CRUELTY

Passages on this topic · 34

• Genesis 16:6

  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

• Genesis 21:9

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• Genesis 21:10

  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:11

  The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

• Genesis 21:12

  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.

• Genesis 21:13

  I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Exodus 5:6

  The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 5:8

  The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

• Exodus 5:9

  Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

• Exodus 5:10

  The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.

• Exodus 5:11

  Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”

• Exodus 5:12

  So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

• Exodus 5:13

  The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”

• Exodus 5:14

  The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”

• Exodus 5:15

  Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

• Exodus 5:16

  No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

• Exodus 5:17

  But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

• Exodus 5:18

  Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”

• 1 Samuel 1:4

  When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

• 1 Samuel 1:5

  but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

• Isaiah 13:16

  Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

• Isaiah 13:18

  Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

• Matthew 26:67

  Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 27:28

  They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

• Matthew 27:29

  They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Matthew 27:30

  They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

• Matthew 27:31

  When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

• Luke 22:64

  Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

• John 19:3

  They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.