Deuteronomy 19:10

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You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

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  • Prov 6:17 : 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 saying,“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said,“What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!” 5 So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
  • Jer 7:6-7 : 6 Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. 7 If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.
  • Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
  • Jonah 1:14 : 14 So they cried out to the LORD,“Oh, please, LORD, don’t let us die on account of this man! Don’t hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. After all, you, LORD, have done just as you pleased.”
  • Num 35:33 : 33 “You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
  • Deut 19:13 : 13 You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
  • Deut 21:1-9 : 1 Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him, 2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. 3 Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked– that has never pulled with the yoke– 4 and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck. 5 Then the Levitical priests will approach(for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict) 6 and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. 7 Then they must proclaim,“Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime. 8 Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed. 9 In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 2:31 : 31 The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.
  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 19:11-14
    4 verses
    84%

    11However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

    13You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

    14Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 21:8-9
    2 verses
    82%

    8Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

    9In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.

  • Num 35:33
    78%

    33“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

  • Deut 19:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.

    3You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the LORD your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

    4Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.

  • Deut 19:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

    7Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

  • Deut 5:17
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    17You must not murder.

  • Josh 20:5
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    5When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation.

  • Exod 20:13
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    13“You shall not murder.

  • Deut 21:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

    2your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

  • Josh 20:9
    75%

    9These were the cities of refuge appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly.

  • Exod 23:7
    74%

    7Keep your distance from a false charge– do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Deut 13:8-9
    2 verses
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    8You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

  • Num 35:27
    74%

    27and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

  • Josh 2:19
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    19Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

  • Josh 20:3
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    3Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

  • Deut 12:16
    73%

    16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.

  • 2 Chr 19:10
    73%

    10Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you(whether it involves a violent crime or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the LORD. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues, but if you obey, you will be free of guilt.

  • Jer 7:6
    73%

    6Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

  • Deut 16:20
    73%

    20You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 19:9
    73%

    9and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today(namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.

  • Joel 3:19
    73%

    19Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

  • Lev 19:16
    73%

    16You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the LORD.

  • Exod 21:14
    73%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

  • Lev 17:4
    73%

    4but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

  • Jer 26:15
    73%

    15But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the LORD has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!”

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

    12And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

  • Deut 19:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Prov 28:17
    72%

    17The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

  • Gen 9:6
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    6“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

    24You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 13:11
    72%

    11Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

  • Deut 20:16
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    16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

  • Deut 15:23
    72%

    23However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 27:25
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    25‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
    72%

    4Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.

  • Jer 19:4
    72%

    4I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.

  • Num 35:19
    72%

    19The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.