2 Samuel 4:11
2 Samuel chapter 4 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
KJV
King James Version · 1611How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Context
v.10when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.
v.11This passage
v.12And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.
- Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
- Genesis 4:11
And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
- Genesis 6:13
And 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.
- Genesis 7:23
And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.
- Numbers 35:31
Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.