Deuteronomy 21:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Jonah 1:14 : 14 Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.
  • Matt 23:35 : 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
  • Num 35:33-34 : 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. 34 Therefore do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, where I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 3:28 : 28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
  • Jer 26:15 : 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.
  • Ezek 23:3 : 3 And they committed harlotry in Egypt; they committed harlotry in their youth: there their breasts were pressed, and there they bruised the nipples of their virginity.
  • Ezek 23:24-25 : 24 And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet all around: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

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  • Deut 21:9
    84%

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

  • Deut 21:7
    79%

    7And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

  • Deut 19:13
    77%

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

  • Deut 19:10
    75%

    10That 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:50
    74%

    50And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

  • Num 14:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

    20And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
    74%

    4And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

  • 1 Kgs 8:33-34
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    74%

    33When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:

    34Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again into the land which you gave to their fathers.

  • Num 35:33
    72%

    33So 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.

  • 2 Chr 6:25
    72%

    25Then hear from the heavens, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

  • Matt 27:4
    72%

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

  • Ps 130:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7Let Israel hope in the LORD, for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is abundant redemption.

    8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

  • Lev 19:22
    72%

    22And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has done: and the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him.

  • Lev 6:7
    71%

    7And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he has done in trespassing therein.

  • 1 Kgs 8:36
    71%

    36Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

  • 1 Kgs 8:30
    71%

    30And listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.

  • Ps 94:21
    71%

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

  • Jer 18:23
    70%

    23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

  • 2 Sam 21:3
    70%

    3Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

  • 1 Chr 21:8
    70%

    8And David said to God, I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech you, remove the iniquity of your servant; for I have acted very foolishly.

  • Jer 33:8
    70%

    8And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned and transgressed against me.

  • Lev 4:27
    70%

    27And if any one of the common people sins through ignorance, while doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

  • Num 15:26
    70%

    26And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger who lives among them; since all the people were in ignorance.

  • Mic 7:18
    70%

    18Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.

  • Ps 85:2
    70%

    2You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah.

  • 2 Chr 29:24
    70%

    24And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel, for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

  • Ps 79:8
    70%

    8O do not remember against us former iniquities; let Your tender mercies swiftly come to us, for we are brought very low.

  • Matt 27:25
    70%

    25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

  • 2 Chr 6:21
    70%

    21Listen therefore to the supplications of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven, and when you hear, forgive.

  • Judg 10:15
    70%

    15And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do to us whatever seems good to You, but please deliver us this day.

  • 1 Chr 21:17
    69%

    17And David said to God, Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is I who have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on your people, that they should be afflicted.

  • Jer 50:20
    69%

    20In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon those whom I reserve.

  • Lev 4:20
    69%

    20And he shall do with the bull as he did with the bull for a sin offering, so he shall do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

  • Joel 3:21
    69%

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

  • Deut 32:43
    69%

    43Rejoice, O nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.

  • Num 15:28
    69%

    28And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

  • Acts 8:22
    69%

    22Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

  • Jonah 1:14
    69%

    14Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.

  • Lev 17:11
    69%

    11For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

  • Ps 9:12
    69%

    12When he avenges blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.

  • Jer 19:4
    69%

    4Because 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;

  • Num 5:8
    69%

    8But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the trespass, let the restitution be made to the LORD for the priest, besides the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.

  • Ps 51:14
    69%

    14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    69%

    31And 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.

  • Ps 79:10
    69%

    10Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.

  • 2 Chr 6:27
    69%

    27Then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you have taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.