Leviticus 24:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 9:5-6
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. …
Deuteronomy 19:11-12
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: …
Exodus 21:12-14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. …
Numbers 35:30-31
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. …
Deuteronomy 27:24
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Topics

Avenger of Blood Commandments Crime Evil for Evil Eye for Eye Fratricide Homicide Killing

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-23)

Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. We have here an account of the evil manners of a certain nameless mongrel Israelite, and the good laws occasioned thereby. I. The offender was the son of an Egyptian father and an Israelitish mother (Lev. 24:10); his mother was of the tribe of Dan, Lev. 24:11. Neither he nor his father is named, but his mother only, who was an Israelite. This notice is taken…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.