Proverbs 28:17
If a man is guilty because he has shed someone's blood, 1 he will be a fugitive until death 1 and no one will help him. 1
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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
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, 1 for it was in the image of God that he made man.
Numbers 35:14You must provide three cities beyond the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan. They will be cities of refuge.
2 Samuel 13:34Absalom fled away. A servant keeping watch raised his eyes and saw many people coming on the road on the hillside west of him.
1 Kings 2:29It was told King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Yahweh and was now beside the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, execute him.”
1 Kings 21:23Yahweh has also spoken concerning Jezebel, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel beside the wall of Jezreel.'
2 Chronicles 24:21But they plotted against him; at the king's command, they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh.
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 →