Numbers 35:33

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

2 Samuel 21:9

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Samuel 3:29

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.

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that you may take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

2 Kings 23:26

Nevertheless the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him with.

2 Kings 24:4

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they laid hands on her; and when she had come to the entrance of the horse gate by the king’s house, they killed her there.

Psalm 106:28

They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Psalm 106:38

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 26:21

For, behold, the LORD is coming out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Jeremiah 16:18

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

Jeremiah 26:15

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Leviticus 18:25

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.

Micah 4:11

Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Numbers 35:32

And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 21:23

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed by God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Judges 9:24

That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brethren.