2 Samuel 4:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?”

Cross References

Genesis 4:11

And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 7:23

He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord has avenged upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your ruin is on you; for you are a man of blood.”

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 3:39

And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. The Lord requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually; and may his memory be cut off from the earth!

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 21:12

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

Exodus 9:15

For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 25:26

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

Habakkuk 1:12

Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them as a judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established them for chastisement.

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.

1 John 3:12

and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.