Psalm
106:38
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and
of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land
was polluted with blood.
a. NLT: They shed
innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
b. NIV: They shed
innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to
the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.
c. Young’s Literal
Translation: And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their
daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is
profaned with blood.
d. Amplified Bible:
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with
their blood.
e. Septuagint: and
shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed
to the idols of Chanaan; and the land was defiled with blood.
f. Stone Edition
Torah/Writings/Prophets: They spilled innocent blood, the blood of their sons
and daughters whom they sacrificed to the Canaanite idols; and the land was
polluted by the blood-guilt.
1. “And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and
of their daughters…”
a. shed [8210 * shaphak][Strong:
a primitive root; to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a
solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint,
money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out:--cast (up), gush out, pour (out),
shed(-der, out), slip.]
b. innocent [5355 *
naqiy][Strong: innocent:--blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless,
innocent, quit.]
c. blood [1818 * dam][Strong:
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy,
the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e.
drops of blood):--blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.]
d. sons [1121 * ben][Strong:
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and
figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
condition, etc., (like 1, 251,
etc.)):--+ afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed
one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one
born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in,
child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very
fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew,
old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, +
steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est),
whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.]
e. daughters [1323
* bath][Strong: a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of
relationship, literally and figuratively):--apple (of the eye), branch,
company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.]
f. The Scriptures
say quite a bit about shedding innocent blood.
1). 2 Kings 21:16 Moreover
Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had
filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made
Judah to sin, in doing that which
was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2). 2 Kings 24:1-4 In
his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his
servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
24:2 And the Lord sent
against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the
Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to
destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his
servants the prophets.
24:3 Surely at the
commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of
his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
24:4 And also for
the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood;
which the Lord would not pardon.
3). Psalm 94:20-23 Shall
the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a
law?
94:21 They gather
themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent
blood.
94:22 But the Lord is
my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
94:23 And he shall
bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own
wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.
2. “…whom they sacrificed unto the
idols of Canaan:
a. sacrificed [2076
* zabach][Strong: a primitive root; to slaughter an animal (usually in
sacrifice):--kill, offer, (do) sacrifice, slay.]
b. idols [6091 * ‘atsab][Strong:
an (idolatrous) image:--idol, image.]
1). The Apostle Paul
makes it clear that idols, though they are mere pieces of stone or wood or
metal, there are demons behind the worship of them.
2). 1 Corinthians
10:19, 20 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered
in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
10:20 But I say,
that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not
to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
c. Canaan [3667 * Kena’an][Strong:
humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him:--Canaan,
merchant, traffick.]
d. The fact that
Israel engaged in child sacrifice is clearly revealed in Scripture.
1). Isaiah 57:3-5 But
draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the
whore.
57:4 Against whom do
ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the
tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
57:5 Enflaming
yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the
valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
2). Jeremiah 19:4, 5
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned
incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known,
nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
19:5 They have built
also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings
unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
3). Ezekiel 16:20,
21 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne
unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of
thy whoredoms a small matter,
16:21 That thou hast
slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire
for them?
4). Ezekiel 23:36-39
The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah
and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
23:37 That they have
committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they
committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to
pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
23:38 Moreover this
they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and
have profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 For when they
had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my
sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine
house.
3. “…and the land was polluted with
blood.”
a. polluted [2610 *
chaneph][Strong: a primitive root; to soil, especially in a moral
sense:--corrupt, defile, X greatly, pollute, profane.]
