'Killing' in the Bible

Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.

So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine’s head in his hand.

It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.

and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way.

So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt.

Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

Instead, there is gaiety and gladness,Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,Eating of meat and drinking of wine:“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

Now it happened on the next day after the killing of Gedaliah, when no one knew about it,