Deuteronomy 19:10-19 –
Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed
in your land, which the Lord your
God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of
bloodshed. But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a
neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities, the killer shall be
sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over
to the avenger of blood to die. Show no pity. You must purge from
Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with
you. Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in
the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess. One witness is
not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have
committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three
witnesses. If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a
crime, the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence
of the Lord before the
priests and the judges who are in office at the time. The judges must
make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar,
giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite, then do to the false
witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge
the evil from among you.
Jeremiah
7:5-7 – If you
really change your ways and your actions and deal with
each other justly, if you do not
oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed
innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow
other gods to your own harm, then I will
let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Proverbs
23:10-11 – Do not
move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the
fatherless, for their Defender is strong; he will
take up their case against you.
Application:
- · Rulers and people alike need to stop oppressing the foreigner, stop oppressing the fatherless, stop oppressing the widow, stop shedding innocent blood and stop following other gods.
- · Oppressing the widow and the fatherless is strongly denounced.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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