Cross references
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.
1 Kings 2:31 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Numbers 35:33 (6 votes) and Deuteronomy 21:8–9 (6 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 9 to Acts 28.
Which verses does 1 Kings 2:31 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Numbers 35:336 votes
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 one who shed it.
- Deuteronomy 21:8–96 votes
Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for. So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
- Exodus 21:145 votes
But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
- 2 Samuel 3:283 votes
Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
- Proverbs 28:173 votes
A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
- Genesis 9:5–62 votes
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Deuteronomy 19:12–132 votes
the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die. 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.
- 2 Kings 9:262 votes
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
- Acts 28:42 votes
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Which verses point to 1 Kings 2:31?
The 10 strongest of 23.