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发帖数: 1032 | 1 The act of murder is rampant in the Bible. In much of the Bible,
especially the Old Testament, there are laws that command that people be
killed for absurd reasons such as working on the Sabbath, being gay, cursing
your parents, or not being a virgin on your wedding night. In addition to
these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's
irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any
rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people,
and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling
during transport. There are also countless examples of mass murders
commanded by God, including the murder of women, infants, and children.
The following passages are a very small percentage of the total passages
approving of murder in the Bible. They are divided here into three parts:
1) Capital Punishment Crimes, 2) God's Murders for Stupid Reasons, 3)
Murdering Children, and 4) Miscellaneous Murders. This list is long, but it
barely scratches the surface of all the murders approved of in the Bible.
1) Capital Punishment Crimes:
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the
priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil
must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to
death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (
Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to
death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death.
(Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:
15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the
coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are
guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the
woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and
thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:
9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed.
(Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers,
with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord,
the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether
man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to
him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the
Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him
through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you
that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray
by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must
examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such
a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and
completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then
you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put
the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That
town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the
plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn
from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on
you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors
. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the
commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (
Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding
night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring
the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall
stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her
unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your
midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved
wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom
you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at
hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to
him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him,
but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of
the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he
sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this,
shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-
12 NAB)
2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD
your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and
has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun,
the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden.
When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true
that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman
must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17
:2-5 NLT)
Death for Blasphemy
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got
into a fight with one of the Israelite men. During the fight, this son of
an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So the man was brought to
Moses for judgment. His mother's name was Shelomith. She was the daughter
of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put the man in custody until the LORD's
will in the matter should become clear. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take
the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay
their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death.
Say to the people of Israel: Those who blaspheme God will suffer the
consequences of their guilt and be punished. Anyone who blasphemes the LORD
's name must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. Any
Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the LORD's name will surely
die. (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)
Kill False Prophets
1) Suppose there are prophets among you, or those who have dreams about
the future, and they promise you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs
or miracles take place. If the prophets then say, 'Come, let us worship
the gods of foreign nations,' do not listen to them. The LORD your God is
testing you to see if you love him with all your heart and soul. Serve only
the LORD your God and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his
voice, and cling to him. The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you
astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD
your God, who brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt. Since they
try to keep you from following the LORD your God, you must execute them to
remove the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT)
2) But any prophet who claims to give a message from another god or who
falsely claims to speak for me must die.' You may wonder, 'How will we know
whether the prophecy is from the LORD or not?' If the prophet predicts
something in the LORD's name and it does not happen, the LORD did not give
the message. That prophet has spoken on his own and need not be feared. (
Deuteronomy 18:20-22 NLT)
Infidels and Gays Should Die
So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts
desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's
bodies. Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they
deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made
but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen. That is
why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned
against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each
other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with
women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other
men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly
deserved. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their
evil minds and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives
became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder,
fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers,
haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing
new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents. They refuse to
understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving. They
are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet
they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage
others to do them, too. (Romans 1:24-32 NLT)
Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle
For the LORD had said to Moses, 'Exempt the tribe of Levi from the
census; do not include them when you count the rest of the Israelites. You
must put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the Covenant, along with
its furnishings and equipment. They must carry the Tabernacle and its
equipment as you travel, and they must care for it and camp around it.
Whenever the Tabernacle is moved, the Levites will take it down and set it
up again. Anyone else who goes too near the Tabernacle will be executed.'
(Numbers 1:48-51 NLT)
Kill People for Working on the Sabbath
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people
of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant
between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD,
who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who
desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from
the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of
total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who
works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
2) God's Murders for Stupid Reasons:
Kill Brats
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on his way, some
small boys came out of the city and jeered at him. "Go up baldhead," they
shouted, "go up baldhead!" The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed
them in the name of the Lord. Then two shebears came out of the woods and
tore forty two of the children to pieces. (2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB)
God Kills the Curious
And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into
the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, `and' fifty thousand
men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a
great slaughter. And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand
before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? (
1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)
Killed by a Lion
Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to
another man, "Strike me!" But the man refused to strike the prophet. Then
the prophet told him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a
lion will kill you as soon as you leave me." And sure enough, when he had
gone, a lion attacked and killed him. (1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)
Killing the Good Samaritan
The ark of God was placed on a new cart and taken away from the house of
Abinadab on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab guided the cart,
with Ahio walking before it, while David and all the Israelites made merry
before the Lord with all their strength, with singing and with citharas,
harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah reached out his
hand to the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen were making it tip. But
the Lord was angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died
there before God. (2 Samuel 6:3-7 NAB)
3) Murdering Children
Kill Sons of Sinners
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest
they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with
tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)
God Will Kill Children
The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will
die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived. Even if your
children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a
terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel
become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her
children to be slaughtered." O LORD, what should I request for your people
? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk.
