1 Kings 2:31
The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
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1 Kings 2:31
The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
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1 Kings 2:29
King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent; and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
1 Kings 2:30
Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’ ” He said, “No; but I will die here.” Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”
1 Kings 2:46
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings 2:35
The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
2 Kings 11:15
Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”
2 Samuel 20:23
Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,
1 Kings 1:7
He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.
1 Kings 1:50
Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.
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1 Kings 2:32
Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
1 Kings 2:33
So their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”
1 Kings 2:34
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
1 Kings 2:28
This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.
1 Kings 2:5
“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist and in his sandals that were on his feet.
1 Kings 2:6
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
1 Kings 2:25
King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Genesis 4:8
Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
Judges 9:56
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;
Judges 9:57
and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.
2 Samuel 1:16
David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”
Luke 4:29
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
Acts 28:4
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
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Exodus 21:12
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
Exodus 21:13
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Exodus 21:14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
Deuteronomy 19:12
then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Deuteronomy 19:13
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
Genesis 9:5
I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Numbers 35:33
“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Numbers 35:34
You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”
Numbers 35:20
If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
Deuteronomy 21:8
Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
Proverbs 28:17
A man who is tormented by blood guilt will be a fugitive until death. No one will support him.
Leviticus 24:17
“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:31
“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 19:10
This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
Psalms 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Joel 3:19
Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
1 Samuel 19:5
for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
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Deuteronomy 21:9
So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
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