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Bible Verses About Slay

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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

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And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

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When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

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But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

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And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

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But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

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And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

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And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

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And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

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A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

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Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

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He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

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And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

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Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

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David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

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And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal–peor.

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And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

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And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord’s anointed.

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And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

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But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

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Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand.

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And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

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And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

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And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

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And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

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Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

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And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

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Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

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For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

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And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

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And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

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And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.

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Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

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But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

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