and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
Parallel translations
- WEB and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- KJV And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
- NKJV and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.
- NASB and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord was unwilling to forgive.
- NLT who had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood. The Lord would not forgive this.
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The judgment is also for the innocent blood Manasseh shed, which the Lord would not pardon. God holds the shedding of innocent blood as a grave and accountable sin.
Overview
Beyond idolatry, Manasseh had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, a defilement of the land that demanded justice (Num. 35:33). The Lord's refusal to pardon at this point shows the seriousness of unrepented bloodguilt. It magnifies the gospel, where even such sins find forgiveness through the innocent blood of Christ, which speaks a better word (Heb. 12:24).
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- 2 Kgs 21:16Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Jer 15:1–2Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
- Jer 2:34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
- Deut 19:10Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
- Ps 106:38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
- Num 35:33Do 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 one who shed it.
- Ezek 33:25Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
- Lam 3:42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
- Jer 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
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