The LORD has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and, behold, you are taken in your mischief, because you are a bloody man.
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has an outflow from his body, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls on the sword, or that lacks bread.
So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but that rather a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see to it yourselves.