Proverbs 28:17
A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, || Flees to the pit, [and] none takes hold on him [to help].
Literal Standard 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
18Whoever is walking uprightly is saved, || And the perverted of ways falls at once.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Numbers 35:14three of the cities you give from beyond the Jordan, and three of the cities you give in the land of Canaan; they are cities of refuge.
2 Samuel 13:34And Absalom flees, and the young man who is watching lifts up his eyes and looks, and behold, many people are coming by the way behind him, on the side of the hill.
1 Kings 2:29And it is declared to King Solomon that Joab has fled to the tent of YHWH, and behold, [is] near the altar; and Solomon sends Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
1 Kings 21:23And YHWH has also spoken of Jezebel, saying, The dogs eat Jezebel in the bulwark of Jezreel;
2 Chronicles 24:21And they conspire against him, and stone him [with] stone by the command of the king, in the court of the house of YHWH,
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 →