2 Samuel 4:11 Cross References - BBE

¹¹ How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

¹¹ And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

⁵ And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. ⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

¹⁵ For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:

¹² He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

³¹ Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death. ³² And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest. ³³ So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it. ³⁴ Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

²⁷ And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

³⁹ While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!

³² And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

¹² When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

¹⁵ Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

²² But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

²⁶ Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

¹¹ This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

⁴ For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

¹² Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

¹² Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.