2 Samuel 14:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.’ Thus they would quench my one remaining ember and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 27:45

until your brother’s anger against you turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Genesis 4:14

Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.”

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

2 Samuel 14:6

Your servant had two sons, and they fought with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

2 Samuel 14:8

Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who shall put the murderer to death; when they meet, the avenger of blood shall execute the sentence.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’

Deuteronomy 25:6

and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.