13 Bible Verses about Killing The Innocent

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

Make a chain; for the land is full of bloody judgments, and the city is full of violence.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

You have condemned and murdered the just; he does not resist you.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Because they have forsaken Me, and have made this place famous and have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents.

Egypt shall be a ruin, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, from violence done to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they poured out in their land.

And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Surely at the commandment of Jehovah this came on Judah, to remove them out of His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah would not pardon.

Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

As it is written, "For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter."