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21 KJV Bible Verses About Murdering the Innocent

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  • Deuteronomy 19 sets up cities of refuge so that an accidental killer, who “was not worthy of death,” is not killed, and calls that protection keeping innocent blood from being shed.
  • Deuteronomy 21 gives a rite for a murder whose killer is unknown, in which the nearest city’s elders wash their hands and declare their innocence.
  • Psalm 106:38 and Jeremiah 19:4-5 use innocent blood for the children sacrificed to idols.
  • 2 Kings 24:4 says the innocent blood Manasseh shed was something “the LORD would not pardon.”
  • Judas calls Jesus “the innocent blood” in Matthew 27:4, and the priests use the returned silver to buy a field.

The Bible calls the killing of someone who has done nothing worthy of death the shedding of “innocent blood,” and it counts that blood as guilt on the killer and on the land where it is shed. The law sets up cities of refuge “that innocent blood be not shed in thy land” (Deuteronomy 19:10), Proverbs 6:17 lists “hands that shed innocent blood” among the things the LORD hates, and 2 Kings 24:4 says the innocent blood Manasseh shed was…

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