Numbers 35:19

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.*

2 Samuel 14:11

Then said she, Please let the king remember the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

2 Samuel 14:7

Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Aviner was returned to Chevron, Yo'av took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of `Asa'el his brother.

2 Samuel 3:30

So Yo'av and Avishai his brother killed Aviner, because he had killed their brother `Asa'el at Giv`on in the battle.

Numbers 35:12

The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Numbers 35:18

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

Numbers 35:20

If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

Joshua 20:3

that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.

Judges 8:19

He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.