'Bloodshed' in the Bible
Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.
"If a case is too difficult for you to decide with respect to bloodshed, civil claims, assault and battery, or other matters of dispute within your courts, bring it to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
"When you build a new house, install a parapet along your roof so that if someone falls from the roof, you won't bring guilt of bloodshed on your house."
The LORD will repay him for his bloodshed because, without my father David's consent he attacked and murdered two men more righteous and better than he, Ner's son Abner, the commander of Israel's army and Jether's son Amasa, commander of Judah's army.
But then God told me, "You will not build a temple to my name, because you are a man of war, and you have committed bloodshed.'
You will destroy those who speak lies. The LORD abhors the person of bloodshed and deceit.
God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,
The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers them.
A guilty man tormented by bloodshed will be a lifelong fugitive; let no one support him.
For the vineyard of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden in which he delights. He looked for justice, but saw only bloodshed; he searched for righteousness, but heard only an outcry!
"I'll send famine and wild beasts against you that will rob you of your children. Pestilence and bloodshed will devastate you when I'll declare war on you. I, the LORD, have spoken."
"Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it,
If I should say to a certain wicked person, "You wicked man, you're certainly about to die,' but you don't warn him to turn from his wicked behavior, he'll die in his guilt, but I'll seek retribution for his bloodshed from you.
therefore as I'm alive and living," declares the Lord GOD, "I'm turning you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will certainly overtake you, since you never have hated shedding blood. That's why bloodshed will certainly pursue you.
So I poured out my anger on them because of all the bloodshed throughout the land and because they had defiled it with their idolatry.
I'll judge them with disease and bloodshed. I'll shower him, his soldiers, and the vast army that accompanies him with a torrential flood, hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
who are building up Zion by means of bloodshed, and Jerusalem by means of iniquity.
"Woe to the one who founds a city upon bloodshed, and constructs a city by lawlessness.