Zechariah
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Cruelty and Violence in Zechariah

  1. "For I set all men every one against his neighbor." 8:10

  2. God will cast out Tyrus and devour it with fire. 9:4

  3. God will mercilessly "feed the flock of slaughter" by making every one kill his neighbor. 11:6

  4. "Let the rest eat every one the flesh of another." 11:9

  5. "Woe to the idle shepherd." He will be mutilated and blinded. 11:17

  6. God will open his eyes and smite "every rider with madness ... and every horse ... with blindness." 12:4

  7. A prophet must be killed by his own parents by "thrusting him through when he prophesieth." 13:3

  8. God will make "all nations" fight against Jerusalem. The women will be "ravished" and half its people enslaved. 14:1-2

  9. God will smite the people with plagues that will cause their flesh, eyes, and tongues to rot away. 14:12

  10. God will make everyone fight and kill his neighbor. 14:13

  11. God sends his plagues on animals too. 14:15

  12. Whoever survives all these plagues and slaughters must worship God. 14:16

  13. God will "smite the heathen" with a plague. 14:18