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As it says in the Law of Moses, "Sing of His people, O nations, for He will avenge the blood of his servants, return vengeance upon his enemies, will soothe His land and His people". kakatuv b'torat-Moshe ish haElohim: harninu goiem amo ki dam avadav yikom v'nakam yashiv l'tzarav v'chiper admato amo.
Psalm 68 (or Psalm 67 in Septuagint and Vulgate numbering) is "the most difficult and obscure of all the psalms." [1] In the English of the King James Version it begins "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered".
As an example, Psalm 69:24 states toward God, "Pour out Your indignation on them, and let Your burning anger overtake them." The Psalms ( Tehilim , תהילים , or "praises"), considered part of both Hebrew and Christian Scripture , served as ancient Israel 's " psalter " or " hymnbook ", which was used during temple and private worship .
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
The destroying angel passes through Egypt. [1]In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
His task is also to argue against any attempts to pardon the sinner. It is presumed that the court would be the party who would avenge the wrongful death via the imposition of the death penalty, [3] though Deuteronomy 13:9 suggests that the witness to an offence and afterward the whole of the people would carry out the penalty of death by ...
A depiction of Víðarr stabbing Fenrir while holding his jaws apart by W. G. Collingwood, 1908, inspired by the Gosforth Cross. In Norse mythology, Víðarr (Old Norse: [ˈwiːðɑrː], possibly "wide ruler", [1] sometimes anglicized as Vidar / ˈ v iː d ɑːr /, Vithar, Vidarr, and Vitharr) is a god among the Æsir associated with vengeance.
There he was captured by the Aiaia (a bird, messenger of the god Kane), died, and was buried in Ulu-paupau. Kahaʻi decided to go and avenge his father. A rainbow was the path over which he and his brother ʻAlihi ascended into the skies, where they asked Kane and Kanaloa where Hema's remains were to be found.