Quotes About Violence

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

You shall not murder.

you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.

If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighborís wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

ëCursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

ëCursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.

As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglonís fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglonís bowels emptied.