Quotes About Avenger

he can either directly repeat what was done to him, like Simons, and will then most likely choose victims who represent himself, or he may symbolically avenge his suffering, and will then be more likely to select victims who represent the original tormentor.

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.

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

The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed

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

These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.