Proverbs 28:17

New Century Version

Don’t help those who are guilty of murder; let them run until they die.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth.”

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

2 Samuel 13:34

In the meantime Absalom had run away. A guard standing on the city wall saw many people coming from the other side of the hill.

2 Samuel 18:15

Ten young men who carried Joab’s armor also gathered around Absalom and struck him and killed him.

1 Kings 2:29

Someone told King Solomon that Joab had run to the Tent of the Lord and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah to go and kill him.

1 Kings 21:19

Tell Ahab that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘You have murdered Naboth and taken his land. So I tell you this: In the same place the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, they will also lick up your blood!’ ”

1 Kings 21:23

“And the Lord also says, ‘Dogs will eat the body of Jezebel in the city of Jezreel.’

2 Kings 9:26

‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and his sons, says the Lord, so I will punish Ahab in his field, says the Lord.’ Take Joram’s body and throw it into the field, as the Lord has said.”

Exodus 21:14

But if someone plans and murders another person on purpose, put him to death, even if he has run to my altar for safety.

Proverbs 6:17

a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people,

Jeremiah 41:15

But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and ran away to the Ammonites.

Acts 28:4

The people living on the island saw the snake hanging from Paul’s hand and said to each other, “This man must be a murderer! He did not die in the sea, but Justice does not want him to live.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if a person hates his neighbor and, after hiding and waiting, attacks and kills him and then runs to one of these cities for safety,