10 Bible Verses about genocide
Most Relevant Verses
Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:
Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.
But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.
But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:
For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.
And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.
Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.
And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.