Proverbs 28:17
A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
In Context
18He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.
Numbers 35:14Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities ye shall give in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
2 Samuel 13:34But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.
1 Kings 2:29And it was told king Solomon, Joab has fled to the tent of LORD, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
1 Kings 21:23And LORD spoke also of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
2 Chronicles 24:21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:17
16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. Two things are here intimated to be the causes of the mal-administration of princes:—1. The love of money, that root of all evil; for hating covetousness here stands opposed to oppression, according to Moses's character of good magistrates, men fearing God and hating covetousness ( Exod. xviii. 21 ), not only not being covetous, but hating it, and shaking the hands from the holding of bribes.… Read the whole commentary →