Genesis 4:14

Cain fears that, driven out and hidden from God's face, anyone who finds him will kill him. It shows the dread and isolation that sin produces.

Cross-references · 24

• Num 35:19The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
• Job 15:20–24A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
• Ps 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
• Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
• 2 Th 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
• Deut 28:65Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
• Matt 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• 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:
• Gen 4:15–16“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
• Num 35:27and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed
• Jer 52:3For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
• Num 35:21or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
• Lev 26:17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
• Num 17:12–13Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
• 2 Sam 14:7Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
• Matt 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
• Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
• Ps 51:11–14Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
• Ps 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Isa 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
• Hos 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
• Lev 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
• Ps 109:12May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

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