14 Bible Verses about Mutilation
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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.
For no man in whom there is a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or a lame man, or disfigured, or deformed,
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a running sore, or having scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Jehovah.
And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.
And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.
And I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by the fire.
He who is wounded, crushed, or who has his male member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of Jehovah.
And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones.
From Thematic Bible
Mutilation » Of the body, general references to
And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.
And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.
And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.
And I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by the fire.