Ezekiel 16:38
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38 I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.(A)
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Leviticus 20:10
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10 “If a man commits adultery with the wife of[a] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.(A)
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- 20.10 Heb repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of
Zephaniah 1:17
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17 I will bring such distress upon people
that they shall walk like the blind;
because they have sinned against the Lord,
their blood shall be poured out like dust
and their flesh like dung.(A)
Jeremiah 18:21
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21 Therefore give their children over to famine;
hurl them out to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be slain by the sword in battle.(A)
Genesis 9:6
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6 Whoever sheds the blood of a human,
by a human shall that person’s blood be shed,
for in his own image
God made humans.(A)
Revelation 16:6
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6 because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”
John 8:3-5
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3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and, making her stand before all of them, 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”(A)
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Matthew 1:18-19
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The Birth of Jesus the Messiah
18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah[a] took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit.(A) 19 Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to divorce her quietly.(B)
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- 1.18 Or Jesus Christ
Nahum 1:2
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The Consuming Wrath of God
2 A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and prolongs it against his enemies.(A)
Ezekiel 23:45-47
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45 But righteous judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.(A)
46 For thus says the Lord God: Bring up an assembly against them, and make them an object of terror and of plunder. 47 The assembly shall stone them, and with their swords they shall cut them down; they shall kill their sons and their daughters and burn up their houses.(B)
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Ezekiel 23:25
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25 I will direct my indignation against you, in order that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
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Ezekiel 16:40
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40 They shall bring up a mob against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:36
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36 Thus says the Lord God: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,(A)
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Ezekiel 16:20-21
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20 You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!(A) 21 You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them.(B)
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Psalm 79:3-5
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3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.(A)
4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.(B)
5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?(C)
Deuteronomy 22:22-24
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22 “If a man is discovered lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.(A)
23 “If there is a young woman, a virgin already engaged to be married, and a man meets her in the town and lies with her, 24 you shall bring both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for help in the town and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.(B)
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Numbers 35:31
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31 Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death.
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Exodus 21:12
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The Law concerning Violence
12 “Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death.(A)
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Genesis 38:24
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24 About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”(A)
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Genesis 38:11
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11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,” for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.(A)
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