Quotes About Violence

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechemís house, and went away.

Jacobís other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

Now Josephís brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

You shall not murder.

Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.

If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the womanís husband demands and as the court allows.

But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëEach of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.í”

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”

followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,