aEx. 21:12, 14; Lev. 24:17; Num. 35:31, 33; [Matt. 26:52; Rev. 13:10]
bch. 1:27; 5:1; James 3:9
cGen. 9:5, 6; Ex. 21:12; Num. 35:31; Deut. 19:11, 12
d[See ver. 18 above]
e[See ver. 17 above]
fPs. 106:38; Jer. 3:1, 2, 9; [Mic. 4:11]
gPs. 106:38; Jer. 3:1, 2, 9; [Mic. 4:11]
hSee Gen. 9:6
iLev. 18:25; Deut. 21:23
jSee Ex. 29:45
kch. 19:13
l[Num. 27:21]
mJosh. 18:28
nch. 24:25
o[Ex. 21:14]
pNum. 35:33; Deut. 19:13; 21:8, 9

Genesis 9:6

6 a“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
bfor God made man in his own image.

Leviticus 24:17

An Eye for an Eye

17 c“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

21 dWhoever kills an animal shall make it good, eand whoever kills a person shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:33-34

33You shall not fpollute the land in which you live, for blood gpollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except hby the blood of the one who shed it. 34 iYou shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, jfor I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 21:9

9So kyou shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

2 Samuel 21:1

David Avenges the Gibeonites

1Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David lsought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:14

14And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in mZela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that nGod responded to the plea for the land.

1 Kings 2:31

31The king replied to him, o“Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, pand thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.
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