Genesis 9:5

New International Version

And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

1 Kings 2:6

Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

2 Kings 11:1

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.

2 Chronicles 24:22

King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.”

2 Chronicles 33:24

Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.

2 Chronicles 33:25

Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Exodus 21:12

“Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

“ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 24:17

“ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:16

“ ‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:21

or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Acts 17:26

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12

the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.

Judges 9:56

Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.