Deuteronomy 21:8
Forgive, Adonai, your people Israel [God prevails], whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel [God prevails].” The blood shall be forgiven them.
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In The King James Version
In Context
7They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Cross References
Numbers 35:33“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Matthew 23:35that on you may come all the upright blood shed on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel [Vanity, Mourning] + 23:35. Quoted from Gen 4:9-11 to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, + 23:35. Quoted from 2 Chr 24:20-22 + 23:35 By referencing Genesis to 2 Chronicles, He calls to witness the entire recorded history of righteous people murdered from “A to Z”. (Chronicles is the last book of the Hebrew Bible) whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:2-10
Undetected Murder. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of… Read the whole commentary →