Verse 13

Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 2:31 : 31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.
  • Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
  • Deut 21:9 : 9 So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
  • Deut 25:12 : 12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
  • 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
  • 2 Sam 21:14 : 14 And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
  • Lev 24:17 : 17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
  • Lev 24:21 : 21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.
  • Num 35:33-34 : 33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it. 34 Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
  • Deut 13:8 : 8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;
  • Ezek 16:5 : 5 No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.