Verse 11

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Hvordan kan det være at onde mennesker har drept en rettferdig mann i sitt eget hus, på sin egen seng? Skal jeg ikke kreve blodet hans fra dem og utrydde dem fra jorden?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hvor mye mer når onde menn dreper en rettferdig mann i hans eget hus på hans seng? Skal jeg ikke kreve hans blod fra deres hånd og utrydde dere fra jorden?»

• Norsk King James

  Hvor mye mer, når onde mennesker har drept en uskyldig person i sitt eget hus, på sin egen seng? Hvorfor skulle jeg da ikke kreve hans blod fra deres hånd og ta dere bort fra jorden?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvor mye mer når ugudelige menn har drept en rettferdig mann i hans eget hus, på hans seng? Skal jeg ikke kreve hans blod fra deres hånd og utslette dere fra jorden?'

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Hva skal jeg da gjøre når onde mennesker dreper en rettferdig mann i sitt eget hus på hans seng? Skal jeg ikke kreve hans blod fra dere og utrydde dere fra jorden?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvor mye mer når onde mennesker har drept en rettferdig person i hans eget hus, på hans eget leie. Skal jeg ikke nå krev hans blod av deres hånd og utrydde dere fra jorden?»

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Hvor mye mer, når onde menn har drept en rettferdig person i hans eget hus mens han lå i sengen? Skal jeg ikke derfor nå kreve hans blod av deres hender og fjerne dere fra jorden?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Hvor mye mer når onde mennesker har drept en rettferdig person i hans eget hus, på hans eget leie. Skal jeg ikke nå krev hans blod av deres hånd og utrydde dere fra jorden?»

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hvor mye mer skulle jeg ikke da kreve regnskap av dere, onde menn, som har drept en rettferdig mann i hans eget hus, mens han lå i sengen sin? Skal jeg ikke hevne hans blod på dere og rydde dere bort fra jorden?"

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  How much more, then, when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed! Should I not now demand his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hvor mye mer, når onde menn har drept en rettferdig mann i sitt hjem på sin seng, skal jeg da ikke kreve hans blod av deres hånd og utrydde dere fra jorden?'

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Meget mere (disse) ugudelige Mænd, som have ihjelslaget en retfærdig Mand i hans Huus paa hans Seng; og nu, skulde jeg ikke udkræve hans Blod af eders Haand og borttage eder af Jorden?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hvor mye mer når ugudelige menn har drept en rettferdig mann i hans eget hus, på hans seng? Skal jeg ikke nå kreve hans blod fra dere og utrydde dere fra jorden?»

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hvor mye mer, når ugudelige menn har drept en rettskaffen person i hans eget hus på hans seng, skal jeg nå ikke kreve hans blod av deres hånd, og fjerne dere fra jorden?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hvordan skal jeg da ikke straffe ugjerningen til ugudelige menn som har drept en rettskaffen mann i hans eget hjem, mens han lå i sengen? Krever jeg ikke hans blod fra dere og utrydder dere fra jorden?'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Hvor mye mer når ugudelige menn har drept en rettferdig mann i hans eget hus på hans seng, skulle jeg ikke nå kreve hans blod av deres hånd og utrydde dere fra jorden?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Hvor mye mer, når onde menn har drept en rettskaffen mann, i hans eget hus, når han sov på sengen, vil jeg ta hevn fra dere for hans blod, og utrydde dere fra jorden?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And these vngodly personnes haue slayne a righteous man in his owne house vpon his bed. Yee shulde not I requyre his bloude of youre handes, and take you awaye from ye earth?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  How much more, when wicked men haue slaine a righteous person in his owne house, and vpon his bed? shal I not now therfore require his blood at your hand, and take you from the earth?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Howe much more when wicked men haue slayne a righteous person in his owne house and vpon his bed? Shal I not nowe therfore require his blood of your hande, & take you from the earth?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

• World English Bible (2000)

  How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”

Referenced Verses

• Ps 9:12 : 12 When he avenges blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.
• Gen 9:5-6 : 5 And surely for your blood, the blood of your lives, I will demand an account; at the hand of every beast I will demand it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother I will demand the life of man. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
• Exod 9:15 : 15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you shall be cut off from the earth.
• Exod 21:12 : 12 He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
• Num 35:31-34 : 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. 32 And you shall take no ransom for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. 34 Therefore do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, where I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
• 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
• 2 Sam 3:39 : 39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too harsh for me. The LORD shall reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.
• 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 And the Lord will return his blood upon his own head, who struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing of it: namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
• Gen 4:11 : 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;
• Gen 6:13 : 13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
• Gen 7:23 : 23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed, both man and cattle, creeping things and birds of the sky; they were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
• Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth.
• Prov 2:22 : 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors will be rooted out of it.
• Prov 25:26 : 26 A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.
• Jer 10:11 : 11 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
• Hab 1:4 : 4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
• Hab 1:12 : 12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction.
• 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.