Quotes About Accountability

“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.

and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.

Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,

If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant

and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,

you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.