that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Parallel translations
- KJV That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
- BSB As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
- NKJV that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
- NASB so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
- NLT “As a result, this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God’s prophets from the creation of the world—
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- Gen 9:5–6I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
- Rev 18:20–24“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Num 35:33“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- Jer 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Isa 26:21For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
- Jer 51:56For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of recompenses. He will surely repay.
- Ps 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
- Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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