Homicide
126 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
61 sections
- Accidental
- Confinement in the City of Refuge the Punishment For
- David's Repentance For, and Confession of, the Murder of Uriah
- Distinguished from Murder
- Felonious by Cain
- Felonious by Raping
- Felonious of Amon
- Felonious of Joash by his Servants
- Felonious of Sennacherib
- Felonious, or Murder
- Felonious: Abimelech
- Felonious: Abner
- Felonious: Absalom
- Felonious: Ahab and Jezebel
- Felonious: Amaziah's Soldiers
- Felonious: Ammonites
- Felonious: An Amalekite
- Felonious: Athaliah
- Felonious: Baasha
- Felonious: Barabbas
- Felonious: David
- Felonious: Ehud
- Felonious: Hazael
- Felonious: Herod
- Felonious: Herod Antipas
- Felonious: Herod the Great
- Felonious: Ishmael
- Felonious: Jael
- Felonious: Jehoram
- Felonious: Jehu
- Felonious: Joab
- Felonious: Joash
- Felonious: Lamech
- Felonious: Manasseh
- Felonious: Menahem
- Felonious: Moses
- Felonious: Nebuchadnezzar
- Felonious: Pharaoh
- Felonious: Rechab and Baanah
- Felonious: Sanhedrin
- Felonious: Sanhedrin and Pilate
- Felonious: Simeon and Levi
- Felonious: Solomon
- Felonious: Zimri
- Justifiable, Described as Killing a Manslayer by Next of Kin
- Justifiable, Described as Killing a Thief in the Night
- Justifiable, Described as Killing Enemies in Battle
- Justifiable, Described as Killing Persons Condemned by Law
- Protection Afforded in the Cities of Refuge to Those Guilty
- Punishment of
- The Avenger of Blood Might Slay Those Guilty of Unjustifiable
- The Punishment of Murderers: Cain
- The Punishment of Murderers: David
- The Punishment of Murderers: Haman
- The Punishment of Murderers: Joab
- The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderer of Ish-Bosheth
- The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderer of Saul
- The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderers of Joash
- Unjustifiable, Described as Killing by Accident
- Unjustifiable, Described as Killing Without Enmity
- Unjustifiable, Described as Killing Without Lying in Wait
Accidental
- Exodus 21:13 If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Exodus 21:28–32 If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible. …
- Numbers 35:11–15 designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there. …
- Numbers 35:22–28 But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally, …
- Numbers 35:32 Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
- Deuteronomy 4:41–43 Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east …
- Deuteronomy 19:2–10 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. …
- Joshua 20:1–9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, …
Confinement in the City of Refuge the Punishment For
- Numbers 35:25 The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed …
- Numbers 35:28 because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
David's Repentance For, and Confession of, the Murder of Uriah
- Psalm 51:1–17 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. …
Distinguished from Murder
- Exodus 21:13–14 If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee. …
- Numbers 35:16–21 If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. …
- Numbers 35:25 The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed …
Felonious by Cain
- Genesis 4:8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Felonious by Raping
- Judges 19:25–28 But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. …
Felonious of Amon
- 2 Kings 21:23 Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
Felonious of Joash by his Servants
- 2 Kings 12:20–21 And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla. …
Felonious of Sennacherib
- 2 Kings 19:37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
- Isaiah 37:38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Felonious, or Murder
- Genesis 4:9–12 And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” …
- 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: …
- Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
- Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder.
- Exodus 21:29–32 But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death. …
- Numbers 35:16–22 If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. …
- Numbers 35:30–31 If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness. …
- Deuteronomy 5:17 You shall not murder.
- Deuteronomy 17:6 On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Deuteronomy 21:1–9 If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, …
- Deuteronomy 22:8 If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
- Deuteronomy 27:24–25 ‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ …
- 1 Kings 21:19 Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will …
- 2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
- Job 24:1–25 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? …
- Psalm 5:6 You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
- Psalm 9:12 For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalm 10:2 In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalm 26:9–10 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed, …
- Psalm 37:32 Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
- Psalm 38:12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
- Psalm 55:23 But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Psalm 94:3 How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?
- Proverbs 1:11–12 If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, …
- Proverbs 1:15–16 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. …
- Proverbs 6:16–17 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: …
- Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
- Proverbs 28:17 A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
- Isaiah 26:21 For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
- Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
- Jeremiah 2:34 Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
- Jeremiah 7:9–10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, …
- Jeremiah 19:4 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the …
- Jeremiah 22:3 This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- Ezekiel 22:9 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
- Ezekiel 35:6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
- Hosea 1:4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
- Hosea 4:1–3 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! …
- Habakkuk 2:10 You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
- Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
- Matthew 5:21–22 You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ …
- Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- Matthew 19:18 “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
- Mark 7:21 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
- Luke 18:20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
- Romans 13:9 The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Galatians 5:19–21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …
- 1 Timothy 1:9 We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- James 2:11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
- 1 Peter 4:15 Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.
