2 Kings 24:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
  • Ps 106:38 : 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
  • Jer 15:1-2 : 1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go. 2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.
  • Jer 19:4 : 4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;
  • Lam 3:42 : 42 We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
  • Num 35:33 : 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.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:16-17
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    16 More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

    17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • Jer 19:4
    77%

    4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    76%

    13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

    14 They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • 2 Kgs 24:5
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    5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • Deut 21:8-9
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    74%

    8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

    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.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • 2 Kgs 24:3
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    3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

  • Ezek 24:6-9
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    72%

    6 For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

    7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

    8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

    9 For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.

  • Joel 3:19
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    19 Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

  • Isa 4:4
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    4 When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Deut 19:13
    72%

    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.

  • Jer 15:4
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    4 And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 2:34
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    34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

  • Jer 26:15
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    15 Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.

  • Matt 27:4
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    4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
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    22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

  • Mic 3:10
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    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
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    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.

  • Jer 5:1
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    1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

  • Joel 3:21
    70%

    21 And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.

  • Jer 22:3
    70%

    3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

  • Jer 44:6-7
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    70%

    6 Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

    7 So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • Ezek 9:7
    69%

    7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

  • Isa 1:21
    69%

    21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

  • Jer 4:14
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    14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

  • Ps 94:21
    69%

    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Amos 2:4
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    4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

  • Ezek 9:4
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    4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
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    26 But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
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    11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

  • Dan 9:12
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    12 And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 22:2-3
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    2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.

    3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

  • Isa 26:21
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    21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

  • 2 Kgs 24:20
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    20 And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

  • Ezek 36:18
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    18 So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:

  • Matt 27:24
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    24 So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.