Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Provide atonement, O Lord, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.’ And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.

So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

For he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

And with Absalom went two hundred men invited from Jerusalem, and they went along innocently and did not know anything.

Then the king said to him, “Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed.

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.

“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?

If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight of the innocent.

I am afraid of all my sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

“The righteous see it and are glad, And the innocent laugh at them:

He will even deliver one who is not innocent; Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”

He may pile it up, but the just will wear it, And the innocent will divide the silver.

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.

He who does not put out his money at usury, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

They gather together against the life of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood.

And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;