Deuteronomy 21:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Deut 13:18 : 18 When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  • Deut 19:12-13 : 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 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.
  • 2 Kgs 10:30-31 : 30 And the LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

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  • Deut 19:12-13
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    84%

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

    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 21:6-8
    3 verses
    84%

    6And all the elders of that city, that are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley,

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

    8Be 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.

  • Deut 19:10
    82%

    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.

  • Deut 19:19-21
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    19Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

    20And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you.

    21Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Exod 23:7
    74%

    7Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

  • Num 35:33
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 22:3
    73%

    3Thus 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.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 13:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare him, neither shall you conceal him:

    9But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Deut 17:7
    72%

    7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
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    4And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

  • Deut 6:18-19
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    18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

    19To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

  • Deut 21:10
    71%

    10When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

  • Deut 19:3
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    3You shall prepare a road for yourself, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 16:20
    70%

    20That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Ps 94:21
    70%

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

  • Jer 7:5-6
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    70%

    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

    6If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;

  • 2 Kgs 21:16
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    16Moreover, 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.

  • Num 31:19
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    19And remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

  • Deut 21:1-2
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    69%

    1If someone is found slain in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,

    2Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain;

  • Num 35:19
    69%

    19The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

  • Jer 22:17
    69%

    17But 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.

  • Deut 13:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

    18When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

  • Joel 3:19
    69%

    19Egypt 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:10
    69%

    10And whatever cause shall come to you from your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, you shall even warn them that they do not trespass against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren: this do, and you shall not trespass.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
    69%

    5For he put his life in his hand, and killed the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel; you saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

  • Ezek 18:5
    69%

    5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Deut 13:11
    69%

    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

  • Deut 12:25
    69%

    25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Josh 2:19
    69%

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

  • Isa 1:16
    69%

    16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

  • 2 Sam 4:11
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    11How 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?

  • Deut 27:25
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    25Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Num 35:27
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    27And the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

  • Num 35:24
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    24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

  • 1 Kgs 2:9
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    9Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.

  • Num 35:31
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    31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 9:4
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    4Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD drives them out from before you.

  • Num 35:29
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    29So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.