Deuteronomy 21:1

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

I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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?

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

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

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

“You shall not murder.

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

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

Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

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.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

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

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

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

The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

‘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.”

Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.

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

The battle increased that day. However the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and at about sunset, he died.

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

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

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

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

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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.

The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

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

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

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.

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.”

However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”