II Samuel 4:11
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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!”
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For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
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.
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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.