So he said, “Now let it indeed be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, but the rest of you shall be considered innocent.”

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and guilt for bloodshed will not be on you.

You shall not pity him, but you shall eliminate the guilt for the bloodshed of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well for you.

Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, Lord, and do not place the guilt for innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the guilt for bloodshed shall be forgiven them.

So you shall remove the guilt for innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Various Laws

“If there is a dispute between people and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they declare the righteous innocent and pronounce the wicked guilty,

‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to attack an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

And it shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house outside will have his blood on his own head, and we will be innocent; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great victory for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

But David said to Abishai, “Do not kill him, for who can reach out with his hand against the Lord’s anointed and remain innocent?”

Afterward, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

Then two hundred men went with Absalom from Jerusalem, who were invited and went innocently, for they did not know anything.

Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent; behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?

Furthermore, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin into which he misled Judah, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord was unwilling to forgive.

Eliphaz Says the Innocent Do Not Suffer

Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,

“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?

If the whip kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure, And I am innocent in your eyes.’

The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

The righteous see and are glad, And the innocent mock them, saying,

He will rescue one who is not innocent, And he will be rescued due to the cleanness of your hands.”

He may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it And the innocent will divide the silver.

‘I am pure, without wrongdoing; I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.