You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
— Ezekiel 16:21
So there were four tables inside the gateway and four outside—eight tables in all—on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.
— Ezekiel 40:41
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old when all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones forget not.
— John Milton
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.