1 Kings 2:31

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

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

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

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

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

It 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.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

“You shall not murder.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

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

Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,

Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.

The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.

He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

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

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before Yahweh.

“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

‘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 Yahweh’s word.”

Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house.”

Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

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

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.