TOPICAL BIBLE
Avenger Of Blood
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Genesis 4:14lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been—every one finding me doth slay me.’Genesis 4:15And Jehovah saith to him, ‘Therefore—of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;’ and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.Genesis 4:24For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.’Genesis 9:5‘And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;Genesis 9:6whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.Numbers 35:19‘The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.Numbers 35:20And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;Numbers 35:21or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.Numbers 35:22‘And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;Numbers 35:23or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth it to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he is not his enemy, nor seeking his evil;Numbers 35:24then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.Numbers 35:25‘And the company have delivered the man-slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the company have caused him to turn back unto the city of his refuge, whither he hath fled, and he hath dwelt in it till the death of the chief priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.Numbers 35:26And if the man-slayer at all go out from the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,Numbers 35:27and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him;Numbers 35:28for in the city of his refuge he doth dwell till the death of the chief priest; and after the death of the chief priest doth the man-slayer turn back unto the city of his possession.Numbers 35:29‘And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:Deuteronomy 19:4And this is the matter of the man-slayer who fleeth thither, and hath lived: He who smiteth his neighbour unknowingly, and is not hating him heretofore,Deuteronomy 19:5even he who cometh in with his neighbour into a forest to hew wood, and his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, and the iron hath slipped from the wood, and hath met his neighbour, and he hath died—he doth flee unto one of these cities, and hath lived,Deuteronomy 19:6lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him—the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;Deuteronomy 19:7therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.Deuteronomy 19:8‘And if Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy fathers—Deuteronomy 19:9when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days—then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three;Deuteronomy 19:10and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.Deuteronomy 19:11‘And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him—the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities,Deuteronomy 19:12then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;Deuteronomy 19:13thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.Joshua 20:1And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,Joshua 20:2‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Give for you cities of refuge, as I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses,Joshua 20:3for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.Joshua 20:4When one hath fled unto one of these cities, and hath stood at the opening of the gate of the city, and hath spoken in the ears of the elders of that city his matter, then they have gathered him into the city unto them, and have given to him a place, and he hath dwelt with them.Joshua 20:5‘And when the redeemer of blood doth pursue after him, then they do not shut up the man-slayer into his hand, for without knowledge he hath smitten his neighbour, and is not hating him hitherto;Joshua 20:6and he hath dwelt in that city till his standing before the company for judgment, till the death of the chief priest who is in those days—then doth the man-slayer turn back and hath come unto his city, and unto his house, unto the city whence he fled.’Joshua 20:7And they sanctify Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba (it is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah;Joshua 20:8and beyond the Jordan, at Jericho eastward, they have given Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.Joshua 20:9These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting life inadvertently, and he doth not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood till his standing before the company.2 Samuel 14:4And the woman of Tekoah speaketh unto the king, and falleth on her face to the earth, and doth obeisance, and saith, ‘Save, O king.’2 Samuel 14:5And the king saith to her, ‘What—to thee?’ and she saith, ‘Truly a widow woman am I, and my husband dieth,2 Samuel 14:6and thy maid-servant hath two sons; and they strive both of them in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and the one smiteth the other, and putteth him to death;2 Samuel 14:7and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left—so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.’2 Samuel 14:8And the king saith unto the woman, ‘Go to thine house, and I give charge concerning thee.’2 Samuel 14:9And the woman of Tekoah saith unto the king, ‘On me, my lord, O king, is the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne are innocent.’2 Samuel 14:10And the king saith, ‘He who speaketh aught unto thee, and thou hast brought him unto me, then he doth not add any more to come against thee.’2 Samuel 14:11And she saith, ‘Let, I pray thee, the king remember by Jehovah thy God, that the redeemer of blood add not to destroy, and they destroy not my son;’ and he saith, ‘Jehovah liveth; if there doth fall of the hair of thy son to the earth.’
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