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Proverbs 28:17
A murderer haunted by guilt is doomed—there's no helping him.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Someone burdened by bloodguiltwill be a fugitive until death.Let no one help him.
Someone burdened by bloodguiltwill be a fugitive until death.Let no one help him.
Hebrew Names Version
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.
King James Version
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
English Standard Version
If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
New American Standard Bible
A person who is burdened with the guilt of human blood Will be a fugitive until death; no one is to support him!
A person who is burdened with the guilt of human blood Will be a fugitive until death; no one is to support him!
New Century Version
Don't help those who are guilty of murder; let them run until they die.
Don't help those who are guilty of murder; let them run until they die.
Amplified Bible
A man who is burdened with the guilt of human blood (murder) Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him or give him refuge.
A man who is burdened with the guilt of human blood (murder) Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him or give him refuge.
World English Bible
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not stay him.
A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not stay him.
Legacy Standard Bible
A man oppressed with the bloodguilt of lifeWill flee until death; let no one uphold him.
A man oppressed with the bloodguilt of lifeWill flee until death; let no one uphold him.
Berean Standard Bible
A man burdened by bloodguilt will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.
A man burdened by bloodguilt will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.
Contemporary English Version
Don't give help to murderers! Make them stay on the run for as long as they live.
Don't give help to murderers! Make them stay on the run for as long as they live.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let a man weighed down with anyone's blood flee to a pit; give him no support.
Let a man weighed down with anyone's blood flee to a pit; give him no support.
Darby Translation
A man laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.
A man laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.
Easy-to-Read Version
A murderer will never have peace. Don't support such a person.
A murderer will never have peace. Don't support such a person.
George Lamsa Translation
A man who is engaged in shedding of blood shall flee even to the jailer, and no one shall help him.
A man who is engaged in shedding of blood shall flee even to the jailer, and no one shall help him.
Good News Translation
Someone guilty of murder is digging his own grave as fast as he can. Don't try to stop him.
Someone guilty of murder is digging his own grave as fast as he can. Don't try to stop him.
Lexham English Bible
A person who is burdened with the blood of another, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.
A person who is burdened with the blood of another, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.
Literal Translation
Any man oppressed with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; let them not uphold him.
Any man oppressed with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; let them not uphold him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that by violece sheddeth eny mans bloude, shal be a rennagate vnto his graue, and no man shal be able to sucor him.
He that by violece sheddeth eny mans bloude, shal be a rennagate vnto his graue, and no man shal be able to sucor him.
American Standard Version
A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.
A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.
Bible in Basic English
One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.
A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.
King James Version (1611)
A man that doth violence to the blood of any person, shall flie to the pit, let no man stay him.
A man that doth violence to the blood of any person, shall flie to the pit, let no man stay him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that by violence shedeth any mans blood, shalbe a runnagate vnto his graue, and no man shalbe able to succour hym.
He that by violence shedeth any mans blood, shalbe a runnagate vnto his graue, and no man shalbe able to succour hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As he that lays hold of a dog’s tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another’s cause.
As he that lays hold of a dog’s tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another’s cause.
English Revised Version
A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.
A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
No man susteyneth a man that falsly chalengith the blood of a man, if he fleeth `til to the lake.
No man susteyneth a man that falsly chalengith the blood of a man, if he fleeth `til to the lake.
Update Bible Version
[A] man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
[A] man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Webster's Bible Translation
A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
New English Translation
The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
New King James Version
A man burdened with bloodshed will flee into a pit; Let no one help him.
A man burdened with bloodshed will flee into a pit; Let no one help him.
New Living Translation
A murderer's tormented conscience will drive him into the grave. Don't protect him!
A murderer's tormented conscience will drive him into the grave. Don't protect him!
New Life Bible
A man who is loaded down with the guilt of human blood will run in fear until death. Let no one help him.
A man who is loaded down with the guilt of human blood will run in fear until death. Let no one help him.
New Revised Standard
If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.
If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A man oppressed with a person's blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.
A man oppressed with a person's blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
Revised Standard Version
If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
Young's Literal Translation
A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.
A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.
Contextual Overview
17 A murderer haunted by guilt is doomed—there's no helping him.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 9:6, Exodus 21:14, Numbers 35:14-34, 1 Kings 21:19, 1 Kings 21:23, 2 Kings 9:26, 2 Chronicles 24:21-25, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:5, Acts 28:4
Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - we saw Genesis 44:16 - God hath Numbers 35:20 - if he thrust Deuteronomy 19:11 - But if any Deuteronomy 21:1 - General 2 Samuel 3:30 - slew Abner 2 Samuel 13:34 - Absalom fled 1 Kings 2:6 - let 1 Kings 2:31 - that thou 2 Kings 15:13 - a full month 2 Chronicles 18:34 - he died Psalms 140:10 - into deep Proverbs 1:18 - General Jeremiah 41:15 - escaped Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring Habakkuk 2:17 - because Matthew 2:16 - and slew 1 Timothy 1:9 - manslayers
Cross-References
Genesis 28:1
So Isaac called in Jacob and blessed him. Then he ordered him, "Don't take a Caananite wife. Leave at once. Go to Paddan Aram to the family of your mother's father, Bethuel. Get a wife for yourself from the daughters of your uncle Laban.
