Overview cutting hands and feet in Semitic prophetic sources:
Deuteronomy 25:12 Deuteronomy 25 Deuteronomy 25:11-13 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. | |
1 Samuel 17:46 1 Samuel 17 1 Samuel 17:45-47 This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. | |
2 Samuel 4:12 2 Samuel 4 2 Samuel 4:11-13 So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb at Hebron. | |
Job 6:9 Job 6 Job 6:8-10 that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off! | |
Jeremiah 48:37 Jeremiah 48 Jeremiah 48:36-38 Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth. | |
Matthew 5:30 Matthew 5 Matthew 5:29-31 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. | |
Matthew 18:8 Matthew 18 Matthew 18:7-9 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. | |
Mark 9:43 Mark 9 Mark 9:42-44 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. | |
1 Samuel, chapter 5 4: But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. | |
1 Samuel, chapter 17 46: This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, | |
Deuteronomy, chapter 25 12: then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity. | |
1 Maccabees (Apocrypha), chapter 7 47: Then the Jews seized the spoils and the plunder, and they cut off Nicanor's head and the right hand which he so arrogantly stretched out, and brought them and displayed them just outside Jerusalem. | |
2 Maccabees (Apocrypha), chapter 7 4: These were heated immediately, and he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on. | |
2 Samuel, chapter 4 12: And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bo'sheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. | |
The Book of Job, chapter 6 9: that it
would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me
off! Mark, chapter 9 43: And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. |
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Proverbs 26:6 Proverbs 26 Proverbs 26:5-7 Like cutting off one's feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool. | |
Koran 5.38: And (as for) the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands as a punishment for what they have earned, an exemplary punishment from Allah; and Allah is Mighty, Wise. | |
Koran 5.33: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement, | |
Koran 7.124: 1 will certainly cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, then will I crucify you all together. | |
Koran 20.71: (Firon) said: You believe in him before I give you leave; most surely he is the chief of you who taught you enchantment, therefore I will certainly cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will certainly crucify you on the trunks of the palm trees, and certainly you will come to know which of us is the more severe and the more abiding in chastising. | |
Koran 26.49: Said he: You believe in him before I give you permission; most surely he is the chief of you who taught you the magic, so you shall know: certainly I will cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and certainly I will crucify you all |