No mercy will be shown to you. Israel must rid itself of murderers, so that all will go well.

LORD, forgive your people Israel, whom you rescued from Egypt. Forgive us and do not hold us responsible for the murder of an innocent person.'

"Do what Joab says," Solomon answered. "Kill him and bury him. Then neither I nor any other of David's descendants will any longer be held responsible for what Joab did when he killed innocent men.

Manasseh killed so many innocent people that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with blood; he did this in addition to leading the people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to sin against the LORD.

and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The LORD could not forgive Manasseh for that.

who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.

(SEE 6:16)

You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,

Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you.

If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.

"Egypt will become a desert, and Edom a ruined waste, because they attacked the land of Judah and killed its innocent people.

So they cried out to the LORD, "O LORD, we pray, don't punish us with death for taking this man's life! You, O LORD, are responsible for all this; it is your doing."

"I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!" he said. "What do we care about that?" they answered. "That is your business!"

Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.