9 Bible Verses about Vindictiveness

Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely.”’”

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.

Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so;

When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.