1 Kings 2:31

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The king said to him, ‘Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him in order to remove from me and from my father’s family the blood that Joab shed without just cause.

Cross References

Numbers 35:33

‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,  and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Exodus 21:14

If a person schemes and wilfully  acts against his neighbour to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, ‘This man, no doubt, is a murderer. Even though he has escaped the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.’

Proverbs 28:17

Someone burdened by bloodguilt will be a fugitive until death. Let no one help him.

2 Kings 9:26

“As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“so will I repay you on this plot of land” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.’

2 Samuel 3:28

David heard about it later and said, ‘I and my kingdom are for ever innocent before the Lord concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

2 Samuel 3:29

May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease,  or a man who can only work a spindle,  or someone who falls by the sword or starves.’

1 Kings 2:30

So Benaiah went to the tabernacle and said to Joab, ‘This is what the king says: “Come out! ” ’ But Joab said, ‘No, for I will die here.’ So Benaiah took a message back to the king, ‘This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.’