Deuteronomy 19:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:31

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.

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.

2 Kings 24:4

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

Psalm 94:21

Those who conspire against the just and condemn the innocent to death?

Proverbs 6:17

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

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, violence and destruction are on their highways.

Jonah 1:14

Then they cried to the Lord: “Please, O Lord, do not let us perish for taking this man’s life; do not charge us with shedding innocent blood, for you, Lord, have accomplished what you desired.”

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.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you. Removal of Landmarks.

Deuteronomy 26:1

When you have come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, and have taken possession and settled in it,

Deuteronomy 4:21

But the Lord was angry with me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan nor enter the good land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

1 Samuel 19:5

When he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the Lord won a great victory for all Israel, you were glad to see it. Why, then, should you become guilty of shedding innocent blood by killing David without cause?”