You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.
This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.
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.
Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.