Quotes about Violence

You shall not murder.

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

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.

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.

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,

They captured it and put to the sword its king, all its villages, and all the people. Joshua left no survivors, just as he had done at Eglon; he devoted to destruction Hebron and everyone in it.

And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and as he had done to Libnah and its king.

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.