Numbers 35:19

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

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 14:11

Then she said, “May the king remember the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, lest they exterminate my son.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son will fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 14:7

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.”

2 Samuel 3:27

So Abner returned to Hebron, and Joab pulled him aside in the gateway so as to speak with him undisturbed. There he struck him in the midsection so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel, his brother.

2 Samuel 3:30

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

Numbers 35:12

The cities will be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he strikes him with a weapon of wood in hand, by which he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

But if he pushed him out of hatred, or threw something at him, lying in wait, so he dies,

Numbers 35:21

or in hatred struck him with his hand, so he died, he that struck him shall surely be put to death, because he is a murderer. The avenger of blood will slay the murderer when he meets him.

Numbers 35:24

then the assembly will judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments.

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his city must send and fetch him from there, and deliver him to the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise the avenger of blood might, while he is angry, pursue the manslayer and overtake him (because the way is long) and kill him, even though he was not worthy of death (since he did not hate him previously).

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person without intent and unknowingly may flee there. They shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

When the avenger of blood comes after him, they shall not hand over the manslayer to him, for he struck down his neighbor unintentionally with no premeditated malice.

Judges 8:19

He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had allowed them to live, I would not kill you.”