TOPICAL BIBLE
Homicide
368 references in this topic.
Deuteronomy 4:43Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.Deuteronomy 5:17“You shall not murder.Deuteronomy 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.Deuteronomy 19:2you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.Deuteronomy 19:3You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.Deuteronomy 19:4This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;Deuteronomy 19:5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:Deuteronomy 19:6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn’t hate him in time past.Deuteronomy 19:7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.Deuteronomy 19:8If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;Deuteronomy 19:9if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:Deuteronomy 19:10that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.Deuteronomy 19:11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;Deuteronomy 19:12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.Deuteronomy 19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.Deuteronomy 21:1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him;Deuteronomy 21:2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:Deuteronomy 21:3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;Deuteronomy 21:4and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.Deuteronomy 21:5The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.Deuteronomy 21:6All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;Deuteronomy 21:7and they shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.Deuteronomy 21:8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.Deuteronomy 21:9So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don’t bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.Deuteronomy 27:24‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Deuteronomy 27:25‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Joshua 20:1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,Joshua 20:2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,Joshua 20:3that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.Joshua 20:4He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.Joshua 20:5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.Joshua 20:6He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”Joshua 20:7They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.Joshua 20:8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.Joshua 20:9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.Judges 3:16Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.Judges 3:17He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.Judges 3:18When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute.Judges 3:19But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret errand to you, king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him went out from him.Judges 3:20Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.Judges 3:21Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:Judges 3:22and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.Judges 3:23Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.Judges 9:5He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.Judges 9:18and you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);Judges 9:56Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;Judges 19:25But the men wouldn’t listen to him: so the man laid hold of his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning: and when the day began to dawn, they let her go.Judges 19:26Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.Judges 19:27Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.Judges 19:28He said to her, “Get up, and let us be going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.2 Samuel 1:15David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and fall on him.” He struck him, so that he died.2 Samuel 1:16David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”2 Samuel 2:18The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.2 Samuel 2:19Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.2 Samuel 2:20Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is I.”2 Samuel 2:21Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.2 Samuel 2:22Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?”2 Samuel 2:23However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.