14 Bible Verses about Gashing Bodies

Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am Jehovah.

You should never mourn by shaving bald spots on your heads, shaving the edges of your beards, or slashing your bodies.

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. Do not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Both great and small men will die in this land. They will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

So they gave loud cries and they cut themselves with knives and swords till the blood came streaming out all over them.

Gaza will shave its head in mourning. Ashkelon will be destroyed. How long will you cut yourselves, you people left on the plains?

Eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. Their beards were shaved off, their clothes were torn, and cuts were on their bodies. They brought grain offerings and incense to Jehovah's Temple.

They have all shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.'

Day and night in the tombs and in the mountains he cried out. He would cut himself with stones.

Why are you crying? Hazael asked. Because I know the horrible things you will do against the people of Israel, Elisha answered. You will burn their fortresses, slaughter their finest young men, batter their children to death, and rip open their pregnant women.

The people of Samaria are guilty as charged because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed in war, their children will be smashed to death, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Then Menahem sent destruction on the people of Tappuah and the nearby territory. He attacked it because they would not let him come in. He had all the pregnant women cut open.

You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments and tear your breasts. I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.'

And they do not cry to me from their heart when they wail on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble, but they turn away from me.