THEOSISDeuteronomy 19:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.
לֹא־תָח֥וֹס עֵֽינְךָ֖ עָלָ֑יו וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֧ דַֽם־הַנָּקִ֛י מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְט֥וֹב לָֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 21:9And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.
- Deut 7:2And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:
- Deut 7:16Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.
- Num 35:33Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.
- Num 35:34And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.
- 2 Sam 21:1And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites.
- Gen 9:6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
- Lev 24:17He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.