Proverbs 28:17

Easy To Read Version

If a person is guilty of killing another person, then that person will never have peace. Don’t support that person.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”

Genesis 9:6

“God made people as a copy of himself. So any person who kills a person must be killed by a person.

2 Samuel 13:34

Absalom ran away.

2 Samuel 18:15

Joab had ten young soldiers who helped him in battle. These ten men gathered around Absalom and killed him.

1 Kings 2:29

Someone told King Solomon that Joab was at the altar in the Lord’s Tent. So Solomon ordered Benaiah to go and kill him.

1 Kings 21:19

Tell Ahab that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘Ahab! You killed the man Naboth. Now you are taking his land. So I tell you this! In the same place that Naboth died, you will also die. The dogs that licked Naboth’s blood will lick your blood in the same place!’”

1 Kings 21:23

And the Lord also says, ‘Dogs will eat the body of your wife Jezebel in the city of Jezreel.

2 Kings 9:26

The Lord said, ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and his sons. So I will punish Ahab in this field.’ The Lord said that. So take Joram’s body and throw it into the field, just like the Lord said!”

Exodus 21:14

But if a person planned to kill another person because he is angry or hates him, then that killer must be punished. Take him away from my altar [134] and kill him.

Proverbs 6:17

eyes that show a man is proud,\par tongues that tells lies,\par hands that kill innocent people,\par

Jeremiah 41:15

But Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johanan. They ran away to the Ammonite people.

Acts 28:4

The people living on the island saw the snake hanging from Paul’s hand. They said, “This man must be a murderer! He did not die in the sea, but Justice {\cf2\super [519]} does not want him to live.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But a man might hate another person. That man might hide, waiting to kill the person he hates. He might kill that person and run away into one of those cities of safety.