10 Bible Verses about genocide

Most Relevant Verses

Deuteronomy 20:17

But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as Jehovah your God has commanded you,

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and strike Amalek, and completely destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Numbers 31:18

But all the female children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Exodus 32:28

And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Deuteronomy 20:16

But of the cities of these people, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.

Deuteronomy 15:6

For Jehovah your God blesses you as He promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

Deuteronomy 13:16

And you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its street, and shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoil, every bit of it, for Jehovah your God. And it shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.

Deuteronomy 12:3

And you shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and burn their pillars with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.

Joshua 6:21

And they completely destroyed all in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

From Thematic Bible


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