Avenger of Blood
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Avenger of Blood’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–9 of 9 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 9:5 OT
I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. 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.
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Genesis 9:6 OT
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
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Genesis 4:14 OT
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.”
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Genesis 4:15 OT
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.
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Genesis 4:24 OT
If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
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When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!” The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. Your servant had two…
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The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died, or in hostility struck him with…
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This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past— as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to…
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Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall…