Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
2 Samuel 4:11 - Y'all Version Bible How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from y’all’s hand, and rid the earth of y’all?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How much more–when wicked men have slain a just man in his own house on his bed–shall I not now require his blood of your hand and remove you from the earth! American Standard Version (1901) How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? Common English Bible What do you think I’ll do when evil people kill a righteous person in his own house on his own bed? Why shouldn’t I demand his blood from your hands and rid the earth of you both?” Catholic Public Domain Version How much more so now, when impious men have put to death an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand, and take you away from the earth?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your hand, and take you away from the earth? |
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Watch, I will destroy them and the earth.
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including humans, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
YHWH has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! YHWH has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Look, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.
I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May YHWH reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
YHWH will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
Let them be before YHWH continually, that ʜᴇ may cut off their memory from the earth;
For the one who avenges blood remembers them. Hᴇ does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, is a righteous person who yields to the wicked.
“Y’all are to tell them this: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
Aren’t you from everlasting, YHWH my God, my Holy One? You will never die. YHWH, you have appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous, so justice comes out perverted.
unlike Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.