Numbers 35:20

World English Bible (2000)

If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

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  • Exod 21:14 : 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.
  • Deut 19:11 : 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
  • 2 Sam 20:10 : 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 after Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • Gen 4:8 : 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst 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 Sam 13:22 : 22 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
  • 2 Sam 13:28-29 : 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!" 29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
  • Gen 4:5 : 5 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6 : 5 "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
  • 1 Kgs 2:31-33 : 31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. 33 So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever. But to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from Yahweh."
  • Ps 10:7-9 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. 10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
  • Ps 11:2 : 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
  • Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
  • Ps 57:4-6 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth! 6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.
  • Prov 1:18-19 : 18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
  • Prov 26:24 : 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
  • Mark 6:19 : 19 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,
  • Mark 6:24-26 : 24 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer." 25 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter." 26 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
  • Luke 4:29 : 29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
  • Acts 20:3 : 3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
  • Acts 23:21 : 21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
  • 1 Sam 18:10-11 : 10 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; 11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.
  • 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
  • 1 Sam 19:9-9 : 9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. 10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.
  • 1 Sam 20:1 : 1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
  • 1 Sam 23:7-9 : 7 It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars." 8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. 9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."
  • 1 Sam 24:11 : 11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

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  • Num 35:21-28
    8 verses
    91%

    21or in enmity 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.

    22"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

    23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

    24then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

    25and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

    26"'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

    27and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

    28because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

  • Num 35:15-19
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    87%

    15For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

    16"'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

  • Deut 19:11-12
    2 verses
    83%

    11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

    12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

  • Josh 20:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.

    6He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'"

  • Deut 19:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;

    5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

    6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

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

    15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Lev 24:17
    75%

    17"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30"'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

    31"'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Josh 20:3
    74%

    3that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

  • Deut 4:42
    74%

    42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

  • Exod 21:18
    74%

    18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

    12The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

  • Prov 28:17
    73%

    17A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

  • Deut 13:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

    10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

  • Exod 22:2
    72%

    2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Josh 20:9
    72%

    9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.

  • Deut 21:1
    72%

    1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

  • Deut 19:19
    71%

    19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Exod 21:23
    71%

    23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

  • 1 Kgs 20:37
    71%

    37Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

  • Ezek 35:5-6
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    5Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

    6therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    71%

    15David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

  • Lev 24:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Prov 26:18
    70%

    18Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Lev 20:4
    70%

    4If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;