Bible verses about "infanticide" | ACV

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. ¹² Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! ¹³ Ephraim, just as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the slayer. ¹⁴ Give them, O LORD-what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. ¹⁵ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebels. ¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

¹³ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

¹⁶ And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

⁸ who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast,

¹⁰ to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness is forever,

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. ¹⁷ Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, which says, ¹⁸ A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children. And she did not want to be comforted, because they are not.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight, that LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.

¹⁶ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders of it, from Tirzah, because they did not open to him, therefore he smote it. And all the women in it who were with child he ripped up.

¹⁶ Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

¹⁶ Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

¹⁹ This man, who cunningly victimized our race, mistreated our fathers to make their infants be placed outside in order not to keep alive.

³ Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

⁹ Happy shall he be who takes and dashes thy little ones against the rock.