THEOSISProverbs 28:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
אָ֭דָם עָשֻׁ֣ק בְּדַם־נָפֶשׁ עַד־בּ֥וֹר יָ֝נ֗וּס אַל־יִתְמְכוּ־בֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 9:6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
- Ex 21:14If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.
- Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.
- 2 Chr 24:21And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
- 2 Chr 24:25And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants rose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
- Num 35:14Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,
- 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.
- Matt 27:4Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it.