MASSACRE

Passages on this topic · 47

• Numbers 31:7

  They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.

• Numbers 31:8

  They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

• Deuteronomy 2:34

  We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.

• Deuteronomy 3:6

  We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

• Deuteronomy 20:13

  When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;

• Deuteronomy 20:16

  But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

• Joshua 8:24

  When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

• Joshua 8:25

  All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

• Joshua 8:26

  For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

• Joshua 10:28

  Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:29

  Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

• Joshua 10:30

  Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:31

  Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:32

  Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.

• Joshua 10:34

  Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it.

• Joshua 10:35

  They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

• Joshua 10:36

  Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.

• Joshua 10:37

  They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

• Joshua 10:38

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:39

  He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

• Joshua 10:40

  So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

• Joshua 11:11

  They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

• Joshua 11:12

  Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

• 1 Kings 18:40

  Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

• 2 Kings 10:1

  Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,

• 2 Kings 10:2

  “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,

• 2 Kings 10:3

  Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

• 2 Kings 10:4

  But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”

• 2 Kings 10:5

  He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”

• 2 Kings 10:6

  Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

• 2 Kings 10:7

  When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 10:8

  A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

• 2 Kings 10:18

  Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

• 2 Kings 10:19

  Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

• 2 Kings 10:20

  Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.

• 2 Kings 10:21

  Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.

• 2 Kings 10:22

  He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!” So he brought robes out to them.

• 2 Kings 10:23

  Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

• 2 Kings 10:24

  So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

• 2 Kings 10:25

  As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.

• 2 Kings 10:26

  They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

• 2 Kings 10:27

  They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

• 2 Kings 10:28

  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

• 2 Kings 11:1

  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

• 2 Kings 14:7

  He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

• 2 Kings 15:16

  Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.