⁵ And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: ^(A)from every beast I will require it and ^(B)from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

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 ^(A)and avenge!”^[a]

³² The Lord will ^(A)bring 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 ^(B)more righteous and better than himself, ^(C)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and ^(D)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

⁵⁰ so that ^(A)the blood of all the prophets, shed ^(B)from the foundation of the world, may be ^(C)charged against this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of ^(D)Abel to the blood of ^(E)Zechariah, who perished between ^(F)the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^(G)required of this generation.