Proverbs 28:17

World English Bible (2000)

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Exod 21:14 : 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Num 35:14-34 : 14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. 16 "'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him. 22 "'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, 23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. 26 "'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, 27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood, 28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession. 29 "'These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. 31 "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. 32 "'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it. 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours."'"
  • 1 Kgs 21:23 : 23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
  • 2 Kgs 9:26 : 26 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,' says Yahweh; 'and I will repay you in this plot of ground,' says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of Yahweh."
  • 2 Chr 24:21-25 : 21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh. 22 Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May Yahweh look at it, and repay it." 23 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus. 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash. 25 When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 19:10-13
    4 verses
    74%

    10that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

    11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

    12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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

  • Lev 24:17
    74%

    17"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 28:16
    74%

    16A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

  • Deut 19:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

    6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

  • Num 35:19-23
    5 verses
    73%

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

    20If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

    22"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

    23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

  • Exod 21:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

    14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Prov 28:18
    73%

    18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

  • Ezek 18:18
    72%

    18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Ps 140:11
    72%

    11An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

  • Num 35:27
    72%

    27and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

  • Prov 1:16
    72%

    16for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

  • Josh 20:5
    72%

    5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.

  • Prov 29:10
    72%

    10The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

  • Gen 9:6
    72%

    6Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

  • Prov 1:11
    71%

    11If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Prov 16:29
    71%

    29A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

  • Job 16:18
    71%

    18"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

  • Josh 20:3
    71%

    3that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

  • Deut 19:20
    71%

    20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

  • Prov 26:27
    71%

    27Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

  • Job 33:18
    71%

    18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Ezek 18:10
    71%

    10If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

  • Lev 17:4
    71%

    4and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Prov 1:18
    71%

    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Josh 2:19
    70%

    19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

  • Mic 7:2
    70%

    2The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

  • Num 35:31
    70%

    31"'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:17
    70%

    17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Ezek 18:13
    70%

    13has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

  • Prov 28:10
    70%

    10Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

  • Prov 29:22
    70%

    22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

  • Rom 3:15
    70%

    15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • Isa 33:15
    70%

    15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--

  • Ps 5:6
    70%

    6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Ps 37:32
    70%

    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Ps 7:16
    70%

    16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

  • Prov 14:17
    69%

    17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.