Thematic Bible: Cruelty
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Ambition » Connected with » Cruelty
Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed and establishes a city with iniquity!
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Anger » Connected with » Cruelty
A curse is on their anger, because it is so fierce. And a curse is on their fury, because it is so cruel. I will scatter them throughout the land of Israel. I will disperse them among its people.
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's anger is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Cruelty » Examples of
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
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They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.
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Adoni-bezek fled and they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
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Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
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Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.
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They put him into a water pit. It had no water in it.
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So everyone cut off a tree limb. They followed Abimelech and piled the wood up against the stronghold. They set the fort on fire. All the people of the fort died. About a thousand men and women died.
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Nahash answered: I will make a treaty with you on one condition. I will put out everyone's right eye and so bring disgrace on all Israel.
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So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
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He commanded the mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the blazing furnace.
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The soldiers' planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any from swimming away and escaping.
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Cruelty » To animals
This time, when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down. Balaam lost his temper and began to beat the donkey with his stick.
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A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is terrible.
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David captured seventeen hundred of his cavalry and twenty thousand of his foot soldiers. He kept enough horses for a hundred chariots and crippled (hamstrung) all the rest.
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David took one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him. David also disabled all but one hundred of their horses so that they could not pull chariots.
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Cruelty » General references to
Simeon and Levi are brothers. They use their weapons to commit violence.
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Do not surrender me to the will of my opponents. False witnesses have risen against me. They breathe out violence.
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The merciful man does himself good. The cruel man troubles his own flesh.
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Cruelty » Instances of » Soldiers to jesus
They came to him, and said: Hail, King of the Jews! They struck him with their hands.
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They blindfolded him, and asked him, saying: Prophesy: who is it that struck you?
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Cruelty » Instances of » Of jews to jesus
They spat in his face and hit him, saying:
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They took off his clothes and dressed him in a scarlet robe. They made a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They placed a rod in his right hand. Then they bowed down on their knees before him. They mocked him, saying: Long life to the King of the Jews. They spat on him and hit him on the head with the rod. read more.
After they mocked him, they took off the robe. He was dressed in his garments and he was led away to be impaled.
After they mocked him, they took off the robe. He was dressed in his garments and he was led away to be impaled.
Cruelty » Instances of » Of sarah to hagar
Your servant is in your hands, Abram said. Do with her whatever you think best. Then Sarai mistreated Hagar. So she ran away from her.
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Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was laughing in mockery. She said to Abraham: Get rid of that slave woman and her son. This upset Abraham because of his son Ishmael. read more.
God said to Abraham: Do not be upset about the boy and your slave. Listen to what Sarah says, because through Isaac your descendants will carry on your name. I will make the slave's son into a nation also, because he is your child. Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.
God said to Abraham: Do not be upset about the boy and your slave. Listen to what Sarah says, because through Isaac your descendants will carry on your name. I will make the slave's son into a nation also, because he is your child. Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.
Cruelty » Instances of » Peninnah to hannah
The day came for Elkanah to make his offering. So he gave a part of the feast to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters. He gave a double portion to Hannah. Hannah was very dear to him even though Jehovah had not given her children. The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children. read more.
Year after year when Peninnah went to the Temple of Jehovah, she kept on provoking Hannah. It bothered Hannah so much she wept and did not eat.
Year after year when Peninnah went to the Temple of Jehovah, she kept on provoking Hannah. It bothered Hannah so much she wept and did not eat.
Boast no more so proudly. Remove arrogance from your mouth. Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and he measures his actions (deeds).
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Cruelty » Instances of » In war
And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.
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Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.
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Cruelty » Instances of » Egyptians to the israelites
Pharaoh gave these orders to the slave drivers and foremen: Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God. read more.
Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies. The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said: Why did you not force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies. The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said: Why did you not force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.
War » Often attended by » Cruelty
Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
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They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. They put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored. The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood. read more.
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway. The music of the young men has come to an end.
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway. The music of the young men has come to an end.