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 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 1 in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. 2
2 Samuel 4:11
4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept 3 in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove 4 you from the earth?”
2 Samuel 19:13
19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? 5 God will punish me severely, 6 if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
2 Samuel 23:17
23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! 7 It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” 8 So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. 9
1 tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”
2 tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”
3 tn Heb “on his bed.”
4 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”
5 tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”
6 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
7 tn Heb “Far be it to me, O Lord, from doing this.”
8 tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”
9 tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”