2 Samuel 16:7-8
16:7 As he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man!
16:8 The
Lord has punished you for
all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the
Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”
2 Samuel 1:16
1:16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying ‘I have put the
Lord’s anointed to death.’”
2 Samuel 1:22
1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of warriors,
the bow of Jonathan was not turned away.
The sword of Saul never returned empty.
2 Samuel 3:28
3:28 When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!
2 Samuel 23:17
23:17 and said, “O
Lord, I will not do this!
It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.”
So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.
2 Samuel 3:27
3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him
in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 4:11
4:11 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?”
2 Samuel 14:11
14:11 She replied, “In that case,
let the king invoke the name of
the
Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the
Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head
will fall to the ground.”
2 Samuel 20:12
20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa
stopped, the man
pulled him
away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.
2 Samuel 21:1
The Gibeonites Demand Revenge
21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”