7 Bible Verses about Mercy, Examples Of

But Saul said, "No one will be put to death on this day, because {today} Yahweh has provided deliverance in Israel."

But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh's anointed one and remained blameless?"

Then David said, "What [is] it to me or to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be an adversary today? [Should] anyone be put to death in Israel? Do I not know today that I [am] king over Israel?"

Solomon said, "If he is a son of noble character, not a hair of his [head] will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, then he will die."

And he said, "You shall not kill. Would you kill [those] whom you took captive with the sword or with the bow? Put food and water before them that they may eat and drink and then go to their master."

But he turned around [and] rebuked them,

And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said to them, "The [one] of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!"