So Isaac called in Jacob and blessed him. Then he ordered him, "Don't take a Caananite wife. Leave at once. Go to Paddan Aram to the family of your mother's father, Bethuel. Get a wife for yourself from the daughters of your uncle Laban.
Genesis 28:13
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."
Exodus 3:6
Then he said, "I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
Then he said, "I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
Judges 13:22
Samson And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil in God 's sight. God put them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years. At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of Dan. His wife was barren and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and bear a son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a son. No razor will touch his head—the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression." The woman went to her husband and said, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the angel of God—terror laced with glory! I didn't ask him where he was from and he didn't tell me his name, but he told me, ‘You're pregnant. You're going to give birth to a son. Don't drink any wine or beer and eat nothing ritually unclean. The boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of birth to the day of his death.'" Manoah prayed to God : "Master, let the man of God you sent come to us again and teach us how to raise this boy who is to be born." God listened to Manoah. God's angel came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field; her husband Manoah wasn't there with her. She jumped to her feet and ran and told her husband: "He's back! The man who came to me that day!" Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "I am." Manoah said, "So. When what you say comes true, what do you have to tell us about this boy and his work?" The angel of God said to Manoah, "Keep in mind everything I told the woman. Eat nothing that comes from the vine: Drink no wine or beer; eat no ritually unclean foods. She's to observe everything I commanded her." Manoah said to the angel of God, "Please, stay with us a little longer; we'll prepare a meal for you—a young goat." God 's angel said to Manoah, "Even if I stay, I won't eat your food. But if you want to prepare a Whole-Burnt-Offering for God , go ahead—offer it!" Manoah had no idea that he was talking to the angel of God. Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words come true, we'd like to honor you." The angel of God said, "What's this? You ask for my name? You wouldn't understand—it's sheer wonder." So Manoah took the kid and the Grain-Offering and sacrificed them on a rock altar to God who works wonders. As the flames leapt up from the altar to heaven, God 's angel also ascended in the altar flames. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground. Manoah and his wife never saw the angel of God again. Only then did Manoah realize that this was God 's angel. He said to his wife, "We're as good as dead! We've looked on God!"
Samson And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil in God 's sight. God put them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years. At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of Dan. His wife was barren and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and bear a son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a son. No razor will touch his head—the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression." The woman went to her husband and said, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the angel of God—terror laced with glory! I didn't ask him where he was from and he didn't tell me his name, but he told me, ‘You're pregnant. You're going to give birth to a son. Don't drink any wine or beer and eat nothing ritually unclean. The boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of birth to the day of his death.'" Manoah prayed to God : "Master, let the man of God you sent come to us again and teach us how to raise this boy who is to be born." God listened to Manoah. God's angel came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field; her husband Manoah wasn't there with her. She jumped to her feet and ran and told her husband: "He's back! The man who came to me that day!" Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "I am." Manoah said, "So. When what you say comes true, what do you have to tell us about this boy and his work?" The angel of God said to Manoah, "Keep in mind everything I told the woman. Eat nothing that comes from the vine: Drink no wine or beer; eat no ritually unclean foods. She's to observe everything I commanded her." Manoah said to the angel of God, "Please, stay with us a little longer; we'll prepare a meal for you—a young goat." God 's angel said to Manoah, "Even if I stay, I won't eat your food. But if you want to prepare a Whole-Burnt-Offering for God , go ahead—offer it!" Manoah had no idea that he was talking to the angel of God. Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words come true, we'd like to honor you." The angel of God said, "What's this? You ask for my name? You wouldn't understand—it's sheer wonder." So Manoah took the kid and the Grain-Offering and sacrificed them on a rock altar to God who works wonders. As the flames leapt up from the altar to heaven, God 's angel also ascended in the altar flames. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground. Manoah and his wife never saw the angel of God again. Only then did Manoah realize that this was God 's angel. He said to his wife, "We're as good as dead! We've looked on God!"
2 Chronicles 5:14
That completed the work King Solomon did on The Temple of God . He then brought in the holy offerings of his father David, the silver and the gold and the artifacts. He placed them all in the treasury of God's Temple. Bringing all this to a climax, Solomon got all the leaders together in Jerusalem—all the chiefs of tribes and the family patriarchs—to move the Chest of the Covenant of God from Zion and install it in The Temple. All the men of Israel assembled before the king on the feast day of the seventh month, the Feast of Booths. When all the leaders of Israel were ready, the Levites took up the Chest. They carried the Chest, the Tent of Meeting, and all the sacred things in the Tent used in worship. The priests, all Levites, carried them. King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel were there before the Chest, worshiping and sacrificing huge numbers of sheep and cattle—so many that no one could keep track. The priests brought the Chest of the Covenant of God to its place in the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim. The outspread wings of the cherubim formed a canopy over the Chest and its poles. The ends of the poles were so long that they stuck out from the entrance of the Inner Sanctuary, but were not noticeable further out—they're still there today. There was nothing in the Chest itself but the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where God made a covenant with Israel after bringing them up from Egypt. The priests then left the Holy Place. All the priests there were consecrated, regardless of rank or assignment; and all the Levites who were musicians were there—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families, dressed in their worship robes; the choir and orchestra assembled on the east side of the Altar and were joined by 120 priests blowing trumpets. The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to God —orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to God : Yes! God is good! His loyal love goes on forever! Then a billowing cloud filled The Temple of God . The priests couldn't even carry out their duties because of the cloud—the glory of God !—that filled The Temple of God.
