Genesis 9:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And surely for your lifeblood I will require an accounting; from every beast I will require it; and from man, from every man [who spills another's lifeblood] I will require a reckoning.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, Did I not tell you, Do not sin against the boy, and you would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is required [of us].

2 Samuel 4:11

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!

1 Kings 2:6

Do therefore according to your wisdom, but let not his hoary head go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

WHEN ATHALIAH the mother of [King] Ahaziah [of Judah] saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal descendants.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had done him, but slew his son. And when [Zechariah the priest] was dying, he said, May the Lord see and avenge!

2 Chronicles 33:24

And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.

2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his stead.

Psalm 9:12

For He Who avenges the blood [of His people shed unjustly] remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted (the poor and the humble).

Exodus 20:13

You shall not commit murder.

Exodus 21:12

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

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip and scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

He who kills a beast shall replace it; he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in his hand, by which one may die, and he died, the offender is a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

Or in enmity struck him down with his hand so that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

Matthew 23:35

So that upon your heads may come all the blood of the righteous (those who correspond to the divine standard of right) shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar [of burnt offering]. [Gen. 4:8; II Chron. 24:21.]

Acts 17:26

And He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and abodes),

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and attacks him and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the assailant flees into one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech which he had done to his father [Gideon] by slaying his seventy brothers;