Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

Bible References

General references

Deuteronomy 19:13
Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.
Deuteronomy 21:8
Forgive thy people Israel, whom thou, Jehovah, hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel; and the blood shall be expiated for them.
1 Kings 2:31
And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him; and take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.
2 Kings 21:16
And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.
2 Kings 24:4
and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.
Psalm 94:21
They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths;
Jeremiah 7:6
if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Jonah 1:14
And they cried unto Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.
Matthew 27:4
saying, I have sinned in having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.