10 Bible Verses about genocide
Most Relevant Verses
You must completely destroy them—the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite—as the Lord your God has commanded you,
Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.
Samaria will bear her guilt
because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people.
However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
When the Lord your God blesses you as He has promised you, you will lend to many nations but not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn up the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever; it is not to be rebuilt.
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword—every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.