Bible verses about "infanticide" | JuliaSmith

¹³ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn it back: for their cleaving asunder those conceiving of Gilead to increase their bound.

¹¹ Ephraim shall fly away as a bird, their glory of birth and of the womb and of conception. ¹² But if they shall bring up their sons and I bereaved them from man: but also wo to them in my departing from them. ¹³ Ephraim, as I saw for Tyre, was planted in a habitation: and Ephraim to bring forth his sons to him slaying. ¹⁴ Give to them, O Jehovah: what wilt thou give? give to them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. ¹⁵ All their wickedness in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the evil of their doings I will drive them out from my house, I will not add to love them: all their chiefs are turning away. ¹⁶ Ephraim was smitten, their root was dried up, they shall not make fruit: also if they shall bring forth, and I destroyed the desires of their womb.

¹⁶ And he will say, In the delivering the Hebrew women, and seeing upon the stools, if it is a son, ye shall kill him; and if it is a daughter, preserve alive.

⁸ He struck the first-born of Egypt., from man even to cattle.

¹⁰ To him striking Egypt in their first-born: for his mercy is forever.

¹⁶ Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi. ¹⁷ Then was completed that spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, ¹⁸ A voice was heard in Rama, wailing, and weeping, and much lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, for they are not.

²⁹ And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.

¹⁷ And now kill every male among the little ones; and every woman know in man by the bed of a male, do ye kill.

¹⁶ Then Menahem will strike Tiphsah and all which was in her, and her bounds from Tirzah: for it was not opened, and he will strike; all those being pregnant in it he clave asunder.

¹⁶ And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, and their houses shall be plundered, and their wives shall be ravished.

¹⁶ Shomeron shall be guilty, for she rebelled against her God: by the sword shall they fall: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and they having conceived shall be cleft asunder.

¹⁹ He having deceived our race by sophistry, inflicted evil upon our fathers, to make their babes cast out, that they should not breed.

³ Now go and strike Amalek, and exterminate all which is to him, and thou shalt not spare to him; and kill from man even to woman, from child even to suckling, from ox and even to sheep, from camel and even to ass.

⁹ Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock.