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Cozbi – A Midianite princess who was killed by Phinehas (grandson of Aaron) because her evil influence was seen as the source of a plague among the Israelites according to Numbers 25. [37] The incident was then taken as a pretext for the War against the Midianites in Numbers 31 .
Murder victims depicted in the Bible. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Absalom (14 P) C. Cain and Abel (1 C, 18 P) J.
For example, the Bible sometimes uses different names for the same woman, names in different languages can be translated differently, and some names can be used for either men or women. Professor Karla Bombach says one study produced a total of 3000–3100 names, 2900 of which are men with 170 of the total being women.
This is a list of reputed martyrs of Christianity; it includes only notable people with Wikipedia articles.Not all Christian confessions accept every figure on this list as a martyr or Christian—see the linked articles for fuller discussion.
A slave girl in Ibn Fadlan's account of a Norse funeral (c. 922), gang-raped and killed as part of a chief's funeral ritual; Li Zu'e, an empress who was raped by her brother-in-law and became pregnant; Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1656), Italian Baroque artist; Xenia Borisovna, Russian princess, forcibly taken as a concubine by False Dmitry I
This is a list of people burned after being deemed heretics by different Christian Churches. The list does not attempt to encompass the list of those executed by burning for other reasons (such as victims of witch hunts or other persecutions).
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were found dead on April 14 after being reported missing the month prior. More details have emerged about the death of two Kansas women allegedly killed ...
The following is a list of people who were beheaded, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of decapitation. Special sections on "Religious figures" and "Fictional characters" are also appended. These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously).