Numbers 35:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

Cross References

Joshua 20:5

And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbour accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.

Joshua 20:3

so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger  might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die,  since he did not previously hate his neighbour.

Numbers 35:21

or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,

Numbers 35:24

the assembly is to judge between the person who kills someone and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

Numbers 35:12

You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger,  so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

Genesis 4:14

Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.’

Numbers 35:18

If anyone has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws an object at him with malicious intent and he dies,

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, “Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will eliminate the heir! ” They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.’

2 Samuel 14:11

She replied, ‘Please, may the king invoke the Lord your God, so that the avenger of blood will not increase the loss, and they will not eliminate my son! ’ ‘As the Lord lives,’ he vowed, ‘not a hair of your son will fall to the ground.’

Judges 8:19

So he said, ‘They were my brothers, the sons of my mother! As the Lord lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.’

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.

2 Samuel 3:30

Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.