Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Bible References

But thou

Deuteronomy 21:9
So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Leviticus 24:17
"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:33
"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
2 Samuel 21:1
There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."
1 Kings 2:31
The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

General references

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.
Exodus 21:12
"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
Deuteronomy 19:10
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
Deuteronomy 25:12
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.