2 Samuel 4:11

Translations

Modern

How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

Traditional

How 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?

Literal

…how much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now seek his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”

Latin

Quanto magis nunc cum homines impii interfecerunt virum innoxium in domo sua, super lectum suum, non quæram sanguinem ejus de manu vestra, et auferam vos de terra?

Original

Hebrew

English

How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

Notes

2 Samuel 4:9–11

when someone told me: Compare 2 Samuel 1:1–16.

Theme notes and profiles

Abner David

Events

Reign of David

Related verses

Proverbs 2:22
…but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Psalm 9:12
For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
Genesis 9:5–6
And 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:
Numbers 35:31–34
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
Genesis 7:23
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
Psalm 109:15
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
Proverbs 25:26
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
Exodus 9:15
For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
Jeremiah 10:11
Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

Glossary

Baanah David Furniture Ishbosheth Mephibosheth Rechab Samuel, Books of First and Second

Topics

Assassination: David's Abhorrence of Government: Monarchical by David Homicide: The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderer of Ish-Bosheth Ish-Bosheth: Avenged by David Kings: Often Exercised Power Arbitrarily Rechab: Son of Rimmon: Murders Ish-Bosheth, Son of Saul; Put to Death by David Religious Zeal in Punishing Evil People: David

2 Samuel 4:11

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