2 Kings 24:4

New American Bible - revised edition

and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that it filled the length and breadth of Jerusalem, in addition to the sin he caused Judah to commit by doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

Ezekiel 33:25

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat on the mountains, you raise your eyes to your idols, you shed blood—yet you would keep possession of the land?

Lamentations 3:42

We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

Jeremiah 19:4

All because they have forsaken me and profaned this place by burning incense to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors knew; and because the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,

Jeremiah 2:34

On your clothing is the life-blood of the innocent, you did not find them committing burglary;

Psalm 106:38

Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed.

Deuteronomy 19:10

Thus, in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, innocent blood will not be shed and you will not become guilty of bloodshed.

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.

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has practiced these abominations, and has done greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him, and has led Judah into sin by his idols,

2 Kings 24:5

The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

Jeremiah 15:4

And I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own gain, On shedding innocent blood and practicing oppression and extortion.

Jeremiah 32:31

This city has so stirred my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, that I must put it out of my sight,

Ezekiel 24:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city full of blood! A pot containing filth, whose filth cannot be removed! Take out its pieces one by one, for no lot has fallen on their behalf.

Deuteronomy 29:19

the Lord will never consent to pardon them. Instead, the Lord’s burning wrath will flare up against them; every curse written in this book will pounce on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under the heavens.

2 Kings 23:26

Yet the Lord did not turn from his fiercely burning anger against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had given.

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Ezekiel 22:3

and say: Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood within itself so that its time has come, that has made idols for its own defilement:

Ezekiel 24:8

To arouse wrath, to exact vengeance, I have left her blood on bare rock not to be covered.