Proverbs 28:17 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹⁷ A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

⁶ Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

¹⁴ If 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.

¹⁴ Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan, ¹⁵ As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will. ¹⁶ If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. ¹⁷ If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner. ¹⁸ If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the blood of him that struck him. ¹⁹ The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him. ²⁰ If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him with ill design: ²¹ Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him. ²² But if by chance medley, and without hatred, ²³ And enmity, he do any of these things, ²⁴ And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin: ²⁵ The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶ If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished, ²⁷ And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him. ²⁸ For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country. ²⁹ These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings. ³⁰ The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man. ³¹ You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith. ³² The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities. ³³ Defile 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. ³⁴ And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

²³ And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.

²⁶ If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

²¹ And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord. ²² And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it. ²³ And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus. ²⁴ And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments. ²⁵ And 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.

⁴ Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it. ⁵ And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.

⁴ And 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.