2 Samuel
Introduction

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

1. David tells one of his "young men" to kill the Amalekite messenger who claimed to have mercifully killed Saul at Saul's own request. 1:15

2. David asks God if he should kill some more Philistines. God says yes, and he'll even help. So David and God "smote the Philistines" again. 5:19, 25

3. "They left their images, and David and his men burned them." 5:21

4. David kills two thirds of the Moabites and makes the rest slaves. He also cripples the captured horses. 8:2-4

5. "David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men ... and the Lord preserved David withersoever he went." 8:5-6, 14

6. David saws, hacks, and burns to death all the inhabitants of several cities. 12:31