Jeremiah Escapes Death

¹⁴ Now as for me: I am in your hands. Do with me, as ye think expedient and good. ¹⁵ But this shall ye know: if ye put me to death, ye shall make yourselves, this city and all the inhabiters thereof, guilty of innocent blood. For this is of a truth: that the LORD hath sent me unto you, to speak all these words in your ears." ¹⁶ Then said the rulers and the people unto the priests and prophets, "This man may not be condemned to death, for he hath preached unto us in the name of the LORD our God."

Innocent Blood

Lord Sent Me

Send Me

Jehovah

No

Numbers 35:33

"'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it.

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Jeremiah 7:6

If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;

Genesis 4:10

And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, "Said I not unto you that ye should not sin against the lad? But ye would not hear; And now verily see, his blood is required."

Deuteronomy 19:10

that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee.

2 Kings 24:4

and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.

Jeremiah 2:30

It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion.

Jeremiah 2:34

Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:17

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

Matthew 23:30-36

and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.'

Matthew 26:4

and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

Matthew 26:25

Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, "Is it I, master?" He said unto him, "Thou hast said."

Acts 7:60

And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. For they know not what they do." And when he had thus spoken he fell asleep.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

which as they killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, even so have they persecuted us, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men:

Revelation 16:6

for they shed out the blood of saints, and prophets, and therefore hast thou given them blood to drink: for they are worthy."