Proverbs 28:17 Cross References

Proverbs 28:17

17: A murderer's tormented conscience will drive him into the grave. Don't protect him!

Yes, you must execute anyone who murders another person, for to kill a person is to kill a living being made in God's image.

However, if someone deliberately attacks and kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and put to death.

The people of the island saw it hanging there and said to each other, "A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live."

The LORD has also told me that the dogs of Jezreel will eat the body of your wife, Jezebel, at the city wall.

Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and by order of King Joash himself, they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.
That was how King Joash repaid Jehoiada for his love and loyalty--by killing his son. Zechariah's last words as he died were, "May the LORD see what they are doing and hold them accountable!"
At the beginning of the year, the Aramean army marched against Joash. They invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the nation. Then they sent all the plunder back to their king in Damascus.
Although the Arameans attacked with only a small army, the LORD helped them conquer the much larger army of Judah. The people of Judah had abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so judgment was executed against Joash.
The Arameans withdrew, leaving Joash severely wounded. But his own officials decided to kill him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest. They assassinated him as he lay in bed. Then he was buried in the City of David, but not in the royal cemetery.

three on the east side of the Jordan River and three on the west in the land of Canaan.
These cities are for the protection of Israelites, resident foreigners, and traveling merchants. Anyone who accidentally kills someone may flee there for safety.
" `But if someone strikes and kills another person with a piece of iron, it must be presumed to be murder, and the murderer must be executed.
Or if someone strikes and kills another person with a large stone, it is murder, and the murderer must be executed.
The same is true if someone strikes and kills another person with a wooden weapon. It must be presumed to be murder, and the murderer must be executed.

Give him this message: `This is what the LORD says: Isn't killing Naboth bad enough? Must you rob him, too? Because you have done this, dogs will lick your blood outside the city just as they licked the blood of Naboth!'"

`I solemnly swear that I will repay him here on Naboth's property, says the LORD, for the murder of Naboth and his sons that I saw yesterday.' So throw him out on Naboth's field, just as the LORD said."

"I have sinned," he declared, "for I have betrayed an innocent man.What do we care?" they retorted. "That's your problem."
Then Judas threw the money onto the floor of the Temple and went out and hanged himself.

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