2 Samuel 14:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew’; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 27:45

until your brother's anger turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send, and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground; but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

2 Samuel 14:6

And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled 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 shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Matthew 21:38

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

Deuteronomy 25:6

And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.