Num 35:33, Deu 21:8-9, 2Ki 24:3-4, Jer 2:34, 7:6, 15:4, 19:4, Mat 23:30-31 | ESV | STEP | You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land , and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

j[See ver. 5 above]

k[See ver. 5 above]

l ch. 13:10; 25:6; Deut. 6:14

m ch. 24:9; 29:18; 34:17; Deut. 28:25

n[2 Kgs. 21:2, 11, 16, 17; 23:26; 24:3, 4]

oSee ch. 1:16

p 2 Kgs. 21:16; See ch. 2:34

q Acts 7:51, 52

Numbers 35:33

33 You shall not ^apollute the land in which you live, for blood ^bpollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ^cby the blood of the one who shed it.

Deuteronomy 21:8-9

8 Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and ^ddo not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’ 9 So ^eyou shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

2 Kings 24:3-4

3 Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, ^ffor the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, 4 and also ^gfor the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.

Jeremiah 2:34

34 Also on your skirts is found
^hthe lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them ⁱbreaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 7:6

6 if you ^jdo not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, ^kor shed innocent blood in this place, ^land if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 15:4

4 ^mAnd I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what ⁿManasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 19:4

4 ^oBecause the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; ^pand because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Matthew 23:30-31

30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are ^qsons of those who murdered the prophets.