2 Samuel 4:11 - Tree of Life Version

¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house and on his bed! Should I not now require his blood from your hands and rid the earth of you?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ How much more–when wicked men have slain a just man in his own house on his bed–shall I not now require his blood of your hand and remove you from the earth!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Common English Bible

¹¹ What do you think I’ll do when evil people kill a righteous person in his own house on his own bed? Why shouldn’t I demand his blood from your hands and rid the earth of you both?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ How much more so now, when impious men have put to death an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your hand, and take you away from the earth?

2 Samuel 4:11 Cross References

Genesis 4:11

So now, cursed are you from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 6:13

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh is coming before Me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Behold, I am about to bring ruin upon them along with the land.

Genesis 7:23

So He wiped out all existence that was upon the surface of the ground, everything from people to livestock, to crawling creatures, and to flying creatures of the sky. They were wiped out off the land. Only Noah and those with him in the ark survived.

2 Samuel 16:8

Adonai has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you’ve reigned. Adonai has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom—so see, your own evil has overtaken you, because you are a man of bloodshed.”

2 Samuel 3:27

Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the groin, so that he died—on account of the blood of his brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 3:39

So today I am vulnerable, even though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me to handle. May Adonai reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

1 Kings 2:32

Thus Adonai will return his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he—Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah—and killed them with the sword, without my father David’s knowledge.

Psalm 109:15

Let their sins be before Adonai continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 9:12

Sing praises to Adonai, who dwells in Zion. Declare His deeds among the peoples.

Exodus 21:12

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies must surely be put to death.

Exodus 9:15

Surely by now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous uprooted from it.

Proverbs 25:26

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous person who yields before the wicked.

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus you will say to them: “The gods—which did not make the heavens and the earth—will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

Habakkuk 1:12

Are not You from antiquity— Adonai my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Adonai, You have ordained him for judgment—as You, O Rock, have established him to chasten.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore, Torah has no effect, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked encircle the righteous Therefore justice comes out perverted.

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, while his brother’s were righteous.