The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to
hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I
will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels. The people of
Israel are stricken. Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more
fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children." (
Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)
Kill Men, Women, and Children
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the
city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no
pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children.
But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the
Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!
" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you
kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (
Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)
God Kills all the First Born of Egypt
And at midnight the LORD killed all the firstborn sons in the land of
Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the
firstborn son of the captive in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their
livestock were killed. Pharaoh and his officials and all the people of
Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the
land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died. (
Exodus 12:29-30 NLT)
Kill Old Men and Young Women
"You are my battle-ax and sword," says the LORD. "With you I will
shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms. With you I will shatter armies,
destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer. With you I will
shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens.
With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and
rulers. "As you watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia
for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem," says the LORD.
"Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy," says
the LORD. "I will raise my fist against you, to roll you down from the
heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of rubble. You
will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for
building. You will be completely wiped out," says the LORD. (Jeremiah 51:
20-26)
(Note that after God promises the Israelites a victory against Babylon,
the Israelites actually get their butts kicked by them in the next chapter.
So much for an all-knowing and all-powerful God.)
God Will Kill the Children of Sinners
If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will
inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild
animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your
numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22
NLT)
More Rape and Baby Killing
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little
children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will
be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up
the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them
off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows.
They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for
the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)
4) Miscellaneous Murders
More of Samson's Murders
(The Lord saves Sampson from standing trial for 30 murders and arson by
allowing him to kill 1000 more men.) When he reached Lehi, and the
Philistines came shouting to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came upon him:
the ropes around his arms become as flax that is consumed by fire and the
bonds melted away from his hands. Near him was the fresh jawbone of an ass;
he reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand men. (Judges 15:
14-15 NAB)
Peter Kills Two People
There was also a man named Ananias who, with his wife, Sapphira, sold
some property. He brought part of the money to the apostles, but he claimed
it was the full amount. His wife had agreed to this deception. Then Peter
said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart? You lied to the Holy
Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself. The property was yours
to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was
yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren't lying
to us but to God." As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the
floor and died. Everyone who heard about it was terrified. Then some young
men wrapped him in a sheet and took him out and buried him. About three
hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked
her, "Was this the price you and your husband received for your land?" "Yes
," she replied, "that was the price." And Peter said, "How could the two of
you even think of doing a thing like this – conspiring together to test
the Spirit of the Lord? Just outside that door are the young men who buried
your husband, and they will carry you out, too." Instantly, she fell to
the floor and died. When the young men came in and saw that she was dead,
they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear gripped
the entire church and all others who heard what had happened. (Acts 5:1-11
NLT)
Mass Murder
This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: 'I will punish what Amalek
did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go,
now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do
not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep
, camels and asses.' (1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)
You Have to Kill
Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back
his sword from blood. (Jeremiah 48:10 NAB)
The Danites Kill the Next Town
But the territory of the Danites was too small for them; so the Danites
marched up and attacked Leshem, which they captured and put to the sword.
Once they had taken possession of Lesham, they renamed the settlement after
their ancestor Dan. (Joshua 19:47 NAB)
God Kills Some More
Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me
pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them
out of my sight! And if they say to you, 'But where can we go?' tell them,
'This is what the LORD says: Those who are destined for death, to death;
those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine,
to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.' "I will
send four kinds of destroyers against them," says the LORD. "I will send
the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the
wild animals to finish up what is left. Because of the wicked things
Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my
people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth." (Jeremiah 15:
1-4 NLT)
God Promises More Killing
I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to
escape and any who return. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your
hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered
by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be
rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT)
The Angel of Death
My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out. (
Exodus 23:23 NAB)
Destruction of Ai
Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take
the entire army and attack Ai, for I have given to you the king of Ai, his
people, his city, and his land. You will destroy them as you destroyed
Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the captured goods and the
cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city." So Joshua and the
army of Israel set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand fighting
men and sent them out at night with these orders: "Hide in ambush close
behind the city and be ready for action. When our main army attacks, the
men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will run away
from them. We will let them chase us until they have all left the city. For
they will say, 'The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.
' Then you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the city,
for the LORD your God will give it to you. Set the city on fire, as the
LORD has commanded. You have your orders." So they left that night and lay
in ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained
among the people in the camp that night.
Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and started toward Ai,
accompanied by the leaders of Israel. They camped on the north side of Ai,
with a valley between them and the city. That night Joshua sent five
thousand men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the
city. So they stationed the main army north of the city and the ambush
west of the city. Joshua himself spent that night in the valley. When the
king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and all his army
hurriedly went out early the next morning and attacked the Israelites at a
place overlooking the Jordan Valley. But he didn't realize there was an
ambush behind the city. Joshua and the Israelite army fled toward the
wilderness as though they were badly beaten, and all the men in the city
were called out to chase after them. In this way, they were lured away from
the city. There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after
the Israelites, and the city was left wide open.
Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Point your spear toward Ai, for I will
give you the city." Joshua did as he was commanded. As soon as Joshua gave
the signal, the men in ambush jumped up and poured into the city. They
quickly captured it and set it on fire. When the men of Ai looked behind
them, smoke from the city was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go.
