and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
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and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
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And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
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and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not pardon.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 24:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- Numbers 35:33 “ ‘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.
- Deuteronomy 19:10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
- Psalms 106:38 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.
- Jeremiah 2:34 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.
- Jeremiah 15:1-2 Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out! It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’
- Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that…
2Ki 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Ver. 4. And also for the innocent blood.] Of this crying sin Jehoahaz also and Jehoiakim were deeply guilty. {Jer 22:17 Eze 19:1-14}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For the innocent blood, to wit, of those prophets…
For the innocent blood, to wit, of those prophets and saints who either reproved or would not comply with his idolatrous worship.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And also for the innocent blood that he shed,…
And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,.... See Kg2 21:16 which cruel usage of the prophets, and servants of the Lord, was still continued; see Jer 26:21,
which the Lord would not pardon; he pardoned the sins of Manasseh, who repented, but not the sins of those persons who imitated him, but repented not; or though he personally pardoned the sins of Manasseh, so that he was saved everlastingly, yet the temporal punishment of the nation for those sins, in which they were involved with him, was not averted.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Lord would not pardon--(see on Kg2 23:26; Jer…
the Lord would not pardon--(see on Kg2 23:26; Jer 15:1).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. which [R.V. and] the Lord would not pardon]…
4. which [R.V. and] the Lord would not pardon] The example, set for so long a time, had so penetrated the national character, that Jehovah, who multiplies His pardon (Isa_55:7), could bear with the transgressions no longer. We gather from Chronicles that Jehoiakim did evil like his predecessors. His abominations that he did, and that which was found in him (probably meaning, the evil found in his ways), were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) The innocent blood.—Heb., blood of the innocent; an…
(4) The innocent blood.—Heb., blood of the innocent; an expression like hand of the right, i.e., the right hand; or, day of the sixth, i.e., the sixth day. Thenius thinks the murder of some prominent personage, such as Isaiah, may be intended, and wishes to distinguish between the statement of the first clause of the verse and the second; but 2Ki_21:16, where the two statements are connected more closely, does not favour this view.
Which the Lord would not pardon.—Literally, and Jehovah willed not to pardon. We must not soften the statement of 2Ki_24:3-4, as Bähr does, by asserting the meaning to be that the nation was punished, not for the sins of Manasseh, but for its persistence in the same kind of sins. The sins of Manasseh are regarded as a climax in Judah’s long course of provocation: the cup was full, and judgment ready to fall. It was only suspended for a time, not revoked, in the reign of the good king Josiah. In short, the idea of the writer is that the innocent blood shed by Manasseh cried to heaven for vengeance, and that the ruin of the kingdom was the answer of the All righteous Judge. It is no objection to say, that in that case children suffered for their fathers’ misdeeds; that was precisely the Old Testament doctrine, until Ezekiel proclaimed another (Eze_18:19; comp. Exo_20:5; Deu_5:9). Looking at the catastrophe from a different standpoint, we may remember that national iniquities must be chastised in the present life, if at all; and that the sufferings of the exile were necessary for the purification of Israel from its inveterate tendency to apostatise from Jehovah.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And also for the innocent blood that he shed.…
And also for the innocent blood that he shed. (comp. 2Ki_21:16, and the comment ad loc.) Like the other "sins of Manasseh," the shedding of innocent blood continued, both in the Moloch offerings (Jer_7:31) and in the persecution of the righteous. (Jer_7:6, Jer_7:9, etc.) Urijah was actually put to death by Jehoiakim; (Jer_26:23) Jeremiah narrowly escaped. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon. Blood "cries to God from the ground" on which it falls, (Gen_4:11) and is "required" at the hands of the bloodshedder (Gen_9:5) unfailingly. Especially is the blood of saints slain for their religion avenged and exacted by the Most High. (see Rev_6:10 Rev_11:18 Rev_16:6 Rev_19:2, etc.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:4 innocent blood: Tradition holds that Manasseh murdered the…
24:4 innocent blood: Tradition holds that Manasseh murdered the prophet Isaiah by sawing him in two (cp. Heb 11:37).
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