10 Bible Verses about genocide

Most Relevant Verses

Deuteronomy 20:17

but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD your God has commanded you;

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

Numbers 31:18

But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Exodus 32:28

The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Deuteronomy 20:16

But of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

Deuteronomy 15:6

For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

Deuteronomy 13:16

You shall gather all its plunder into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God: and it shall be a ruin forever; it shall not be built again.

Deuteronomy 12:3

and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

Joshua 6:21

They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

From Thematic Bible


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