10 Bible Verses about genocide

Most Relevant Verses

Deuteronomy 20:17

You must completely destroy them—the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite—as the Lord your God has commanded you,

1 Samuel 15:3

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.’”

Numbers 31:18

but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.

Exodus 32:28

The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people.

Deuteronomy 20:16

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.

Deuteronomy 15:6

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.

Deuteronomy 13:16

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.

Deuteronomy 12:3

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.

Joshua 6:21

They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword—every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

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