“When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”
Theological principle undergirds watchman's accountability: if prophet fails to warn wicked receiving death sentence from YHWH, prophet shares culpability for blood of the perished. Wicked dies in iniquity; watchman's failure to warn bears portion of responsibility; prophetic silence constitutes complicity.
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