14 Bible Verses about Mutilation
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You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.
For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar.
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
"No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.
Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.
From Thematic Bible
Mutilation » Of the body, general references to
Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
