Jeremiah 48:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Cursed are they who do the Lord’s work carelessly, cursed those who keep their sword from shedding blood.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:39

As the king was passing, he called out to the king and said: “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and suddenly someone turned and brought me a man and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, you shall have to pay for his life with your life or pay out a talent of silver.’

1 Kings 20:40

But while your servant was occupied here and there, the man disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “That is your sentence. You have decided it yourself.”

1 Kings 20:42

He said to him: “The Lord says, Because you have set free the man I put under the ban, your life shall pay for his life, your people for his people.”

2 Kings 13:19

The man of God became angry with him and said, “You should have beat five or six times. You would have beaten Aram and finished him. Now you will beat Aram only three times.”

Jeremiah 11:3

and say to them: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be anyone who does not observe the words of this covenant,

Jeremiah 47:6

Ah! Sword of the Lord! When will you find rest? Return to your scabbard; stop, be still!

Jeremiah 47:7

How can it find rest when the Lord has commanded it? Against Ashkelon and the seacoast, there he has appointed it.

Jeremiah 50:25

The Lord opens his armory, brings out the weapons of his wrath; The Lord God of hosts has work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all the oxen, take them down to slaughter; Woe to them! their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Joshua 10:19

But do not remain there yourselves. Pursue your enemies, and harry them in the rear. Do not allow them to reach their cities, for the Lord, your God, has delivered them into your power.”

Judges 5:23

“Curse Meroz,” says the messenger of the Lord, “curse, curse its inhabitants! For they did not come when the Lord helped, the help of the Lord against the warriors.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

1 Samuel 15:9

He and his troops spared Agag and the best of the fat sheep and oxen, and the lambs. They refused to put under the ban anything that was worthwhile, destroying only what was worthless and of no account. Samuel Rebukes Saul.