And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; from the hand of every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man; from the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it of you.
But even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;