Massacre
10 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
9 sections
Authorized by Moses
- Deuteronomy 20:13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
- Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Decree to Destroy the Jews
- Esther 3:1 After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
Edomites
- 2 Kings 14:7 Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
Inhabitants of Tiphsah
- 2 Kings 15:16 At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
Midianites
- Numbers 31:7–8 Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. …
Prophets of Baal
- 1 Kings 18:40 Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
Royal Seed of Athaliah
- 2 Kings 11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
Sons of Ahab
- 2 Kings 10:1–8 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying: …
Worshipers of Baal
- 2 Kings 10:18–28 Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot. …
Related topics
Massacre of AiMassacre of BashanMassacre of HazorMassacre of HeshbonMassacre of the Cities of the Seven KingsTreachery of Jehu
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.