Bible verses about "infanticide" | CLV

¹³ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their rending the pregnant of Gilead, that they may widen their boundary."

¹¹ Ephraim is as a flyer; their glory shall fly itself away from birth, and from the belly and from pregnancy." ¹² For, if they are bringing up their sons, then will I bereave them of a human, for, moreover, woe to them when My control is away from them!" ¹³ Ephraim, just as I see as to Tyre, is transplanted into a homestead, yet Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the killer." ¹⁴ Give to them, Yahweh! What wilt You give? Give to them a bereaving womb and shrivelling breasts." ¹⁵ All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. On account of the evil of their actions, from My house will I drive them out. I will continue to love them. All their chiefs are stubborn." ¹⁶ Smitten is Ephraim. Their root is dry; fruit shall they fail to yield. Moreover, in case they shall generate, then I will put to death the coveted ones of their belly."

¹⁶ and said: In your midwifery for the Hebrew women, when you see them on the bracing stones, if it is a son then you will put him to death, and if it is a daughter then she will live.

⁸ He Who smote the firstborn of Egypt From human unto beast,

¹⁰ To the One smiting Egypt in their firstborn, For His benignity is eonian;"

¹⁶ Then Herod, perceiving that he was scoffed at by the magi, was very furious, and, dispatching, he massacred all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its boundaries, from two years and below, according to the time which he ascertains exactly from the magi. ¹⁷ Then was fulfilled that which is declared through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, ¹⁸ A sound in Rama is heard,
Lamentation, and much anguish;
Rachel lamenting over her children,
And she would not be consoled, for they are not.

²⁹ It came to be at midnight that Yahweh, He smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, sitting on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the house of the cistern, and every firstborn of beast.

¹⁷ And now, kill every male among the little ones, and every woman having known a man (at bed with a male), kill.

¹⁶ Then does Menahem smite Tiphsah, and all who [are] in it, and its borders from Tirzah, for it opened not [to him], and he smites [it], all its pregnant women he has ripped up.

¹⁶ And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished."

¹⁶ Samaria is guilty, for she rebels against her Elohim. By the sword they shall fall, and their unweaned children shall be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women shall be rent."

¹⁹ This one, dealing astutely with our race, illtreats the fathers, causing their babes to be exposed that they should not live."

³ Now, go, and you have smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it has, and you have no pity on it, and have put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass..

⁹ Happy is he who shall hold and shatter your unweaned children Against the crag.