2 Samuel 14:7

Modern English Version

Now the entire family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they will extinguish my remaining ember, and leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 27:45

until your brother’s anger against you turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Genesis 4:14

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from Your face will I be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him to rouse him from the ground, but he was not willing, nor would he consume food with them.

2 Samuel 14:6

Furthermore, your servant had two sons. The two of them were fighting in the field, but there was no one to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

2 Samuel 14:8

Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood himself will slay the murderer. When he meets him, he will slay him.

Matthew 21:38

“But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

Deuteronomy 25:6

It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall continue in the name of his brother who is deceased, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel.