Murder

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 21:3-9 OT

  It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke. The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley…

• Matthew 27:24 NT

  So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

• Numbers 35:30 OT

  “ ‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.

• Deuteronomy 19:15 OT

  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

• Genesis 4:11 OT

  Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

• Genesis 9:5 OT

  I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

• Exodus 21:12 OT

  “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

• Numbers 35:32 OT

  “ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

• Numbers 35:19 OT

  The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

• Romans 13:9 NT

  For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor…

• Matthew 5:21 NT

  “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

• Matthew 5:22 NT

  But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of…

• 1 John 3:15 NT

  Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

• Galatians 5:21 NT

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Matthew 15:19 NT

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

• Isaiah 59:3 OT

  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

• Lamentations 4:13 OT

  It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

• Lamentations 4:14 OT

  They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

• Numbers 35:33 OT

  “ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

• Psalms 106:38 OT

  They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

• Isaiah 26:21 OT

  For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

• Jeremiah 2:34 OT

  Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

• Proverbs 6:16 OT

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:17 OT

  arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,