Proverbs 28:17

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:6 : 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
  • Exod 21:14 : 14 But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.
  • Num 35:14-34 : 14 “You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge. 15 These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the resident foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there. 16 “But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death. 17 If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death. 18 Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him. 20 “But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies, 21 or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him. 22 “But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally, 23 or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm, 24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions. 25 The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil. 26 But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled, 27 and 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, 28 because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions. 29 So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live. 30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death. 31 Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death. 32 And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest. 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. 34 Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites.”
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 Say to him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood– yes, yours!”’”
  • 1 Kgs 21:23 : 23 The LORD says this about Jezebel,‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall of Jezreel.’
  • 2 Kgs 9:26 : 26 ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the LORD,“and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” says the LORD.’So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as in the LORD’s message.”
  • 2 Chr 24:21-25 : 21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple. 22 King Joash disregarded the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s son. As Zechariah was dying, he said,“May the LORD take notice and seek vengeance!” 23 At the beginning of the year the Syrian army attacked Joash and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus. 24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the LORD handed over to them Judah’s very large army, for the people of Judah had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors. The Syrians gave Joash what he deserved. 25 When they withdrew, they left Joash badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to the son of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
  • 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.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the local people saw the creature hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to one another,“No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself has not allowed him to live!”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 19:10-13
    4 verses
    74%

    10You 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.

    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.

  • Lev 24:17
    74%

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Prov 28:16
    74%

    16The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

  • Deut 19:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

    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.

  • Num 35:19-23
    5 verses
    73%

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

    20“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

    22“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

    23or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

  • Exod 21:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

    13But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

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

  • Prov 28:18
    73%

    18The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.

  • Ezek 18:18
    72%

    18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Ps 140:11
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    11A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

  • Num 35:27
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    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,

  • Prov 1:16
    72%

    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

  • Josh 20:5
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 29:10
    72%

    10Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.

  • Gen 9:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 1:11
    71%

    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Prov 16:29
    71%

    29A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.

  • Job 16:18
    71%

    18An Appeal to God as Witness“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

  • Josh 20:3
    71%

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

  • Deut 19:20
    71%

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

  • Exod 22:2
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    2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

  • Prov 26:27
    71%

    27The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone– it will come back on him.

  • Job 33:18
    71%

    18He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Ezek 18:10
    71%

    10“Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously

  • Lev 17:4
    71%

    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.

  • Prov 1:18
    71%

    18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

  • Josh 2:19
    70%

    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.

  • Mic 7:2
    70%

    2Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:17
    70%

    17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

  • Ezek 18:13
    70%

    13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.

  • Prov 28:10
    70%

    10The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Prov 29:22
    70%

    22An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

  • Rom 3:15
    70%

    15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

  • Isa 33:15
    70%

    15The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–

  • Ps 5:6
    70%

    6You destroy liars; the LORD despises violent and deceitful people.

  • Ps 37:32
    70%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Ps 7:16
    70%

    16He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

  • Prov 14:17
    69%

    17A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.