Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Cut themselves
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Bible References
Cut themselves
Leviticus 19:28
You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
Micah 6:7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Mark 5:5
And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.
Mark 9:22
And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.
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Judges 10:14
Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.