Deuteronomy 21:9

And you shall take away innocent blood from amongst you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.

LXX2012 (British)

In The King James Version

So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

In Context

8Be 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.

10And if when you go out to war against your enemies, the Lord your God should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:25You shall not eat it, that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, if you shall do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 19:12then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

2 Kings 10:30And the Lord said to Ju, Because of all your deeds wherein you have acted well in doing that which was right in my eyes, according to all things which you have done to the house of Achaab as they were in my heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.

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 →

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