For David had said to the Amalekite, ‘Your blood is on your own head because your own mouth testified against you by saying, “I killed the Lord’s anointed.” ’
Matthew 27:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised All the people answered, ‘His blood be on us and on our children! ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children! [Josh. 2:19.] American Standard Version (1901) And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Common English Bible All the people replied, “Let his blood be on us and on our children.” Catholic Public Domain Version And the entire people responded by saying, "May his blood be upon us and upon our children." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and our children. |
For David had said to the Amalekite, ‘Your blood is on your own head because your own mouth testified against you by saying, “I killed the Lord’s anointed.” ’
The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will shatter him.’
When they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and told them, ‘Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.’
‘Didn’t we strictly order you not to teach in this name? Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.’
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.
If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his death will be his own fault, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his death will be our fault.