Proverbs 28:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land."

Genesis 9:6

Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

2 Samuel 13:34

Now Absalom fled. And the young man keeping watch, lifted up his eyes and gazed out. And behold, many people were arriving along a remote road at the side of the mountain.

2 Samuel 18:15

ten young men, armor bearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him, they killed him.

1 Kings 2:29

And it was reported to king Solomon that Joab had fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and that he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, put him to death."

1 Kings 21:19

And you shall speak to him, saying: 'Thus says the Lord: You have killed. Moreover you have also taken possession.' And after this, you shall add: 'Thus says the Lord: In this place, where the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall also lick your blood.' "

1 Kings 21:23

And about Jezebel also, the Lord spoke, saying: 'The dogs shall consume Jezebel in the field of Jezreel.

2 Kings 9:26

'Certainly, I will repay you in this field, says the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his sons, which I saw yesterday, says the Lord.' Therefore, take him now, and cast him into the field, in accord with the word of the Lord."

Exodus 21:14

If someone murders his neighbor with deliberation, by lying in wait, you shall tear him away from my altar, so that he may die.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Jeremiah 41:15

But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, fled with eight men from the face of Johanan, and they went over to the sons of Ammon.

Acts 28:4

And truly, when the natives saw the beast hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another: "Certainly, this man must be a murderer, for though he escaped from the sea, vengeance will not permit him to live."

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,