9 Bible Verses about Vindictiveness

When the king of Israel saw Elisha, he asked him, "Shall I execute them, my father?"

In response, Asa flew into a rage and locked up the seer in stocks in the palace prison because of what Hanani had told him. Asa also tortured some of the people of Israel at that time.

Give him this order: "Place him in prison on survival rations only until I come back safely.'"

Because they had told him who the people of Mordecai were, Haman found it unacceptable to kill only Mordecai. So Haman sought to destroy all of Mordecai's people, the Jewish people, who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!

So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't do it

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

In the morning, the Jewish leaders formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink anything before they had killed Paul.