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Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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Isaiah 59:7
They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
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Matthew 27:4-5
saying,“ I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said,“ What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
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Numbers 35:33
“ 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.
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Jonah 1:14
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.”
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Deuteronomy 19:13
You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
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Deuteronomy 21:1-9
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,your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.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–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.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)and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.Then they must proclaim,“ Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.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.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.
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1 Kings 2 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.
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Jeremiah 7:6-7
Stop oppressing 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.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.
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Joel 3:19
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.
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2 Kings 21 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.
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2 Kings 24 4
Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.
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Psalms 94:21
They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.