Deuteronomy 19:10
In this way the blood of innocent people won't be shed in the country the Lord your God is giving you to own and you won't be responsible for the death of innocent people who aren't guilty of losing their lives.
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Deuteronomy 4:21But the Lord was angry with me because of you, and he vowed that I wouldn't cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you to own.
Deuteronomy 21:1Someone may be found murdered, lying in a field in the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own, and nobody knows who killed them.
1 Kings 2:31“Do as he says,” the king told Benaiah. “Strike him down and bury him. In that way you will remove from me and my family the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed.
2 Kings 24:4filling Jerusalem with their blood. The Lord was not willing to forgive this.
Proverbs 6:17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that murder the innocent,
Jeremiah 7:6if you stop mistreating foreigners and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering innocent people and stop hurting yourselves by worshiping other gods,
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:2-14
The Cities of Refuge. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of… Read the whole commentary →