2 Samuel 4:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ’

Cross References

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain,  who was of the evil one  and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

Habakkuk 1:12

Are you not from eternity, Lord  my God? My Holy One,  you   will not die. Lord, you appointed them to execute judgement; my Rock,  you destined them to punish us.

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict  the righteous; therefore, justice  comes out perverted.

Jeremiah 10:11

You are to say this to them: ‘The gods that did not make the heavens  and the earth will perish from the earth  and from under these heavens.’

Proverbs 25:26

A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous ripped out of it.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner  son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa  son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

2 Samuel 3:39

As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me.  May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil! ’

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel,  Joab’s brother.

Exodus 21:12

‘Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

Exodus 9:15

By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.

Genesis 7:23

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 6:13

Then God said to Noah, ‘I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Genesis 4:11

So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you became king, and the Lord has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. Look, you are in trouble because you’re a man of bloodshed! ’