2 Kings
Introduction

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Cruelty and Violence
Contradictions
Absurdities
Injustice
Intolerance
Family Values
Science and History
Language
Interpretation
Prophecy
Women
Homosexuality
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Family Values in 2 Kings

1. God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha's bald head. 2:23-24

2. In a desperate attempt to halt the slaughter of his people by the Israelites, the king of Moab sacrifices his oldest son as a burnt offering. And it seems to have worked! 3:27

3. Elisha not only can cure leprosy, he can also dish it out. Here he makes his servant (Gehazi) and all his descendants lepers forever. 5:27

4. "So we boiled my son, and did eat him." Women killed, boiled and ate their own children because of a plague that God sent, or as the Bible puts it: "Behold, this evil is of the Lord." 6:28-29, 33

5. All seventy of king Ahab's sons are killed, their heads put in baskets, and sent to Jezreel. He says, "Lay ye them in two heaps ..." 10:7-8

6. Jehu kills all that remained of king Ahab's family. 10:11

7. When Athaliah "saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all of the seed royal." 11:1

8. King Menahem rips up all the pregnant women in Tizzah "because they opened not to him." Does God approve of such acts? It's impossible to tell from this passage; the mass murder is simply reported without editorial comment. 15:16