1 Kings 2:6
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6 Act, therefore, according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.(A)
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1 Kings 2:9
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9 Therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you must bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”(A)
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Isaiah 57:21
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21 There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.(A)
Isaiah 48:22
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22 “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”(A)
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.
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Proverbs 28:17
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17 If someone is burdened with the blood of another,
let that killer be a fugitive until death;
let no one offer assistance.(A)
Proverbs 20:26
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26 A wise king winnows the wicked
and drives the wheel over them.
Psalm 37:37
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37 Mark the blameless and behold the upright,
for there is posterity for the peaceable.(A)
Isaiah 65:20
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20 No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime,
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.(A)
Isaiah 57:2
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2 Those who walk uprightly enter into peace
and rest on their couches.(A)
2 Kings 22:20
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20 Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.’ ” They took the message back to the king.
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1 Kings 2:28-34
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28 When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah though he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and grasped the horns of the altar.(A) 29 When it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord and now is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”(B) 30 So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come out.’ ” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.” 31 The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.(C) 32 The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.(D) 33 So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore.”(E) 34 Then Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and killed him, and he was buried at his own house near the wilderness.
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Numbers 35:33
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33 You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.(A)
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Genesis 42:38
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38 But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”(A)
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Genesis 9:6
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6 Whoever sheds the blood of a human,
by a human shall that person’s blood be shed,
for in his own image
God made humans.(A)
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