What Would Jesus Do about Domestic Violence ... - The Book Locker

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Chloe Cummings D.B.S.
• Of females killed with a firearm, almost two-thirds were killed by
their intimate partners. 23
• The number of females shot and killed by their husbands or
intimate partners was more than three times higher than the total
number murdered by male strangers using all weapons
combined in single victim/single offender incidents in 2002. 24
• 33% of women murdered in America are killed by their husbands
or boyfriends. 25
• 75% of domestic violence homicides occur during or after the
victim has left the abuser. 26
• The number one killer of African-American women ages 15 to 34
is homicide at the hands of a current or former intimate partner.
27
• One woman is beaten by her husband or partner every 15
seconds in the United States. 28
• Battering on women is the most under reported crime in
America. 29
• 92% of women who were physically abused by their partners did
not discuss these incidents with their physicians; 57% did not
discuss the incidents with anyone. 30
After reading these statistics, one may be tempted to think
that this is a social problem which sinners alone have and that it
is outside of the Church. However, there is a very strong biblical
and historical relationship between domestic violence and abuse
and God’s people. Let’s take a look at some of that history.
I will fast-forward past the first domestic violence incident
between brothers Cain and Abel, to look at three examples
where the Bible records instances of terrible victimization of
domestic violence against women among God’s people. From
these examples we see that domestic violence and abuse is one
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