Psalm 106:38

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:17

They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire; they used divination and augury; and they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 26:21

For the Lord comes out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no longer cover its slain.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Ezekiel 16:20

You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your whorings were not enough!

Ezekiel 22:3

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city! Shedding blood within itself; its time has come; making its idols, defiling itself.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:25

Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Deuteronomy 21:9

So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, because you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord.