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The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament both contain narratives, poems, and instructions which describe, encourage, command, condemn, reward, punish and regulate violent actions by God, [1] individuals, groups, governments, and nation-states. Among the violent acts referred to are war, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, murder, rape, genocide ...
The Sixth Commandment, as translated by the Book of Common Prayer (1549). The image is from the altar screen of the Temple Church near the Law Courts in London.. Thou shalt not kill (LXX, KJV; Ancient Greek: Οὐ φονεύσεις, romanized: Ou phoneúseis), You shall not murder (NIV, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח, romanized: Lo tirṣaḥ) or Do not murder (), is a moral ...
Massacre of the Innocents. The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story, while mainstream Bible scholars consider it a myth, [ 2] recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew ( 2:16 – 18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in ...
The Bible contains several texts which encourage, command, condemn, reward, punish, regulate and describe acts of violence. [10] [11]Leigh Gibson [who?] and Shelly Matthews, associate professor of religion at Furman University, [12] write that some scholars, such as René Girard, "lift up the New Testament as somehow containing the antidote for Old Testament violence".
Murder victims depicted in the Bible. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A.
First-degree murder (four counts) Lauria Jaylene Bible ( / ˈlɔːrə /; [3] born April 18, 1983 [4]) and Ashley Renae Freeman (born December 29, 1983 [5]) were American teenagers who disappeared between the evening of December 29 and the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, from Freeman's home in Welch, Oklahoma .
Matthew 5:27–28. Wall decoration with the text "Thou shall not commit adultery". Golden, Colorado. Matthew 5:27 and Matthew 5:28 are the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth verses of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. These verses begin the second antithesis: while since ...
Massacres in the Bible. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Massacres in the Bible. This category contains articles connected with accounts in the Bible where people were massacred.