2 Kings 24:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ and also because of the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood, which יהוה  would not forgive.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And also for the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

Common English Bible

⁴ and because of the innocent blood that he had spilled. Manasseh had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD didn’t want to forgive that.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ and because of the innocent blood which he shed, and because he filled Jerusalem with the slaughter of the innocent. And for this reason, the Lord was not willing to be appeased.

2 Kings 24:4 Cross References

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Menashsheh sovereign of Yehuḏ

2 Kings 21:16

And also, Menashsheh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Yehuḏ

2 Kings 23:26

However, יהוה  did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His wrath burned against Yehuḏ

2 Kings 24:5

And the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Psalm 106:38

And they shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they offered to the idols of Kenaʽ

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, A lying tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood,

Jeremiah 15:4

“And I shall make them for a horror to all the reigns of the earth, on account of Menashsheh son of Ḥ

Jeremiah 19:4

“Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it to other mighty ones whom neither they, their fathers, nor the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 2:34

“Even on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. You did not find them breaking in, but in spite of all these,

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Jeremiah 32:31

“For this city has been a cause for My displeasure and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day that I should remove it from before My face,

Lamentations 3:42

We, we have transgressed and rebelled. You, You have not forgiven.

Ezekiel 22:3

“And you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time might come. And she has made idols within herself to become defiled.

Ezekiel 24:6

‘Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “Woe to the city of blood, to the pot in which there is rust, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece, on which no lot has fallen.

Ezekiel 24:8

“To stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have set her blood on a shining rock, so that it would not be covered.”

Ezekiel 33:25

“Therefore say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “You eat meat with blood, and you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Numbers 35:33

‘And do not profane the land where you are, for blood profanes the land, and the land is not pardoned for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Deuteronomy 19:10

so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, or blood-guilt shall be upon you.

Deuteronomy 29:19

“And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to thirst.