Exodus 21:14
If someone murders his neighbor with deliberation, by lying in wait, you shall tear him away from my altar, so that he may die.
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In Context
15Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.
Cross References
Numbers 35:20If, out of hatred, anyone assaults a man, or throws anything at him with ill intent,
Deuteronomy 17:12But whoever will be arrogant, unwilling to obey the order of the priest who ministers at that time to the Lord your God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die. And so shall you take away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 19:11But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,
Deuteronomy 27:24Cursed be he who secretly strikes down his neighbor. And all the people shall say: Amen.
2 Samuel 20:9Then Joab said to Amasa, “Be well, my brother.” And he held Amasa by the chin with his right hand, as if to kiss him.
1 Kings 2:28And the news came to Joab, for Joab had turned aside after Adonijah, and he had not turned aside after Solomon. And so, Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and he took hold of the horn of the altar.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:13-22
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to… Read the whole commentary →