2 Kings 24:4 “and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusal…”

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

World English Bible

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.

American Standard Version

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

Geneva Bible 1599

And for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Ierusalem with innocent blood) therefore the Lord would not pardon it.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

Bible in Basic English

And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

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Cross references

“for the innocent”

2 Kings 21:16 Numbers 35:33 Deuteronomy 19:10 Jeremiah 2:34 Jeremiah 19:4

2 Kings 21:16 · BSB

Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

Numbers 35:33 · BSB

Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Deuteronomy 19:10 · BSB

Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Jeremiah 2:34 · BSB

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 19:4 · BSB

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place w…

“he filled”

Psalm 106:38

Psalm 106:38 · BSB

They 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.

“which”

Ezekiel 33:25 Lamentations 3:42 Jeremiah 15:1 Jeremiah 15:2

Ezekiel 33:25 · BSB

Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

Lamentations 3:42 · BSB

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

Jeremiah 15:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

Jeremiah 15:2 · BSB

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,

5As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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