11How 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?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. …
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. …
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)We have here justice done upon the murderers of Ish-bosheth. I. Sentence passed upon them. There needed no evidence, their own tongues witnessed against them; they were so far from denying the fact that they gloried in it. David therefore shows them the heinousness of the crime, and that blood called for blood from his hand, who was now the chief magistrate, and was by office the avenger of blood.…
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