Quotes about Retribution
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
- Genesis 9:5
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Genesis 9:6
And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
- Genesis 19:11
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- Genesis 34:25
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
- Genesis 34:26
Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
- Genesis 34:27
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- Genesis 39:19
So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,
- Genesis 42:17
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
- Exodus 2:12
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:12
If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Exodus 21:13
But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
- Exodus 21:14