66 verses about Violence

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

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

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

“‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Tell the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Which had power not only to consume them by their violence, But to destroy them even by the terror of their sight.

Fight not with a wrathful man, And travel not with him through the desert: For blood is as nothing in his sight; And where there is no help, he will overthrow you.

Be not angry with your neighbor for every wrong; And do nothing by works of violence.

As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin; So is he that executes judgements with violence.

Before fire is the vapor and smoke of a furnace; So revilings before bloodshed.

And he turned away to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burned it with fire.

And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. And the enemies were ready to take away Judas by violence.

And when the multitudes were rising against him, and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began the conflict, one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading the attack.

and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses;

And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes.

and assaulting them vigorously they made themselves masters of the positions, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and killed those that fell in their way, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.

But at dawn of the five and twentieth day certain young men of the company of Maccabaeus, inflamed with passion because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall with masculine force and with furious passion, and cut down whoever came in their way.

And others climbing up in like manner, while the besieged were distracted with them that had made their way within, set fire to the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; while others broke open the gates, and, having given entrance to the rest of the band, occupied the city.

and having taken the city by the will of God, they made unspeakable slaughter, insomuch that the adjoining lake, which was two furlongs broad, appeared to be filled with the deluge of blood.

And Judas continued the pursuit the more hotly, putting the wicked wretches to the sword, and he destroyed as many as thirty thousand men.

And Judas, marching against Carnion and the temple of Atergatis, killed five and twenty thousand persons.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;