5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: afrom every beast I will require it and from man. bFrom his fellow man I will crequire 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 and avenge!”1
32 The Lord will 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 more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
12 For he who pavenges blood is mindful of them;
qhe does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, 51 from the blood of uAbel to the blood of vZechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