That completed the work King Solomon did on The Temple of God . He then brought in the holy offerings of his father David, the silver and the gold and the artifacts. He placed them all in the treasury of God's Temple. Bringing all this to a climax, Solomon got all the leaders together in Jerusalem—all the chiefs of tribes and the family patriarchs—to move the Chest of the Covenant of God from Zion and install it in The Temple. All the men of Israel assembled before the king on the feast day of the seventh month, the Feast of Booths. When all the leaders of Israel were ready, the Levites took up the Chest. They carried the Chest, the Tent of Meeting, and all the sacred things in the Tent used in worship. The priests, all Levites, carried them. King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel were there before the Chest, worshiping and sacrificing huge numbers of sheep and cattle—so many that no one could keep track. The priests brought the Chest of the Covenant of God to its place in the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim. The outspread wings of the cherubim formed a canopy over the Chest and its poles. The ends of the poles were so long that they stuck out from the entrance of the Inner Sanctuary, but were not noticeable further out—they're still there today. There was nothing in the Chest itself but the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where God made a covenant with Israel after bringing them up from Egypt. The priests then left the Holy Place. All the priests there were consecrated, regardless of rank or assignment; and all the Levites who were musicians were there—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families, dressed in their worship robes; the choir and orchestra assembled on the east side of the Altar and were joined by 120 priests blowing trumpets. The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to God —orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to God : Yes! God is good! His loyal love goes on forever! Then a billowing cloud filled The Temple of God . The priests couldn't even carry out their duties because of the cloud—the glory of God !—that filled The Temple of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Watch your step when you enter God's house. Enter to learn. That's far better than mindlessly offering a sacrifice, Doing more harm than good.
Watch your step when you enter God's house. Enter to learn. That's far better than mindlessly offering a sacrifice, Doing more harm than good.
Matthew 17:6
When the disciples heard it, they fell flat on their faces, scared to death. But Jesus came over and touched them. "Don't be afraid." When they opened their eyes and looked around all they saw was Jesus, only Jesus.
When the disciples heard it, they fell flat on their faces, scared to death. But Jesus came over and touched them. "Don't be afraid." When they opened their eyes and looked around all they saw was Jesus, only Jesus.
1 Peter 4:17
It's judgment time for God's own family. We're first in line. If it starts with us, think what it's going to be like for those who refuse God's Message! If good people barely make it, What's in store for the bad? So if you find life difficult because you're doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it.
It's judgment time for God's own family. We're first in line. If it starts with us, think what it's going to be like for those who refuse God's Message! If good people barely make it, What's in store for the bad? So if you find life difficult because you're doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person,.... That sheds the blood of any in a violent manner; that lays violent hands upon a club, and takes away his life, contrary to the law in Genesis 9:6. Or, "that is pressed because of the blood of any person" q; pressed in his own mind; filled with horror, and tortured in his conscience, for the innocent blood he has shed: the letter "daleth" in the word "Adam" is lesser than usual; and Vitringa, on Isaiah 34:6; observes, that it signifies a man red with blood, oppressed in his conscience, and depressed by God, which this minute letter is a symbol of; and thinks it applicable to Edom or Rome: or it signifies one pressed, pursued, and dose followed by the avenger of blood;
shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him; support or help him. When such a murderer flees, and is pursued, and unawares falls into a pit, or is like to do so, let no man warn him of it, or help him out of it; or if he flees to a pit to hide himself, let no man hold him or detain him there, or suffer him to continue in such a lurking place, but discover him or pluck him out; or, if he is a fugitive and a vagabond all his days, as Cain, the murderer of his brother, was, till he comes to the pit of the grave, let no man yield him any support or sustenance.
q עשק בדם "pressus propter sanguinem animae", Amama, Cartwright; so R. Joseph Kimchi in D. Kimchii Sepher Shorash rad. עשק.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The case of willful murder, not the lesser crime of manslaughter for which the cities of refuge were appointed. One, with that guilt on his soul, is simply hasting on to his own destruction. Those who see him must simply stand aloof, and let God’s judgments fulfill themselves.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 28:17. That doeth violence to the blood — He who either slays the innocent, or procures his destruction, may flee to hide himself: but let none give him protection. The law demands his life, because he is a murderer; and let none deprive justice of its claim. Murder is the most horrid crime in the sight of God and man; it scarcely ever goes unpunished, and is universally execrated.
