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.
Utterly destroy
Ox and sheep
General references
Bible References
Utterly destroy
Leviticus 27:28
However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah.
Numbers 24:20
He looked at Amalek and continued his discourse. He said: Amalek was the first of the nations but he will end in destruction.
Deuteronomy 13:15
strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:16
Do not spare anyone's life in the cities of these nations Jehovah your God is giving you as your property.
Joshua 6:17
The city and everything in it will be destroyed. It belongs to Jehovah. Only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house will live. Because she hid the messengers we sent.
Slay
Exodus 20:5
Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.
Numbers 31:17
So kill all the Midianite boys and every Midianite woman who has gone to bed with a man.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.
Ox and sheep
Genesis 3:17
He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.
General references
Numbers 31:15
Moses asked them: Have you spared all the women?
Psalm 149:7
to take vengeance on the nations, to punish the people of the world,
Jeremiah 51:22
I will use you to crush men and women. I will use you to crush the old and the young. I will use you to crush young men and women.