Bible Verses About Infanticide And The Sanctity Of Life

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Bible passage about innocent blood and sacrificed children.

Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Judgment text about little children, but not directly used by the core teaching.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Child sacrifice text, related to innocent blood but not the main infanticide teaching.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

General slaughter oracle; not specifically about infants or Christian teaching.

And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

Old Testament note about innocent blood.

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

Bible passage against innocent blood in the land.

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Prophetic language about innocent blood.

Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

General innocent blood text; less specific than the main passages selected.

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Bible passage about filling a place with innocent blood.

Thou shalt not kill.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Thou shalt not kill.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Pharaoh's command in Exodus 1 is relevant background only.

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Bible passage about righteous blood shed on earth.

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Narrative of Herod killing male children.

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.