Proverbs 28:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
  • Exod 21:14 : 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.
  • Num 35:14-34 : 14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge. 15 These six cities shall be a refuge, [both] for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. 16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or [if] he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. 20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die; 21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him. 22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, 23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm: 24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments: 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; 27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood: 28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. 29 So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person [to cause him] to die. 31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are]: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
  • 1 Kgs 21:23 : 23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
  • 2 Kgs 9:26 : 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 24:21-25 : 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it]. 23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. 25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? see thou [to that]. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the barbarians saw the [venomous] beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 19:10-13
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    74%

    10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood be upon thee.

    11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

    13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

  • Lev 24:17
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    17And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 28:16
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    16¶ The prince that wanteth understanding [is] also a great oppressor: [but] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days.

  • Deut 19:5-6
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    5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

    6Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

  • Num 35:19-23
    5 verses
    73%

    19The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

    20But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

    21Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

    22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

    23Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

  • Exod 21:12-14
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    12¶ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

    13And 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.

    14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

  • Prov 28:18
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    18¶ Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways shall fall at once.

  • Ezek 18:18
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    18[As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Ps 140:11
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    11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him].

  • Num 35:27
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    27And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

  • Prov 1:16
    72%

    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Josh 20:5
    72%

    5And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

  • Prov 29:10
    72%

    10¶ The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

  • Gen 9:6
    72%

    6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

  • Prov 1:11
    71%

    11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • Prov 16:29
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    29¶ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.

  • Job 16:18
    71%

    18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

  • Josh 20:3
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    3That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and] unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

  • Deut 19:20
    71%

    20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.

  • Prov 26:27
    71%

    27¶ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

  • Job 33:18
    71%

    18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Ezek 18:10
    71%

    10¶ If he beget a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] doeth the like to [any] one of these [things],

  • Lev 17:4
    71%

    4And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

  • Prov 1:18
    71%

    18And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • Josh 2:19
    70%

    19And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.

  • Mic 7:2
    70%

    2The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

  • Num 35:17
    70%

    17And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Ezek 18:13
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    13Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10¶ Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22¶ An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Ps 5:6
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    6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 7:16
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    16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

  • Prov 14:17
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    17¶ [He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.