Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Armies » Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished
Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped up the women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone set in array, like a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah. Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored. They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
Captive » Cruelty to » Ravished
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah. Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored. They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Mill » And captives
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.
They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
Mills » Male captives often employed at
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who slew many of us.
They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
Servant » Bond » Captives of war became slaves
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take unto yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive, And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire unto her, that you would have her to be your wife; Then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and trim her nails; read more.
And she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humiliated her.
And she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humiliated her.
They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
And now you purpose to subjugate the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
War » Often attended by » Cruelty
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah. Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored. They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood. read more.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.