Deuteronomy 19:10

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

⁹ If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: ¹⁰ So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible. ¹¹ But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

As an Inheritance

Innocent Blood

Put to Death

Shed Innocent Blood

Be Held Responsible

Jehovah

No

Numbers 35:33

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.

2 Kings 21:16

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Kings 24:4

And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

Psalm 94:21

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

Proverbs 6:17

Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 7:6-7

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

Joel 3:19

Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.

Jonah 1:14

So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

Matthew 27:4-5

Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.