Deuteronomy 21:8
Be merciful to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood + 21:8 Gr. may not be in your people. may not be charged on your people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.
Cross References
Numbers 35:33So shall you⌃ not pollute with murder the land in which you⌃ 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.
2 Kings 24:4Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not + 24:4 Gr. be propitiated. pardon it.
Jeremiah 26:15Therefore has Apis fled from you? your choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.
Ezekiel 23:24And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against you round about: and I will set judgement before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgements.
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 →