He who avenged the blood of one who had been killed. The nearest relative of the deceased became the authorized avenger of blood. (Numbers 35:19) The law of retaliation was not to extend beyond the immediate offender. (24:16; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Chronicles 25:4; Jeremiah 31:29,30; Ezekiel 18:20)

Rom. xiii. 1
... "For he is the minister of God to execute wrath, a revenger upon him ... of an iujured
and despised lover, and says, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto ...
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Antichrist in the Psalms
... another of his opponents will fall before him: through a sea of blood will he ... 2).
The Enemy and the Avenger, more literally "the Foe and the Revenger," are two ...
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Of Civil Government.
... hurt or destroy," how can magistrates be at once pious and yet shedders of blood? ...
in vain," says Paul, "for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute ...
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Letter Lxxxvii. (AD 405. )
... I wonder if the man who does not blush at such pretensions has any blood in his
body ... not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute ...
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Rejection of Christianity.
... What knew they of grace, of redemption, of justification, of the blood of Christ
shed ... the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute ...
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John Bunyan on the Terms of Communion and Fellowship of Christians ...
... of the children of Israel' (Deuteronomy 32:8), for as he 'made of one blood all
nations ... the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute ...
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Luther -- the Method and Fruits of Justification
... plainly that God is not a favorable Father, but a wrathful revenger of sins ... not rest
until they slay their righteous brother Abel, wherefore the blood of Christ ...
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English Version of the Second Helvetic Confession, AD 1566.
... be understood that God does it by just judgment, as a just judge and revenger. ... we
are fed in his Church, oftentimes, with his flesh and blood, unto everlasting ...
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A vindication of Gospel Truths Opened,
... And indeed I may say of these, as our Lord said of the Pharisees in another case,
all the blood of the ignorant, from the beginning of the world, shall be laid ...
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The Acceptable Sacrifice;
... not able to give better satisfaction for breaking God's laws, than by breaking our
own hearts; this is all that we can do of that kind; for the blood of Christ ...
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