“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, ¹  he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian ¹  is a murderer, ²  and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing ³  in him.

Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

But you rejected ¹  the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

The avenger ¹  of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker. ¹ 

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

When Jehu came through the gate, she said, “Is everything all right, Zimri, murderer of his master?” ¹ 

or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

When the local people ¹  saw the creature hanging from Paul’s ²  hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself ³  has not allowed him to live!” ⁴ 

“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony ¹  of witnesses; but one witness cannot ²  testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

You people ¹  are from ²  your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. ³  He ⁴  was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, ⁵  because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, ⁶  he speaks according to his own nature, ⁷  because he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁸ 

Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. ¹  The king ²  sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, ³  Elisha ⁴  said to the leaders, ⁵  “Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?” ⁶  Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.” ⁷ 

As he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man! ¹ 

The one who is tormented ¹  by the murder ²  of another will flee to the pit; ³  let no one support him.

Just as lion cubs are born predators, ¹  so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ¹  to die.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,