Deuteronomy 21:9

So shall thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee when thou shall do that which is right in the eyes of LORD.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

In Context

8Forgive, O LORD, thy people Israel whom thou have redeemed, and allow no innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

10When thou go forth to battle against thine enemies, and LORD thy God delivers them into thy hands, and thou carry them away captive,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:25Thou shall not eat it, that it may go well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, when thou shall do that which is right in the eyes of LORD.

Deuteronomy 19:12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

2 Kings 10:30And LORD said to Jehu, Because thou have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne o

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:2-10

Undetected Murder. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of… Read the whole commentary →

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