Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Ox and sheep

Bible References

Utterly destroy

Leviticus 27:28
"'Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.
Numbers 24:20
Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: "Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish."
Deuteronomy 13:15
you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.
Deuteronomy 20:16
As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
Joshua 6:17
The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies we sent.

Slay

Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
Numbers 31:17
Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities."

Ox and sheep

Genesis 3:17
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to futility -- not willingly but because of God who subjected it -- in hope

General references

Numbers 31:15
Moses said to them, "Have you allowed all the women to live?
Psalm 149:7
in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.
Jeremiah 51:22
I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

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