1 Samuel 19:5 References
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"For ahe took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and bthe Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. cWhy then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?"
c Deuteronomy 19:10-13, 1 Samuel 20:32, Psalms 94:21, Matthew 27:4
Deuteronomy 19
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"So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and abloodguiltiness be on you.
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"But aif there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,
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then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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"aYou shall not pity him, but byou shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.
1 Samuel 20
32
But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, "aWhy should he be put to death? What has he done?"
Psalms 94
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They aband themselves together against the life of the righteous And bcondemn the innocent to death.