CHILD ABUSE - Genesis 22:2 (NIV)
Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
CHILD ABUSE - GOD KILLS - Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 13:24 - KING SOLOMON (NAB)
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him takes care to chastise him.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 19:18-19 - KING SOLOMON (NAB)
"Chastise your son, for in this there is hope, but do not desire his death. The man of violent temper pays the penalty; even if you rescue him, you will have to do it again."
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 20:30
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 22:15 - KING SOLOMON
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 23:13-14 - KING SOLOMON (NIV)
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 29:15 - KING SOLOMON
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
CHILD ABUSE - Exodus 20:5 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments - see Deuteronomy 5:9 below]
"... for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
CHILD SACRIFICE - Exodus 20:29,30 (NIV)
"You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day."
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 5:9 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments - see Exodus 20:5 above]
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
CHILD EXECUTION - Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
CHILD EXECUTION - Deuteronomy 2:34
And we took all [Sihon's] cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.
CHILD ABUSE - 2 Kings 2:23-24
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
CHILD ABUSE - Leviticus 20:9
For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.
CHILD ABUSE - GOD ON ATTACKING ONE'S PARENTS - Exodus 21:15
"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death."
CHILD ABUSE - GOD ON CURSING ONE'S PARENTS - Exodus 21:17
"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death."
CHILD ABUSE - Exodus 34:6-7 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.
CHILD ABUSE - GOD WILL KILL THE CHILDREN OF SINNERS - Leviticus 26:21-22 (NLT)
"If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted."
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - KILL SONS FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS - Isaiah 14:21
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 23:2 (KJV)
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
[NOTE: It can be argued that Jesus was a bastard, because his parents weren't married. Also, how many people can be sure that all ten generations of their ancestors (1023 couples) were married?]
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 20:13-14
When the LORD your God delivers [a city] into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.
CHILD ABUSE - Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
CHILD ABUSE - Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished.
CHILD ABUSE - Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children.
CHILD ABUSE - 2 Samuel 12:13-14
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan replied, "The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." [The child dies seven days later.]
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Judges 11:30-31
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering." [Jephthah's daughter ends up as the burnt offering.]
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 9:12
"Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one."
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 9:16 (NLT)
"The people of Israel are struck down. Their roots are dried up, and they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children."
CHILD ABUSE - Psalm 109:9-13
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
CHILD ABUSE - Psalm 137:8-9 (KJV)
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 13:16
... because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Ezekiel 20:26 (NIV)
"I let them become defiled through their gifts — the sacrifice of every firstborn — that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD."
CHILD ABUSE - Ezekiel 23:46,47 (KJV)
For thus saith the Lord GOD; "I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire."
Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
CHILD ABUSE - GOD KILLS - Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 13:24 - KING SOLOMON (NAB)
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him takes care to chastise him.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 19:18-19 - KING SOLOMON (NAB)
"Chastise your son, for in this there is hope, but do not desire his death. The man of violent temper pays the penalty; even if you rescue him, you will have to do it again."
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 20:30
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 22:15 - KING SOLOMON
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 23:13-14 - KING SOLOMON (NIV)
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 29:15 - KING SOLOMON
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
CHILD ABUSE - Exodus 20:5 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments - see Deuteronomy 5:9 below]
"... for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
CHILD SACRIFICE - Exodus 20:29,30 (NIV)
"You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day."
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 5:9 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments - see Exodus 20:5 above]
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
CHILD EXECUTION - Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
CHILD EXECUTION - Deuteronomy 2:34
And we took all [Sihon's] cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.
CHILD ABUSE - 2 Kings 2:23-24
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
CHILD ABUSE - Leviticus 20:9
For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.
CHILD ABUSE - GOD ON ATTACKING ONE'S PARENTS - Exodus 21:15
"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death."
CHILD ABUSE - GOD ON CURSING ONE'S PARENTS - Exodus 21:17
"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death."
CHILD ABUSE - Exodus 34:6-7 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.
CHILD ABUSE - GOD WILL KILL THE CHILDREN OF SINNERS - Leviticus 26:21-22 (NLT)
"If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted."
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - KILL SONS FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS - Isaiah 14:21
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 23:2 (KJV)
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
[NOTE: It can be argued that Jesus was a bastard, because his parents weren't married. Also, how many people can be sure that all ten generations of their ancestors (1023 couples) were married?]
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 20:13-14
When the LORD your God delivers [a city] into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.
CHILD ABUSE - Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
CHILD ABUSE - Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished.
CHILD ABUSE - Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children.
CHILD ABUSE - 2 Samuel 12:13-14
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan replied, "The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." [The child dies seven days later.]
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Judges 11:30-31
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering." [Jephthah's daughter ends up as the burnt offering.]
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 9:12
"Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one."
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 9:16 (NLT)
"The people of Israel are struck down. Their roots are dried up, and they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children."
CHILD ABUSE - Psalm 109:9-13
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
CHILD ABUSE - Psalm 137:8-9 (KJV)
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 13:16
... because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Ezekiel 20:26 (NIV)
"I let them become defiled through their gifts — the sacrifice of every firstborn — that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD."
CHILD ABUSE - Ezekiel 23:46,47 (KJV)
For thus saith the Lord GOD; "I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire."
