Ulangan 28:50

28:50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

Yosua 6:21

6:21 They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, ¹  including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Yosua 6:1

6:1 Now Jericho ²  was shut tightly ³  because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ⁵  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁶  Israel along the way when Israel ⁷  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 1:17

1:17 Eli replied, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him.”

Ester 3:13

3:13 Letters were sent by the runners to all the king’s provinces stating that ⁸  they should destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, from youth to elderly, both women and children, ⁹  on a particular day, namely the thirteenth day ¹⁰  of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), and to loot and plunder their possessions.

Yeremia 51:22

51:22 I used you to smash men and women.

I used you to smash old men and young men.

I used you to smash young men and young women.

Yehezkiel 9:6

9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

[6:21]  ¹ tn Heb “all which was in the city.”

[6:1]  ² map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[6:1]  ³ tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 2:743 paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”

[6:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”

[15:3]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

[15:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:13]  ⁸ tn The words “stating that” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “children and women.” The translation follows contemporary English idiom, which reverses the order.

[3:13]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX does not include the words “on the thirteenth day.”