Homicide: Felonious, or Murder

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” …

And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

You shall not murder.

But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death. …

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. …

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

You shall not murder.

On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.

If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, …

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? …

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

…in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

…let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

…my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

…haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

…and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

…because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

…therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! …

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”

The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …

We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.