- 1 John 3:12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
- 1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
- Revelation 9:21 Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
- Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Felonious: Abimelech
- Judges 9:5 He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
- Judges 9:18 but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother —
- Judges 9:56 In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
Felonious: Abner
- 2 Samuel 2:18–24 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle, …
Felonious: Absalom
- 2 Samuel 13:22–29 And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar. …
Felonious: Ahab and Jezebel
- 1 Kings 21:10–24 But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” …
- 2 Kings 6:32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? …
Felonious: Amaziah's Soldiers
- 2 Chronicles 25:12 and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
Felonious: Ammonites
- Amos 1:13–15 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory. …
Felonious: An Amalekite
- 2 Samuel 1:16 For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
Felonious: Athaliah
- 2 Kings 11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
Felonious: Baasha
- 1 Kings 15:27–29 Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city. …
Felonious: Barabbas
Felonious: David
- 2 Samuel 11:14–17 The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. …
- 2 Samuel 12:9 Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
Felonious: Ehud
- Judges 3:16–23 Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak …
Felonious: Hazael
- 2 Kings 8:15 But the next day Hazael took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over the king’s face. So Ben-hadad died, and Hazael reigned in his place.
Felonious: Herod
- Acts 12:2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
- Acts 12:19 After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
Felonious: Herod Antipas
- Matthew 14:10 and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.
- Mark 6:27 So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.
Felonious: Herod the Great
- Matthew 2:16 When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
Felonious: Ishmael
- Jeremiah 41:1–7 In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there. …
Felonious: Jael
- Judges 4:21 But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
Felonious: Jehoram
- 2 Chronicles 21:4 When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened himself by putting to the sword all his brothers along with some of the princes of Israel.
Felonious: Jehu
- 2 Kings 9:24–37 Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot. …
- 2 Kings 10:1–25 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying: …
Felonious: Joab
- 2 Samuel 3:24–27 So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away! …
- 2 Samuel 20:9–10 “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him. …
- 1 Kings 2:5 Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me— what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with …
Felonious: Joash
- 2 Chronicles 24:21 But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
Felonious: Lamech
- Genesis 4:23–24 Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. …
Felonious: Manasseh
- 2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 24:4 and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
Felonious: Menahem
- 2 Kings 15:16 At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
Felonious: Moses
- Exodus 2:12 After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
Felonious: Nebuchadnezzar
- Jeremiah 39:6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.
Felonious: Pharaoh
- Exodus 1:16 “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
- Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
Felonious: Rechab and Baanah
- 2 Samuel 4:5–8 Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap. …
Felonious: Sanhedrin
- Acts 7:54–60 On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him. …
Felonious: Sanhedrin and Pilate
- Matthew 26:1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, He told His disciples,
- Matthew 27:1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
Felonious: Simeon and Levi
- Genesis 34:25–31 Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male. …
Felonious: Solomon
- 1 Kings 2:23–46 Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life. …
Felonious: Zimri
- 1 Kings 16:9–11 However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. …
Justifiable, Described as Killing a Manslayer by Next of Kin
- Numbers 35:27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
Justifiable, Described as Killing a Thief in the Night
- Exodus 22:2 If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
Justifiable, Described as Killing Enemies in Battle
- Numbers 31:7–8 Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. …
Justifiable, Described as Killing Persons Condemned by Law
- Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Exodus 35:2 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
Protection Afforded in the Cities of Refuge to Those Guilty
- Numbers 35:11 designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:15 These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Punishment of
- Genesis 4:13–15 But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. …
- 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: …
- Genesis 27:43–45 So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran. …
- Exodus 21:12 Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:14 But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:17 And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:16–21 If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. …
- Numbers 35:30–33 If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness. …
- Deuteronomy 19:11–13 If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities, …
- 2 Samuel 12:9–12 Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. …
The Avenger of Blood Might Slay Those Guilty of Unjustifiable
- Numbers 35:19 The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
- Numbers 35:27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
The Punishment of Murderers: Cain
- Genesis 4:11–15 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. …
The Punishment of Murderers: David
- 2 Samuel 12:9–10 Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. …
The Punishment of Murderers: Haman
- Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
The Punishment of Murderers: Joab
- 1 Kings 2:31–34 And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed. …
The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderer of Ish-Bosheth
- 2 Samuel 4:11–12 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!” …
The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderer of Saul
- 2 Samuel 1:15–16 Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died. …
The Punishment of Murderers: The Murderers of Joash
- 2 Kings 14:5 As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
Unjustifiable, Described as Killing by Accident
- Numbers 35:23 or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
- Deuteronomy 19:5 If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
Unjustifiable, Described as Killing Without Enmity
- Numbers 35:22 But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
Unjustifiable, Described as Killing Without Lying in Wait
- Exodus 21:13 If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Numbers 35:22 But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.