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2 Samuel 3:39
I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

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Genesis 9:5
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.

Exodus 21:14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Numbers 35:21
or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

Numbers 35:31
“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:32
“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

Numbers 35:33
“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Numbers 35:34
You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”

2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

1 Kings 2:28
This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 2:33
So their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

1 Kings 2:34
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

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Numbers 23:11
Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

2 Samuel 3:8
Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s house, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

2 Samuel 3:11
He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.

2 Samuel 3:36
All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

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Deuteronomy 32:41
if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.

Job 21:19
You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Psalms 54:5
He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

Psalms 62:12
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Revelation 18:6
Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

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1 Samuel 26:8
Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

2 Samuel 10:9
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians.

2 Samuel 10:10
The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10:14
When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 18:2
David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”

2 Samuel 20:6
David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”

2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

2 Samuel 23:18
Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

1 Chronicles 11:20
Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

1 Chronicles 18:12
Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Matthew 8:29
Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

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1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

1 Samuel 30:22
Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart.”

1 Samuel 30:23
Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

1 Samuel 30:24
Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

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2 Samuel 2:19
Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.

2 Samuel 2:20
Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.”

2 Samuel 2:21
Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.

2 Samuel 2:23
However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

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2 Samuel 3:31
David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

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2 Samuel 6:16
As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

1 Chronicles 15:1
David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.

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2 Samuel 13:21
But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab came to the king and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:23
The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.

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2 Samuel 14:13
The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

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2 Samuel 3:23
When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”

2 Samuel 16:7
Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

2 Samuel 16:8
Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

2 Chronicles 19:6
and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Job 34:18
who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

Job 34:19
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.

Psalms 75:10
I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Psalms 101:8
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.

Proverbs 17:26
Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

Proverbs 25:5
Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Micah 5:1
Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

John 18:22
When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

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1 Kings 1:18
Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.

1 Kings 1:19
He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.

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1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

Isaiah 7:4
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

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1 Chronicles 1:10
Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.

1 Chronicles 2:15
Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh;

1 Chronicles 29:1
David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

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Numbers 35:24
then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

2 Samuel 3:26
When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.

2 Samuel 4:12
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

2 Samuel 8:16
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

2 Samuel 17:25
Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 18:5
The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.

2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

1 Kings 1:7
He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

Psalms 7:16
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

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Psalms 101:2
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

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Proverbs 11:21
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

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Proverbs 19:10
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

Ecclesiastes 10:6
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

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Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Luke 9:54
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

Luke 9:55
But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

Luke 9:56
For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

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1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 29:9
Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

Psalms 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Jeremiah 38:5
Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

Ezekiel 17:22
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

John 18:35
Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”

John 19:12
At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

John 19:13
When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

John 19:14
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

John 19:15
They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

John 19:16
So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

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