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 revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
• Job 15:20–24The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
• Ps 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
• Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
• 2 Th 1:9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• Deut 28:65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
• Matt 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• 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.
• Gen 4:15–16And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
• Num 35:27And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
• Jer 52:3For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
• Num 35:21Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
• Lev 26:17And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
• Num 17:12–13And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
• 2 Sam 14:7And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
• Matt 25:41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Job 21:14–15Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
• Ps 51:11–14Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
• Ps 109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• Isa 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
• Hos 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
• Lev 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
• Ps 109:12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

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