2 Kings 24:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to pardon.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and also for the innocent{H5355} blood{H1818} that he shed;{H8210} for he filled{H4390} Jerusalem{H3389} with innocent{H5355} blood:{H1818} and Jehovah{H3068} would{H14} not pardon.{H5545}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And also for the innocent{H5355} blood{H1818} that he shed{H8210}{(H8804)}: for he filled{H4390}{(H8762)} Jerusalem{H3389} with innocent{H5355} blood{H1818}; which the LORD{H3068} would{H14}{(H8804)} not pardon{H5545}{(H8800)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    & because of the innocent bloude that he shed. And he fylled Ierusalem with innocent bloude, therfore wolde not the LORDE be reconcyled.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Ierusalem with innocent blood) therefore the Lord would not pardon it.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And for the innocent blood that he shed, and filled Hierusalem with innocent blood: and the Lorde would not be reconciled.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • Ps 106:38 : 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
  • Jer 15:1-2 : 1 Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.
  • Jer 19:4 : 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
  • Lam 3:42 : 42 We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 21:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

    17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • Jer 19:4
    77%

    4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

  • Lam 4:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

    14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • 2 Kgs 24:5
    75%

    5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • Deut 21:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 Be merciful, O LORD, to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not place innocent blood upon Your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

    9 So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Jer 22:17
    74%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • 2 Kgs 24:3
    73%

    3 Surely at the command of the LORD, this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

  • Ezek 24:6-9
    4 verses
    72%

    6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

    7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust;

    8 That it might cause fury to come up and take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

    9 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pyre large.

  • Joel 3:19
    72%

    19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Isa 4:4
    72%

    4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

  • Deut 19:10
    72%

    10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

  • Deut 19:13
    72%

    13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Jer 15:4
    71%

    4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 2:34
    71%

    34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

  • Ezek 9:9
    71%

    9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

  • Jer 26:15
    71%

    15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

  • Matt 27:4
    70%

    4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
    70%

    22 So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

  • Ps 79:3
    70%

    3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

  • Mic 3:10
    70%

    10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    70%

    31 And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

  • Jer 5:1
    70%

    1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

  • Joel 3:21
    70%

    21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

  • Jer 22:3
    70%

    3 Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Jer 44:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 Therefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

    7 Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Why do you commit this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, to leave you no one to remain;

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    70%

    5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 9:7
    69%

    7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • Isa 1:21
    69%

    21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Jer 4:14
    69%

    14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

  • Ps 94:21
    69%

    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

  • Amos 2:4
    69%

    4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:

  • Ezek 9:4
    69%

    4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in it.

  • Hos 4:2
    69%

    2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
    68%

    26 Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
    68%

    11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?

  • Dan 9:12
    68%

    12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.

  • Ezek 22:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, you shall show her all her abominations.

    3 Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

  • Isa 26:21
    68%

    21 For behold, the LORD comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.

  • 2 Kgs 24:20
    68%

    20 For because of the anger of the LORD, it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

  • Ezek 36:18
    68%

    18 Therefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it:

  • Matt 27:24
    68%

    24 When Pilate saw that he could nothing prevail, but rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See to it yourselves.

  • Hos 6:8
    68%

    8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.