2 Kings 24:4
4and also afor the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.Psalms 106:37-38
37They bsacrificed their sonsand their daughters to cthe demons;
38they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was dpolluted with blood.
Ezekiel 16:36
36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, eand because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,Ezekiel 16:38
38 fAnd I will judge you gas women who commit adultery and hshed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.Ezekiel 22:2-4
2“And you, ison of man, jwill you judge, will you judge kthe bloody city? lThen declare to her all her abominations. 3You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that mher time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4You have become guilty nby the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought oyour days near, the appointed time of ▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until
your years has come. qTherefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. Ezekiel 23:39
39For when rthey had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day sthey came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, tthis is what they did in my house.Ezekiel 23:45
45But righteous men ushall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”Ezekiel 24:6-9
6“Therefore thus says the Lord God: vWoe to the bloody city, to wthe pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice. ▼▼Hebrew no lot has fallen upon it
7For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on ythe bare rock; zshe did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. 8To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered. 9Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! aaI also will make the pile great.
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