Two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. 2 Samuel 8:2
Trivia: Who had sex with David's ten concubines in the sight of all of Israel?
Here is a plot of the number of cruel passages in each book of the Bible.
Leviticus, Jeremiah, and Deuteronomy are in the lead here, with 141, 106, and 93, respectively.
But since the books of the Bible vary greatly in length (from 2,527 verses in the Psalms to only 13 verses in 2 John), we might want to adjust our metric accordingly. The following graph does this by plotting the number of cruelties per 100 verses in each book.
When this is done, Amos and Leviticus are highest, with 16.4 and 16.3 cruel things per 100 verses, respectively.
Another way of looking at in the Bible is to plot the number of in each book verses the number of verses in the book.
Such a graph is shown below.
