Numbers 35:19

The Message

“In such cases the avenger has a right to kill the murderer when he meets him—he can kill him on the spot.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:11

“Let the king invoke the name of God,” said the woman, “so this self-styled vigilante won’t ruin everything, to say nothing of killing my son.” “As surely as God lives,” he said, “not so much as a hair of your son’s head will be lost.”

Numbers 35:18

“Or if he’s carrying a wooden club heavy enough to kill and the man dies, that’s murder; he’s a murderer and must be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

“And if out of sheer hatred a man pushes another or from ambush throws something at him and he dies, or angrily hits him with his fist and kills him, that’s murder—he must be put to death. The avenger has a right to kill him when he gets him.

Joshua 20:5

“If the avenger of blood chases after him, they must not give him up—he didn’t intend to kill the person; there was no history of ill-feeling. He may stay in that city until he has stood trial before the congregation and until the death of the current high priest. Then he may go back to his own home in his hometown from which he fled.”

Judges 8:19

Gideon said, “They were my brothers, my mother’s sons. As God lives, if you had let them live, I would let you live.”