1 Kings 2:31

New American Bible - revised edition

The king answered him: “Do as he has said. Strike him down and bury him, and remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without provocation.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:28

Later David heard of it and said: “Before the Lord, I and my kingdom are forever innocent.

2 Samuel 3:29

May the blood of Abner, son of Ner, be on the head of Joab and all his family. May Joab’s family never be without one suffering from a discharge, or one with a skin disease, or a man who holds the distaff, or one falling by the sword, or one in need of food!”

1 Kings 2:30

Benaiah went to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out.’” But he answered, “No! I will die here.” Benaiah reported to the king, “This is what Joab said to me in reply.”

2 Kings 9:26

As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—oracle of the Lord—I will repay you for it in that very plot of ground—oracle of the Lord. So now take him and throw him into this plot of ground, in keeping with the word of the Lord.” Death of Ahaziah of Judah.

Exodus 21:14

But when someone kills a neighbor after maliciously scheming to do so, you must take him even from my altar and put him to death.

Proverbs 28:17

Though a person burdened with blood guilt is in flight even to the grave, let no one offer support.

Numbers 35:33

You will not pollute the land where you live. For bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for the blood shed on it except through the blood of the one who shed it.

Acts 28:4

When the natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must certainly be a murderer; though he escaped the sea, Justice has not let him remain alive.”