33 “‘You must not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land,+ and there may be no atonement for the blood that has been spilled on the land except by the blood of the one who spilled it.+

28 When David heard about it later, he said: “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before Jehovah of the bloodguilt+ for Abʹner the son of Ner.