Proverbs 28:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person Shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If a man willfully sheds the blood of a person [and keeps the guilt of murder upon his conscience], he is fleeing to the pit (the grave) and hastening to his own destruction; let no man stop him!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ If someone feels guilty about murder, don’t hold them back from fleeing to the pit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Proverbs 28:17 Cross References

Genesis 4:12

when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

2 Samuel 13:34

But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

1 Kings 2:29

And it was told king Solomon, Joab is fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

1 Kings 21:19

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? and thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

1 Kings 21:23

And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

2 Kings 9:26

Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

Exodus 21:14

And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

Jeremiah 41:15

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

Acts 28:4

And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die; and he flee into one of these cities: