And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion. Revelation 9:5
Trivia: God stopped killing people for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" because "his wrath was turned away" by a man who thrust a javelin through a man of Israel and a daughter of Moab.
