When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel, Joab’s brother.
Exodus 21:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If a person schemes and wilfully acts against his neighbour to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if a man comes willfully upon another to slay him craftily, you shall take him from My altar [to which he may have fled for protection], that he may die. American Standard Version (1901) And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. Common English Bible But if someone plots and kills another person on purpose, you should remove the killer from my altar and put him to death. Catholic Public Domain Version If someone murders his neighbor with deliberation, by lying in wait, you shall tear him away from my altar, so that he may die. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die. |
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel, Joab’s brother.
Then the priest Jehoiada ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, ‘Take her out between the ranks, and put to death by the sword anyone who follows her,’ for the priest had said, ‘She is not to be put to death in the Lord’s temple.’
Someone burdened by bloodguilt will be a fugitive until death. Let no one help him.
‘If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.
So I spoke to you, but you didn’t listen. You rebelled against the Lord’s command and defiantly went up into the hill country.
When a prophet speaks in the Lord’s name, and the message does not come true or is not fulfilled, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
“The one who secretly kills his neighbour is cursed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”
For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones;