“Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.”
Numbers 19:16
Open H6440: the face (as the part that turns); accept against anger.
“Cain said to the LORD, ‘My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.’ Then the LORD said to him, ‘Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.’ And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.”
Genesis 4:13-15
Field H7704: to spread out; a field; country; wild.
“…Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field….”
Genesis 25:27
“Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side. O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.”
Jeremiah 6:25-26
“I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”
Jeremiah 13:27
“The Philistine said to David, ‘Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.’”
1 Samuel 17:44
“Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the LORD has spoken it.”
1 Kings 14:11
Touches H5060: lay the hand upon (for any purpose).
“My son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,”
Proverbs 1:15
Sword H2719: drought; a cutting instrument.
“Either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
1 Chronicles 21:12
“For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.”
Isaiah 34:5-6
“Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.”
Jeremiah 12:12
“And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked. Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from south to north. And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.”
Ezekiel 21:3-5
“And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.”
1 Chronicles 21:16
Killed H2492: pierced to death.
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12
“In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.”
Revelation 1:16
Who was killed with a sword includes:
1. Who died naturally H4191: to die; causatively to kill; in no wise. (A blind follower; not only he died, but he became a murderer.)
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”
Hosea 4:6
“Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Matthew 15:14
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”
Matthew 23:15
“And Jesus said to him, ‘Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.’”
Matthew 8:22
2. Or touches a human bone H6106: a bone (as strong); the body. From H6105: to bind fast; close eyes; to be powerful or numerous; break the bones. (Become a tool of killing.)
“And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. And Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.” As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.”
Judges 15:15-17
“Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!”
Isaiah 10:5
“Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.”
Genesis 49:6
3. Or a grave H6913: a sepulcher; burying place. From H6912: to inter; in any wise.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.”
Matthew 23:27
“And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.”
Revelation 18:2
Shall be unclean seven days: shall be unclean forever.