For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now
turned on their pursuers. When Joshua and the other Israelites saw that the
ambush had succeeded and that smoke was rising from the city, they turned
and attacked the men of Ai. Then the Israelites who were inside the city
came out and started killing the enemy from the rear. So the men of Ai were
caught in a trap, and all of them died. Not a single person survived or
escaped. Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.
When the Israelite army finished killing all the men outside the city,
they went back and finished off everyone inside. So the entire population
of Ai was wiped out that day – twelve thousand in all. For Joshua kept
holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely
destroyed. Only the cattle and the treasures of the city were not destroyed
, for the Israelites kept these for themselves, as the LORD had commanded
Joshua. So Ai became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.
Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At
sunset the Israelites took down the body and threw it in front of the city
gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen
today. (Joshua 8:1-29 NLT)
Killing at Jericho
When the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted as loud as
they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites
charged straight into the city from every side and captured it. They
completely destroyed everything in it – men and women, young and old,
cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything. (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)
God Kills an Extended Family
"You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made
other gods and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you
have turned your back on me, I will bring disaster on your dynasty and kill
all your sons, slave or free alike. I will burn up your royal dynasty as
one burns up trash until it is all gone. I, the LORD, vow that the members
of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die
in the field will be eaten by vultures.'" Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam's
wife, "Go on home, and when you enter the city, the child will die. All
Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your
family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing
that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.
And the LORD will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the family of
Jeroboam. This will happen today, even now! Then the LORD will shake
Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of
Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter
them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD by
worshiping Asherah poles. He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned
and made all of Israel sin along with him." (1 Kings 14:9-16 NLT)
Mass Murder
The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites,
putting to the sword the inhabitants of the city, the livestock, and all
they chanced upon. Moreover they destroyed by fire all the cities they came
upon. (Judges 20:48 NAB)
The Angel of Death
That night the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred
and eighty five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning,
there they were, all the corpuses of the dead. (2 Kings 19:35 NAB)
Kill Your Neighbors
(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who
are on the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites
came. He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap
on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other,
killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors." The Levites obeyed
Moses, and about three thousand people died that day. Then Moses told the
Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you
obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because
of this, he will now give you a great blessing." (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)
Kill the Family of Sinners
And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD
God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what thou hast
done, hide it not from me. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I
have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred
shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I
coveted them, and took them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the
midst of my tent, and the silver under it." [Note that the sin is not
looting, but failing to give the loot to the treasury of the Lord.] "So
Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and behold, it was hid in
his tent, and the silver under it. And they took them from the midst of the
tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and
laid them out before the LORD. And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took
Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of
gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his
sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the
valley of Achor. And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us? the LORD
shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and
burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. And they
raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from
the fierceness of his anger: wherefore the name of that place was called
the valley of Achor to this day. (Joshua 7:19-26 Webster's Bible)
Kill Followers of Other Religions
While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled
themselves by sleeping with the local Moabite women. These women invited
them to attend sacrifices to their gods, and soon the Israelites were
feasting with them and worshiping the gods of Moab. Before long Israel was
joining in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD's anger to blaze
against his people. The LORD issued the following command to Moses: "Seize
all the ringleaders and execute them before the LORD in broad daylight, so
his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel." So Moses
ordered Israel's judges to execute everyone who had joined in worshiping
Baal of Peor. Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman
into the camp, right before the eyes of Moses and all the people, as they
were weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle. When Phinehas son of
Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the
assembly. Then he took a spear and rushed after the man into his tent.
Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man's body and into the
woman's stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, but not
before 24,000 people had died. (Numbers 25:1-9 NLT)
Murder
At the customary time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the
prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant
. Prove that I have done all this at your command. O LORD, answer me!
Answer me so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God and that you
have brought them back to yourself." Immediately the fire of the LORD
flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones,
and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the ditch! And when the
people saw it, they fell on their faces and cried out, "The LORD is God!
The LORD is God!" Then Elijah commanded, "Seize all the prophets of Baal.
Don't let a single one escape!" So the people seized them all, and Elijah
took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there. (1 Kings 18:36-
40 NLT)
Kill All of Babylon
"Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the
people of Pekod. Yes, march against Babylon, the land of rebels, a land that
I will judge! Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have
commanded you," says the LORD. "Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a
shout of great destruction". (Jeremiah 50:21-22 NLT)
Micah Kills a Whole Town
Then, with Micah's idols and his priest, the men of Dan came to the town
of Laish, whose people were peaceful and secure. They attacked and killed
all the people and burned the town to the ground. There was no one to
rescue the residents of the town, for they lived a great distance from Sidon
and had no allies nearby. This happened in the valley near Beth-rehob.Then
the people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town and lived there. They
renamed the town Dan after their ancestor, Israel's son, but it had
originally been called Laish. (Judges 18:27-29 NLT) (Note that God
approves of this slaughter in verse 6.) | w**j
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