RETALIATION

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• Exodus 21:23

  But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

• Exodus 21:24

  eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

• Exodus 21:25

  burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

• Leviticus 19:18

  “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 24:17

  “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

• Leviticus 24:18

  He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

• Leviticus 24:19

  If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

• Leviticus 24:20

  fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

• Leviticus 24:21

  He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

• Leviticus 24:22

  You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:20

  Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:21

  Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

• Deuteronomy 25:17

  Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;

• Deuteronomy 25:18

  how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

• Deuteronomy 25:19

  Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.

• Judges 8:7

  Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

• Judges 8:8

  He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

• Judges 8:13

  Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

• Judges 8:14

  He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

• Judges 8:15

  He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”

• Judges 8:16

  He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

• Judges 8:17

  He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

• Judges 8:18

  Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. Each one resembled the children of a king.”

• Judges 8:19

  He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”

• Judges 8:20

  He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up, and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.

• Judges 8:21

  Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.

• 1 Samuel 15:1

  Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

• 1 Samuel 15:2

  Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:3

  Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

• 1 Samuel 15:4

  Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

• 1 Samuel 15:5

  Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

• 1 Samuel 15:6

  Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:7

  Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:8

  He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

• 2 Samuel 3:27

  When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

• 2 Samuel 3:30

  So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

• 2 Samuel 6:21

  David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 6:22

  I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the servants of whom you have spoken, they will honor me.”

• 2 Samuel 6:23

  Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

• 1 Kings 2:5

  “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

• 1 Kings 2:6

  Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

• 1 Kings 2:8

  “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

• 1 Kings 2:9

  Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

• Psalms 10:2

  In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

• Proverbs 20:22

  Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

• Proverbs 24:29

  Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

• Proverbs 26:27

  Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

• Isaiah 33:1

  Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

• Matthew 5:38

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

• Matthew 5:39

  But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• Matthew 5:40

  If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

• Matthew 5:41

  Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Matthew 5:43

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

• Matthew 5:44

  But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

• Matthew 7:1

  “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

• Matthew 7:2

  For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

• Luke 9:52

  and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

• Luke 9:53

  They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

• Luke 9:54

  When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

• Luke 9:55

  But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

• Luke 9:56

  For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

• Romans 12:17

  Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

• Romans 12:19

  Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

• 1 Corinthians 6:7

  Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

• 1 Corinthians 6:8

  No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:15

  See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

• 1 Peter 3:9

  not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.