Numbers 31:15

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And Moses said to them, 'Have you spared all the women?'

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  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'
  • Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. 9 Blessed is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rock.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed is the one who does the LORD's work negligently, and cursed is the one who withholds their sword from blood.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Old men, young men, virgins, children, and women—kill them all to the point of destruction. But do not go near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city, including the men, women, and children; we left no survivors.
  • Deut 20:13 : 13 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword.
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you. 18 This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.
  • Josh 6:21 : 21 They devoted to destruction everything in the city—men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep, and donkeys—by the edge of the sword.
  • Josh 8:25 : 25 On that day, twelve thousand men and women, all the people of Ai, fell.
  • Josh 10:40 : 40 So Joshua conquered the whole country—the hill country, the Negev, the lowland, and the slopes—along with all their kings. He left no survivors but devoted every living thing to destruction, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
  • Josh 11:14 : 14 The Israelites took all the plunder and livestock of these cities for themselves, but they killed all the people with the sword, completely destroying them and leaving no survivors.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16Behold, these women caused the people of Israel to act unfaithfully against the LORD through the advice of Balaam in the matter of Peor, which led to the plague among the congregation of the LORD.

    17Now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

    18But you may keep alive for yourselves all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him.

  • Num 31:14
    79%

    14But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds—who returned from war.

  • Num 25:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a family in Midian.

    16The LORD said to Moses,

    17‘Treat the Midianites as enemies and strike them down.

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

    2Take vengeance on the Midianites for the people of Israel. Afterward, you will be gathered to your people.

    3So Moses said to the people, 'Arm some of your men for battle, to go against Midian and execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.'

  • Num 31:7
    76%

    7They waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, 'Each of you must kill those of your men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.'

    6Then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

  • Num 31:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25The LORD said to Moses,

    26'Take a count of the plunder that was captured, both man and beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation.'

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9The Israelites captured the women of Midian and their children, and they took all their livestock, all their goods, and all their wealth as plunder.

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16"When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."

    17The midwives, however, feared God and did not obey the king of Egypt's command; they let the boys live.

    18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?"

  • Num 25:10
    73%

    10The LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:19
    73%

    19Now the LORD said to Moses in Midian, 'Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are now dead.'

  • Num 27:15
    73%

    15Moses spoke to the LORD, saying:

  • Num 31:11
    73%

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Num 5:11
    72%

    11The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Num 14:3
    72%

    3Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Judg 21:11
    72%

    11This is what you are to do: Completely destroy every male and every woman who has had relations with a man.

  • Num 31:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    32The remaining plunder, taken by the soldiers, included 675,000 sheep,

  • Num 15:17
    71%

    17The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20Moses said to them, "If you will do this—if you arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,

  • Num 31:49
    71%

    49and said to Moses, 'Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.'

  • Num 15:1
    71%

    1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:42
    71%

    42From the half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses had separated from the men who fought in battle,

  • Num 31:47
    71%

    47From the Israelites' half, Moses took one out of every fifty, whether man or beast, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the LORD's tabernacle, as the LORD had commanded him.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16The elders of the assembly said, 'What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?'

  • Lev 24:13
    70%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Exod 5:21
    70%

    21They said to them, "May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us obnoxious in the eyes of Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

  • Exod 1:22
    70%

    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.

  • Num 5:5
    70%

    5The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Num 3:44
    70%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Num 15:37
    70%

    37The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 26:3
    70%

    3So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan River near Jericho, saying,

  • Exod 32:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26So Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me!" And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.

    27Then he said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man put his sword on his side. Go back and forth through the camp, from gate to gate, and kill your brother, your friend, and your neighbor.'"

  • Num 27:6
    70%

    6And the LORD said to Moses:

  • Num 31:35
    70%

    35and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15If you put all these people to death as one man, the nations who have heard about your fame will say,