2 Samuel 17:11-13
17:11 My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba – in number like the sand by the sea! – be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.
17:12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them!
17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”
2 Samuel 17:1
The Death of Ahithophel
17:1 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.
2 Samuel 18:10
18:10 When one of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.
Proverbs 1:16
1:16 for they are eager to inflict harm,
and they hasten to shed blood.
Romans 3:15-16
3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths,