Blood Avenging
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....
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Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy
God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to
destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As]
the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to
the earth....
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Premosaic
Ge 9:5,6
-Cain fears
Ge 4:14,15
-Lamech fears
Ge 4:24
-Law concerning, set aside. by David
2Sa 14:4-11
-See HOMICIDE
-FIGURATIVE
-SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Ge 9:5,6; Nu 35:19-29; De 19:4-13; Jos 20:1-9...
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He who avenged the blood of one who had been killed. The
nearest relative of the deceased became the authorized avenger
of blood. Nu 35:19 The law of retaliation was not to extend
beyond the immediate offender. De 24:16 2Ki 14:6; 2Ch 25:4;
Jer 31:29,30; Eze 18:20...
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(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, "to be near of kin," "to
redeem"),
the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was
his right and
duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he
found him
outside of a city of refuge. In order that this law
might be
guarded against abuse, Moses appointed six cities of
refuge (Ex.
21:13; Num. 35:13; Deut. 19...
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THE AVENGING OF BLOOD by the nearest kinsman of the deceased was a usage from the earliest historical times (Genesis 9:5-6; Genesis 34:30; 2 Samuel 14:7). Among the Bedouin Arabs the thar, or law of blood, comes into effect if the offer of money satisfaction be refused. So among the Anglo-Saxons the wer-gild, or money satisfaction for homicide, var...
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man....
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And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him....
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If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold....
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a-venj' a-venj'-er: Avenge.--The general idea connected with
this word is that of inflicting punishment upon the
wrongdoer. Since emphasis may be placed upon the deed
itself, the wrongdoer, or the injured party, the verb is
found an intransitive (only Lev 19:18; see below),
transitive (2 Sam 4:8 et al.); and also active (Dt 32:43),
pass...
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