AVENGER OF BLOOD

Passages on this topic · 43

• Genesis 4:14

  Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

• Genesis 4:15

  Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

• Genesis 4:24

  If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”

• Genesis 9:5

  I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

• Genesis 9:6

  Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

• Numbers 35:19

  The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

• Numbers 35:20

  If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

• Numbers 35:21

  or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

• Numbers 35:22

  “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

• Numbers 35:23

  or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

• Numbers 35:24

  then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

• Numbers 35:25

  The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

• Numbers 35:26

  “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

• Numbers 35:27

  and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

• Numbers 35:28

  because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

• Numbers 35:29

  “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live. Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.

• Deuteronomy 19:6

  Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.

• Deuteronomy 19:7

  Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

• Deuteronomy 19:8

  If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

• Deuteronomy 19:9

  if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three.

• Deuteronomy 19:10

  This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

• Deuteronomy 19:11

  But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

• Deuteronomy 19:12

  then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

• Deuteronomy 19:13

  Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

• Joshua 20:1

  Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

• Joshua 20:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

• Joshua 20:3

  that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Joshua 20:4

  He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

• Joshua 20:5

  If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.

• Joshua 20:6

  He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”

• Joshua 20:7

  They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

• Joshua 20:8

  Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 20:9

  These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.

• 2 Samuel 14:4

  When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

• 2 Samuel 14:5

  The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:8

  The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

• 2 Samuel 14:10

  The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”