Proverbs 28:17
A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.
Numbers 35:14Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
2 Samuel 13:34But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people in a roundabout way by the hill-side.
1 Kings 2:29And it was told king Solomon: 'Joab is fled unto the Tent of the 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 of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat 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 the 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 →