14 Bible Verses about Gashing Bodies

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

So they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.

“Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has been ruined.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you gash yourself?

that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the Lord.

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.

Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up.”

Samaria will be held guilty,
For she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
Their little ones will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, because they did not open to him; therefore he struck it and ripped up all its women who were with child.

‘You will drink it and drain it.
Then you will gnaw its fragments
And tear your breasts;
for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God.

And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.