2 Samuel 4:11

David reasons that murdering a righteous man in his own bed deserves far greater punishment. He vows to require Ishbosheth's blood from their hands.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 9:12For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
• Prov 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
• Gen 9:5–6And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
• Num 35:31–34You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
• Jer 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
• Gen 7:23And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
• Hab 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
• Gen 4:11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
• Gen 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
• Exod 9:15For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
• 2 Sam 3:27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
• Exod 21:12Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
• Prov 25:26Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
• 1 Jn 3:12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
• 1 Kgs 2:32The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
• Ps 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
• 2 Sam 3:39And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”

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