And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man (A)shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. Then they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. Provide atonement, O Lord, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, (B)and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.’ And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood. So (C)you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

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32 So the Lord (A)will return his [a]blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous (B)and better than he, and killed them with the sword—(C)Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and (D)Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:32 Or bloodshed

33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab and (A)upon the head of his descendants forever. (B)But upon David and his descendants, upon his house and his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord.”

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