7And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
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Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? …
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; …
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: …
The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Care had been taken by some preceding laws for the vigorous and effectual persecution of a wilful murderer (Deut. 19:11-13), the putting of whom to death was the putting away of the guilt of blood from the land; but if this could not be done, the murderer not being discovered, they must not think that the land was in no danger of contracting any pollution because it was not through any neglect of…
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