Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them." And the bloodshed will be atoned for. Cross References Numbers 35:33 Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Numbers 35:34 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites." Deuteronomy 21:7 and they shall declare, "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. 1 Kings 2:31 And the king replied, "Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed. Jonah 1:14 So they cried out to the LORD: "Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man's life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased." Treasury of Scripture Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. lay not Numbers 35:33 2 Samuel 3:28 2 Kings 24:4 unto thy people [heb] in the midst |