2 Samuel 4:11

New American Bible - revised edition

How much more now, when wicked men have slain an innocent man in bed at home, must I require his blood from you and purge you from the land!”

Cross References

Psalm 9:12

Sing hymns to the Lord enthroned on Zion; proclaim his deeds among the nations!

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

Habakkuk 1:12

Are you not from of old, O Lord, my holy God, immortal? Lord, you have appointed them for judgment, O Rock, you have set them in place to punish!

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is numb and justice never comes, For the wicked surround the just; this is why justice comes forth perverted.

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus shall you say of them: The gods that did not make heaven and earth—let these perish from earth and from beneath heaven!

Proverbs 25:26

A trampled fountain or a polluted spring— a just person fallen before the wicked.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it.

Psalm 109:15

May their guilt be always before the Lord, till their memory is banished from the earth,

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring blood upon his own head, because he struck down two men better and more just than himself, and slew them with the sword without my father David’s knowledge: Abner, son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa, son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

2 Samuel 3:39

Although I am the anointed king, I am weak this day, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too ruthless for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer in accordance with his evil deed.”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the city gate to speak with him privately. There he stabbed him in the abdomen, and he died for the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

Exodus 21:12

Whoever strikes someone a mortal blow must be put to death.

Exodus 9:15

For by now I should have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with such pestilence that you would have vanished from the earth.

Genesis 7:23

The Lord wiped out every being on earth: human beings and animals, the crawling things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.

Genesis 6:13

God said to Noah: I see that the end of all mortals has come, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I am going to destroy them with the earth. Preparation for the Flood.

Genesis 4:11

Now you are banned from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord has paid you back for all the blood shed from the family of Saul, whom you replaced as king, and the Lord has handed over the kingdom to your son Absalom. And now look at you: you suffer ruin because you are a man of blood.”