Deuteronomy 19:13
Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.
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Genesis 9:6He that sheds man’s blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.
Leviticus 24:21Whosoever shall smite a man, and he shall die, let him die the death.
Numbers 35:33So shall ye not pollute with murder the land in which ye dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Deuteronomy 7:16And thou shalt eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord thy God gives thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve their gods; for this is an offense to thee.
Deuteronomy 21:9And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you, if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.
2 Samuel 21:1And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, There is guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gibeonites.
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 →