2 Kings 6:22

New American Bible - revised edition

Elisha replied, “You must not kill them. Do you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword or bow? Serve them a meal. Let them eat and drink, and then go back to their master.”

Cross References

Genesis 48:22

As for me, I give to you, as to the one above his brothers, Shechem, which I captured from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

Psalm 44:6

Through you we batter our foes; through your name we trample our adversaries.

Hosea 1:7

Yet for the house of Judah I will feel pity; I will save them by the Lord, their God; but I will not save them by bow or sword, by warfare, by horses or horsemen.

Hosea 2:18

On that day—oracle of the Lord— You shall call me “My husband,” and you shall never again call me “My baal.”

Matthew 5:44

But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

Joshua 24:12

And I sent the hornets ahead of you which drove them—the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites—out of your way; it was not your sword or your bow.