Genesis 42:22
"And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required."
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- 2 Chronicles 24:22
"Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 9:12
"When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 2:32
"And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 37:21
"And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him."
Read in chapter → - Luke 11:50
"That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;"
Read in chapter → - Genesis 9:5
"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."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 3:18
"When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 4:10
"And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground."
Read in chapter → - Luke 23:41
"And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 37:29
"And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes."
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