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 9:12When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
• Prov 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
• Gen 9:5–6And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
• Num 35:31–34Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
• Jer 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
• Gen 7:23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
• Hab 1:12Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
• Gen 4:11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
• Gen 6:13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
• Exod 9:15For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
• 2 Sam 3:27And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
• Exod 21:12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
• Prov 25:26A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
• 1 Jn 3:12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
• 1 Kgs 2:32And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
• Ps 109:15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
• 2 Sam 3:39And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

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