2 Samuel 14:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the whole clan confronted your servant and demanded: ‘Give up the one who struck down his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has killed; we must do away with the heir also.’ Thus they will quench my remaining hope and leave my husband neither name nor posterity upon the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 27:45

until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back. Why should I lose both of you in a single day?” Jacob Sent to Laban.

Genesis 4:14

Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.”

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him to get him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them.

2 Samuel 14:6

Your servant had two sons, who quarreled in the field, with no one to part them, and one of them struck his brother and killed him.

2 Samuel 14:8

The king then said to the woman: “Go home. I will issue a command on your behalf.”

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who will kill the murderer, putting the individual to death on sight.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’

Deuteronomy 25:6

The firstborn son she bears shall continue the name of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.