14 Bible Verses about Gashing Bodies

Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.

Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.

And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.

And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.

Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay,

there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.

All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.

And always both night and day he cried in the mountains and in the graves and beat himself with stones.

And Hazael said, "Why weepeth my lord?" And he answered, "For I know that thou shalt do evil unto the children of Israel: their strong cities thou shalt set on fire, and their young men thou shalt slay with the sword, and shalt dash out the brains of their sucking children: and all to tear their women with child."

As for Samaria, they shall be made waste. And why? They are disobedient unto their God. They shall perish with the sword, their children shall be slain, and their women great with child shall be ripped up.

The same time, Menahem destroyed Tappuah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah - because they opened not to him - he smote, and rent all the women with child.

The same shalt thou drink, and sup it out even to the dregs. Yea, thou shalt eat up the broken pieces of it, and so tear thine own breasts: for even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God.

They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.