And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, and turn aside the innocent blood which Joab shed, off of me and off of my father’s house.
And also Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood, till he has filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a wilderness of desolation, from violence done to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they poured out in their land.
And they cried out to Jehovah, and said, We pray, O Jehovah, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not lay innocent blood on us. For You, O Jehovah, have done as You desired.
And you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for blood pollutes the land. And nothing is to be taken to atone for the land for blood which is shed in it, except for the blood of him who sheds it;
And it shall be, when you have come into the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance, and you have possessed it, and live in it;
And Jehovah was angry with me because of your words, and swore that I would not be passing over the Jordan, and I would not be going into the good land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance.
Yea, he has put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine. And Jehovah worked a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. And why do you sin against innocent blood, to cause David to die without cause?