2Sa 4:11 | NETfull | STEP | 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 4:11

11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ^{▼▼ Heb “on his bed.”} in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ^{▼▼ See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”} you from the earth?”