Topic
Infanticide
4 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 1:15Nave General scriptures concerning
¶ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
- Exodus 1:16Nave General scriptures concerning
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
- Matthew 2:16–18Nave General scriptures concerning
¶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently…
- Acts 7:19Nave General scriptures concerning
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
in-fan'-ti-sid.
See CRIMES.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 4 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → General scriptures concerning Ex 1:15,16; Mt 2:16-18; Ac 7:19
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.