Jeremiah 48:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:39

And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

1 Kings 20:40

And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”

1 Kings 20:42

And he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ ”

2 Kings 13:19

Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”

Jeremiah 11:3

You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

Jeremiah 47:6

Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard, rest and be still!

Jeremiah 47:7

How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”

Jeremiah 50:25

The Lord has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Joshua 10:19

but do not stay there yourselves, pursue your enemies, fall upon their rear, do not let them enter their cities; for the Lord your God has given them into your hand.”

Judges 5:23

“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’ ”

1 Samuel 15:9

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.