Numbers 35:19

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

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 14:11

But she said, “Please, let the king remember the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood may not go too far in destruction and that my son may not be done away with.” He replied, “As the Lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 14:7

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.”

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.

2 Samuel 3:30

Joab and Abishai his brother had been lying in wait for Abner because he killed Asahel their brother in battle at Gibeon. David Mourns Abner.

Numbers 35:12

These cities will serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide will not be put to death until tried before the community.

Numbers 35:18

Or if someone strikes another with a death-dealing club in the hand and death results, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

If someone pushes another out of hatred, or throws something from an ambush, and death results,

Numbers 35:21

or strikes another with the hand out of enmity and death results, the assailant must be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood will kill the murderer on sight.

Numbers 35:24

then the community will judge between the assailant and the avenger of blood in accordance with these norms.

Numbers 35:27

and is found by the avenger of blood beyond the bounds of the city of asylum, and the avenger of blood kills the homicide, the avenger incurs no bloodguilt;

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of the killer’s own city shall send and have the killer taken from there, to be handed over to the avenger of blood and slain.

Deuteronomy 19:6

Should the distance be too great, the avenger of blood might in hot anger pursue, overtake, and strike the killer dead, even though that one does not deserve the death penalty since there had been no previous hatred;

Joshua 20:3

to which anyone guilty of inadvertent and unintentional homicide may flee for asylum from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

Though the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver up to him the one who killed a neighbor unintentionally, when there had been no hatred previously.

Judges 8:19

“They were my brothers, my mother’s sons,” he said. “As the Lord lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.”