Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Armies » Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished
This is what the Lord says: "Because the Ammonites have committed three crimes -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped open Gilead's pregnant women so they could expand their territory.
Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle, they are coming against you, fair Babylon!
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
Captive » Cruelty to » Ravished
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away.
Mill » And captives
The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
Mills » Male captives often employed at
When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, "Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!"
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
Servant » Bond » Captives of war became slaves
Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman's wife.
However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city -- all its plunder -- you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.
When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners, if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife, you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails, read more.
discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife. If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife. If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria.
And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?
War » Often attended by » Cruelty
So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. read more.
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.