“You shall not murder.

“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.

“‘You shall not murder.

Atonement for Unsolved Murders

“If in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,

But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,

And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.

Joab Murders Abner

When Joab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.

Ish-bosheth Murdered

When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.

Absalom Murders Amnon

After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”

Hazael Murders Ben-hadad

Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”

And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?”

But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

The Unfaithful City

How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,