Numbers 35:19

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

A member of the dead person’s family can chase you and kill you.

Cross References

Joshua 20:5

If someone chases you and follows you to that city, the leaders of the city must not give you up. They must protect you because you came to them for safety after killing someone by accident—you were not angry and did not plan to kill the person. It was something that just happened.

Joshua 20:3

Anyone who kills someone accidentally can go to a city of safety to hide from the relatives who want to kill him.

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders in his hometown must send someone to get him and take him away from the city of safety. These leaders must hand him over to the close relative. He is a murderer and he must die.

Deuteronomy 19:6

But if the city is too far away, he might not be able to run there fast enough. A close relative of the person he killed might run after him and catch him before he reaches the city. The relative might kill the man in anger, even though he did not deserve to die because he did not mean to harm anyone.

Numbers 35:24

If that happens, the community must decide what to do. The court must decide if a member of the dead person’s family can kill you.

Numbers 35:12

That person will be safe from anyone from the dead man’s family who wants to punish the killer until that person is judged in court.

Genesis 4:14

You are forcing me to leave the land, and I will not be able to be near you or have a home! Now I must wander from place to place, and anyone I meet could kill me.”

Numbers 35:18

If you use a piece of wood large enough to kill someone and you kill another person, you are a murderer, and you must die.

Numbers 35:20

“You might hit someone with your hand or push someone or throw something at them and kill them. If you did that from hate, you are a murderer, and you must be killed. A member of the dead person’s family can chase you and kill you.

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole family is against me. They said to me, ‘Bring us the son who killed his brother and we will kill him, because he killed his brother.’ My son is like the last spark of a fire. If they kill my son, that fire will burn out and be finished. He is the only son left alive to get his father’s property. So my dead husband’s property will go to someone else and his name will be removed from the land.”

2 Samuel 14:11

The woman said, “Please, use the name of the Lord your God and swear that you will stop these people. They want to punish my son for murdering his brother. Swear that you will not let them destroy my son.” David said, “As the Lord lives, no one will hurt your son. Not even one hair from your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

Judges 8:19

Gideon said, “Those men were my brothers, my mother’s sons! As the Lord lives, if you had not killed them, I would not kill you now.”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner arrived at Hebron, Joab met him in the gateway, pulled him aside to talk in private, and then stabbed him in the stomach. So he got his revenge against Abner. Joab killed Abner because Abner had killed Joab’s brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 3:30

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