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 And Reuben answered them, ^g“Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? ^hBut you did not listen. So now there comes a ⁱreckoning for his blood.”

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

6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, ^ebut his blood I will ^frequire at the watchman’s hand.