Numbers 35:33

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘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.

Cross References

Micah 4:11

Many nations have now assembled against you; they say, ‘Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.’

Isaiah 26:21

For look, the Lord is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal the blood shed on it and will no longer conceal her slain.

2 Kings 24:4

and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,  and the Lord was not willing to forgive.

2 Kings 23:26

In spite of all that, the Lord did not turn from the fury of his intense burning anger, which burned against Judah because of all the affronts with which Manasseh had angered him.

Leviticus 18:25

The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, for God made humans in his image.

Deuteronomy 21:23

you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.  You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Genesis 4:10

Then he said, ‘What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

Numbers 35:32

Neither should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to his city of refuge, allowing him to return and live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Judges 9:24

so that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood would be avenged on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him kill his brothers.

1 Kings 2:31

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.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will first repay them double for their iniquity  and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.’

Jeremiah 26:15

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood  on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain that the Lord has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.’

Deuteronomy 19:13

Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

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.’

2 Samuel 21:9

and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged  them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they arrested her, and she went by the entrance of the Horse Gate  to the king’s palace, where they put her to death.