'Kill' in the Bible

The murderer rises at dawnto kill the poor and needy,and by night he becomes a thief.

Let those who seek to kill mebe disgraced and humiliated;let those who plan to harm mebe turned back and ashamed.

The wicked one lies in wait for the righteousand seeks to kill him;

Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.By Your power, make them homeless wanderersand bring them down,Lord, our shield.

They kill the widow and the foreignerand murder the fatherless.

God, if only You would kill the wicked—you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me—

If they say—“Come with us!Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!

but they set an ambush to kill themselves;they attack their own lives.

For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them,and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

A slacker’s craving will kill himbecause his hands refuse to work.

a time to kill and a time to heal;a time to tear down and a time to build;

but He will judge the poor righteouslyand execute justice for the oppressed of the land.He will strike the landwith discipline from His mouth,and He will kill the wickedwith a command from His lips.

Then the firstborn of the poor will be well fed,and the impoverished will lie down in safety,but I will kill your root with hunger,and your remnant will be slain.

You will leave your name behindas a curse for My chosen ones,and the Lord God will kill you;but He will give His servants another name.

“I will ordain four kinds of judgment for them”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land to devour and destroy.

because he didn’t kill me in the wombso that my mother might have been my grave,her womb eternally pregnant.

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to Ahab son of Kolaiah and to Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying a lie to you in My name: “I am about to hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

Jeremiah replied to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, you will kill me, won’t you? Besides, if I give you advice, you won’t listen to me anyway.”

King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private, “As the Lord lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who want to take your life.”

If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king; don’t hide anything from us and we won’t kill you. Also, what did the king say to you?’

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, “Let me go kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and scatter all of Judah that has gathered to you so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

However, there were 10 men among them who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he stopped and did not kill them along with their companions.

You profane Me in front of My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread; you kill those who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to My people, who listen to lies.

The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses with fire.

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’in the presence of those who kill you?Yet you will be only a man, not a god,in the hands of those who kill you.

Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had assigned to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He came and said to him, “Don’t kill the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”

Ephraim is struck down;their roots are withered;they cannot bear fruit.Even if they bear children,I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

I will cut off the judge from the landand kill all its officials with him.The Lord has spoken.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said:Strike the capitals of the pillarsso that the thresholds shake;knock them down on the heads of all the people.Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword.None of those who flee will get away;none of the fugitives will escape.

And if they are drivenby their enemies into captivity,from there I will commandthe sword to kill them.I will fix My eyes on themfor harm and not for good.

The lion mauled whatever its cubs neededand strangled prey for its lionesses.It filled up its dens with the kill,and its lairs with mauled prey.

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.” And they were deeply distressed.

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

and they will mock Him, spit on Him, flog Him, and kill Him, and He will rise after three days.”

“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, “Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!”

and after they flog Him, they will kill Him, and He will rise on the third day.”

“But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him, so the inheritance will be ours!’

You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You?”

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they attempted to kill him.

Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat!’

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than 40 of them arranging to ambush him, men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they kill him. Now they are ready, waiting for a commitment from you.”

asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.

We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

I will kill her children with the plague. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

And I looked, and there was a pale green horse. The horseman on it was named Death, and Hades was following after him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.

They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.

So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race.

When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, conquer them, and kill them.