Murder

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Psalms 9:12 OT

  For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

• Deuteronomy 32:43 OT

  Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

• 1 Kings 21:19 OT

  You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

• Hosea 1:4 OT

  Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

• 1 Kings 2:32 OT

  Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa…

• Isaiah 1:15 OT

  When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

• Isaiah 59:2 OT

  But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

• 1 Peter 4:15 NT

  For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

• Psalms 51:14 OT

  Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

• Genesis 37:22 OT

  Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

• Jeremiah 26:15 OT

  Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

• Ezekiel 22:3 OT

  You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

• Ezekiel 22:4 OT

  You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and…

• 2 Kings 3:27 OT

  Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

• Romans 1:29 NT

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Genesis 27:41 OT

  Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

• Genesis 37:18 OT

  They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

• Jeremiah 22:17 OT

  But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Psalms 10:8-10 OT

  He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he…

• Proverbs 1:16 OT

  for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

• Romans 3:15 NT

  “Their feet are swift to shed blood.

• 1 Kings 21:8-10 OT

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on…

• Proverbs 1:11 OT

  If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

• John 8:44 NT

  You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is…