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Cannibalism
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I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother. — read the full passage →
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? — read the full passage →
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation; — read the full passage →
The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ — read the full passage →
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. — read the full passage →
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you. — read the full passage →
In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock. — read the full passage →
They served their idols, which became a snare to them. — read the full passage →
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” — read the full passage →
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. — read the full passage →
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? — read the full passage →
He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn’t do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father; — read the full passage →
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. — read the full passage →
“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; — read the full passage →
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand; — read the full passage →
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →
Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; — read the full passage →
Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →
“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death. — read the full passage →
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?”
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →
The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein. — read the full passage →
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →
After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. — read the full passage →
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us. — read the full passage →
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →
I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, — read the full passage →
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you shall be brought out of its midst.
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. — read the full passage →
The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. — read the full passage →
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. — read the full passage →
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously. — read the full passage →
Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” — read the full passage →
“You shall not murder.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. — read the full passage →
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? — read the full passage →
Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! — read the full passage →
You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. — read the full passage →
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; — read the full passage →
You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber’s razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. — read the full passage →
Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. — read the full passage →
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? — read the full passage →
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath. — read the full passage →
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.” — read the full passage →
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people answered him not a word. — read the full passage →
“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me; — read the full passage →
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — read the full passage →
toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
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