1 Kings 18:28

Bible in Basic English 1965

So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:27

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

Isaiah 44:17

And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

Jeremiah 47:5

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

Leviticus 19:28

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

Micah 6:7

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Zechariah 13:6

And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Mark 5:5

And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 9:22

And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;