Deuteronomy 19:13 BSB

Deuteronomy 19:13

You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

KJV

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It may be alluded to to show that in Jesus Christ there is no refuge for presumptuous sinners, that go on still in their trespasses. If we thus sin wilfully, sin and go on in it, there remains no sacrifice, Heb. x.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תָח֥וֹס	ta.Chos	it will look with pity	H2347 →
עֵֽינְךָ֖	'ei.ne.Kha	eye your	H5869 →
עָלָ֑יו	'a.Lav	on him	H5921 →
וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֧	u.vi.'ar.Ta	and you will remove	H1197 →
דַֽם־	dam-	[the] blood of	H1818 →
הַנָּקִ֛י	ha.na.Ki	the innocent [person]	H5355 →
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	mi.Yis.ra.'El	from Israel	H3478 →
וְט֥וֹב	ve.Tov	and it will be good	H2895 →
לָֽךְ׃ ס	Lakh	to <the> you

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 7:16
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
leads to
- Exodus 23:33
  They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
- Judges 8:27
  From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
- Deuteronomy 7:2
  and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33
  Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
- Deuteronomy 19:21
  You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Through
Deuteronomy 7:2
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
leads to
- Judges 2:2
  and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
- Exodus 23:32–33
  You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
Through
1 Kings 2:31
And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.
leads to
- Numbers 35:33
  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…