Gen 4:10, 9:5-6, 1Ki 2:32, 2Ch 24:22, Psa 9:12, Eze 3:18, Luk 11:50-51 | ESV | STEP | And the Lord said , What have you done ? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground .

p[See ver. 17 above]

q ch. 18:18; Jer. 31:30; [John 8:21, 24]

s ver. 20; ch. 33:6, 8; 34:10; [ch. 18:13; Acts 18:6; 20:26]

t Rev. 18:24

uSee Matt. 13:35

v Gen. 42:22; 2 Chr. 24:22; Ezek. 3:18

w Gen. 4:4, 8; Heb. 11:4; 1 John 3:12

x 2 Chr. 24:20, 21

y Ex. 40:6; 2 Kgs. 16:14; Ezek. 40:47

z[See ver. 50 above]

Genesis 4:10

10 And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood ^ais crying to me from the ground.

Genesis 9:5-6

5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: ^bfrom every beast I will require it and ^cfrom man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

6 ^d“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
^efor God made man in his own image.

1 Kings 2:32

32 The Lord will ^fbring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men ^gmore righteous and better than himself, ^hAbner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and ⁱAmasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:22

22 Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see ^jand avenge!” ^{▼▼Hebrew and seek}

Psalms 9:12

12 For he who ^lavenges blood is mindful of them;
he ^mdoes not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Ezekiel 3:18

18 ⁿIf I say to the wicked, ^o‘You shall surely die,’ ^pand you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person ^qshall die for ^{▼▼Or in; also verses 19, 20} his iniquity, ^sbut his blood I will require at your hand.

Luke 11:50-51

50 so that ^tthe blood of all the prophets, shed ^ufrom the foundation of the world, may be ^vcharged against this generation, 51 from the blood of ^wAbel to the blood of ^xZechariah, who perished between ^ythe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^zrequired of this generation.