Numbers 31:17

World English Bible (2000)

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

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  • Deut 7:2 : 2 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;
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 17 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; 18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
  • Judg 21:11-12 : 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man." 12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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  • Num 31:18-19
    2 verses
    88%

    18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

    19"Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

    10The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

    11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

    12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

    16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

  • Num 31:7-10
    4 verses
    78%

    7They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

    8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

    9The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

    10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    78%

    3Now 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.'"

  • Deut 20:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Ezek 9:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have pity;

    6kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

  • Jer 18:21
    77%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Num 31:35
    76%

    35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

  • Deut 2:34
    75%

    34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

  • Exod 1:16
    74%

    16and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

  • Deut 3:6
    74%

    6We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Exod 32:27
    74%

    27He 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.'"

  • Lev 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15"'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

    16"'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • Num 25:5
    74%

    5Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

  • Num 25:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17"Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Jer 44:7
    73%

    7Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;

  • 2 Chr 15:13
    73%

    13and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

  • Deut 22:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    25But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

  • Deut 13:15
    73%

    15you 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.

  • Josh 6:21
    73%

    21They 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.

  • Num 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2"Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

  • Exod 22:24
    73%

    24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Ezek 23:10
    73%

    10These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

  • Deut 20:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

    17but 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;

  • Deut 2:16
    72%

    16So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Ezek 23:47
    72%

    47The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

  • Deut 4:3
    72%

    3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

  • Josh 13:22
    72%

    22The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

  • Deut 21:10
    72%

    10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

  • Lev 20:13
    71%

    13"'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

  • Num 25:8
    71%

    8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

  • Lev 19:20
    71%

    20"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.