Bible Verses about “genocide”

“for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”

“"'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.”

“They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.”

“You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.”

“Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”

“Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.”

“Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.”

“Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.”

“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.”

“Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"”

“Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.”

“and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;”

“So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.”

“He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"”

“The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.”

“But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;”

“but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;”

“you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.”

“Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."”

“Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:”

“and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)”

“Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.”

“You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.”

“but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;”

“a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;”

“Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.”

“A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.”

“We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:”

“Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.”

“and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession."”

“(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,”

“as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:”

“We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.”

“All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.”

“We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.”

“The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.”