Numbers 25:7-8
7 aWhen Phinehas bthe son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand 8and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.1 Kings 18:40
40And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to cthe brook Kishon and dslaughtered them there.Isaiah 34:6
6The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
eFor the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Jeremiah 48:10
10 f“Cursed is he who does gthe work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.
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