Deuteronomy 19:10

Good News Translation

Do this, so that innocent people will not die and so that you will not be guilty of putting them to death in the land that the Lord is giving you.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:31

“Do what Joab says,” Solomon answered. “Kill him and bury him. Then neither I nor any other of David's descendants will any longer be held responsible for what Joab did when he killed innocent men.

2 Kings 21:16

Manasseh killed so many innocent people that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with blood; he did this in addition to leading the people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to sin against the Lord.

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The Lord could not forgive Manasseh for that.

Psalm 94:21

who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.

Isaiah 59:7

You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,

Joel 3:19

“Egypt will become a desert, and Edom a ruined waste, because they attacked the land of Judah and killed its innocent people.

Jonah 1:14

So they cried out to the Lord, “O Lord, we pray, don't punish us with death for taking this man's life! You, O Lord, are responsible for all this; it is your doing.”

Numbers 35:33

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Deuteronomy 19:13

No mercy will be shown to you. Israel must rid itself of murderers, so that all will go well.

Deuteronomy 26:1

“After you have occupied the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have settled there,

Deuteronomy 4:21

Because of you the Lord your God was angry with me and solemnly declared that I would not cross the Jordan River to enter the fertile land which he is giving you.

1 Samuel 19:5

He risked his life when he killed Goliath, and the Lord won a great victory for Israel. When you saw it, you were glad. Why, then, do you now want to do wrong to an innocent man and kill David for no reason at all?”