Exodus 20:5
5 aYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ba jealous God, cvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,Numbers 35:31-34
31Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 33You shall not dpollute the land in which you live, for blood epollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except fby the blood of the one who shed it. 34 gYou shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, hfor I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”Deuteronomy 21:1-9
Atonement for Unsolved Murders
1“If in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him, 2then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities. 3And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer ithat has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke. 4And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. 5Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen jthem to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and kby their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled. 6And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man lshall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 7and they shall testify, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed. 8Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and mdo not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’ 9So nyou shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.1 Samuel 15:33
33And Samuel said, o“As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord pin Gilgal.2 Samuel 6:17
17And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it qin its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. rAnd David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.2 Samuel 6:21
21And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, swho chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince ▼▼Or leader
over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will celebrate before the Lord. 2 Samuel 21:6
6let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the Lord at uGibeah of Saul, vthe chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”2 Kings 24:3-4
3Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, wfor the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, 4and also xfor the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.
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