25 Bible Verses about Killing Sons And Daughters

While they were on their way, David heard this rumor: Absalom has killed all the king's sons, and not a single one is left.

You should not burden your heart with the idea that all the king's sons are dead. Your Majesty, only Amnon is dead.

As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder. She gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed.

They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.

At Riblah he put Zedekiah's sons to death while Zedekiah was looking on, and he also had the officials of Judah executed.

The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons as Zedekiah watched. He also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.

I let them defile themselves with their own offerings, and I let them sacrifice their first-born sons. This was to punish them and show them that I am Jehovah.'

You offer your children as sacrifices by burning them alive. You dishonor yourselves with all your disgusting idols to this day. Should you be allowed to ask me for help, nation of Israel? As I am alive, declares the Lord Jehovah, you will not be allowed to ask me for help.'

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them as food.

The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary on the same day to profane it. Then they did within my house.

I have seen Ephraim planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

The people of Ephraim are like sick plants. Their roots are dried up. They have no fruit. Even if they were to have children, I would kill their dear children.

No mater how many his children, their fate is the sword. His offspring will never have enough to eat.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: I am going to punish them. The young men will die by the sword because of war. Their sons and daughters will die by famine.

Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.

They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood.

Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.

It will happen when any attempt to prophesy, the father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him: You will not live, for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. They will stab him through when he prophesies.

Brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our fathers so that they cast out their young children and they did not survive.

You invited my enemies to hold a festival of terror all around me. No one could escape on that day of your anger. They murdered my children, whom I had raised and loved.

Then he picked up the knife to kill him.