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Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
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Matthew 27:4-5
“ I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.“ What’s that to us?” they said.“ See to it yourself!”So he threw the silver into the sanctuary and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.
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Numbers 35:33
“ Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
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Jonah 1:14
So they called out to the Lord:“ Please, Yahweh, don’t let us perish because of this man’s life, and don’t charge us with innocent blood! For You, Yahweh, have done just as You pleased.”
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Deuteronomy 19:13
You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.
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Deuteronomy 21:1-9
“ If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name, and they are to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.They will declare,‘ Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it.Lord, forgive Your people Israel You redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.’ Then they will be absolved of responsibility for bloodshed.You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.
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1 Kings 2 31
The king said to him,“ Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him in order to remove from me and from my father’s house the blood that Joab shed without just cause.
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Jeremiah 7:6-7
if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.
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Joel 3:19
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah in whose land they shed innocent blood.
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2 Kings 21 16
Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit. Consequently, they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
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2 Kings 24 4
and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.
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Psalms 94:21
They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.