Deuteronomy 19:13

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

¹² then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ¹³ You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you. ¹⁴ “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.

Innocent Blood

Shall Not Pity

That It May Go Well with You

Israel

No

1 Kings 2:31

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

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 21:9

So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 25:12

then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

Leviticus 24:17

‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

Thus the one who kills an animal shall make it good, but the one who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:33-34

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Deuteronomy 13:8

you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:14

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and after that God was moved by prayer for the land.

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.