Habakkuk 2:12

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And founds a town with violence!

Micah 3:10

Who build Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;
Her prey never departs.

Genesis 4:11-17

Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”

1 Kings 16:34

In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

Jeremiah 22:13-17

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

Ezekiel 24:9

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.

Daniel 4:27-31

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

John 11:47-50

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

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Summary

Habakkuk 2:12

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Him

Blood

Habakkuk 2:8

Bible References

Him

Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you:

break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

Who build Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;

Her prey never departs.

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many

signs.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

Blood

“Because you have looted many nations,
All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—
Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.