In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”
Proverbs 28:17 - Easy To Read Version If a person is guilty of killing another person, then that person will never have peace. Don’t support that person. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person Shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If a man willfully sheds the blood of a person [and keeps the guilt of murder upon his conscience], he is fleeing to the pit (the grave) and hastening to his own destruction; let no man stop him! American Standard Version (1901) A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him. Common English Bible If someone feels guilty about murder, don’t hold them back from fleeing to the pit. Catholic Public Domain Version A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him. |
In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”
“God made people as a copy of himself. So any person who kills a person must be killed by a person.
Joab had ten young soldiers who helped him in battle. These ten men gathered around Absalom and killed him.
Someone told King Solomon that Joab was at the altar in the Lord’s Tent. So Solomon ordered Benaiah to go and kill him.
Tell Ahab that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘Ahab! You killed the man Naboth. Now you are taking his land. So I tell you this! In the same place that Naboth died, you will also die. The dogs that licked Naboth’s blood will lick your blood in the same place!’”
And the Lord also says, ‘Dogs will eat the body of your wife Jezebel in the city of Jezreel.
The Lord said, ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and his sons. So I will punish Ahab in this field.’ The Lord said that. So take Joram’s body and throw it into the field, just like the Lord said!”
But if a person planned to kill another person because he is angry or hates him, then that killer must be punished. Take him away from my altar [134] and kill him.
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But Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johanan. They ran away to the Ammonite people.
The people living on the island saw the snake hanging from Paul’s hand. They said, “This man must be a murderer! He did not die in the sea, but Justice {\cf2\super [519]} does not want him to live.”
“But a man might hate another person. That man might hide, waiting to kill the person he hates. He might kill that person and run away into one of those cities of safety.