Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 1 Samuel 20:17
Trivia: Who said that Jonathan must die for eating some honey?
Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 1 Samuel 20:17
Trivia: Who said that Jonathan must die for eating some honey?
If there's a point to the Bible and to religion in general it is this: God likes some people and religious beliefs more than others.
In the Hebrew scriptures, the Jews are his favorite people, and he despises everyone else. Even so, he only likes certain Jews. Witches, homosexuals, disobedient children, Sabaath breakers, and people with different religious beliefs are to be executed.
And it's even worse in the New Testament. People with the "wrong" religious beliefs are not just killed; they are tortured forever after they die for their supposedly mistaken beliefs.
The uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 17:14
An uncircumcised boy is to be abandoned by his parents and community.
The LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. 19:24
God kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family.
Swear ... that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites. 24:3
Abraham makes his servant swear that he won't let Isaac marry a Canaanite.
Esau ... took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 26:34-35
Esau married two Hittite women, "which were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah." (Because they were Hittites -- not because he married two women.)
If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth ... what good shall my life do me? 27:46
Rebekah told Isaac she was weary of living with the daughters of Heth (Hittite women). Her life will be worthless if Jacob marries one of them.
Isaac called Jacob, and ... and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 28:1
Isaac tells Jacob not to marry a Canaanite.
We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised. 34:14
Jacob's sons can't stand the idea of their sister marrying someone who is uncircumcised.
If ... every male of you be circumcised; Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 34:15
The sons of Jacob say they will agree to inter-marriages if the men of Shechem get circumcised. The men of Shechem agree, then they are massacred while recovering from their circumcisions.
And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him. 38:7
What did Er do to elicit God's wrath? The Bible doesn't say. Maybe he picked up some sticks on Saturday.
Onan ...spilled it on the ground ... And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. 38:8-10
After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to "go in unto thy brother's wife." But "Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and ... when he went in unto his brother's wife ... he spilled it on the ground.... And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also." This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of both masturbation and birth control.
Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 38:24
After Judah pays Tamar for her services, he is told that she "played the harlot" and "is with child by whoredom." When Judah hears this, he says, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
The LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 4:24-26
God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. Luckily for Moses, his Egyptian wife Zipporah "took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he [God] let him go." This story shows the importance of penises to God, and his hatred of foreskins.
"All the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die ... that ye may know how the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." 11:7
God will kill every firstborn Egyptian child to show that he likes Israelites more than Egyptians.
"I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast." 12:12
God explains to Moses that he intends to kill every Egyptian fristborn man and beast.
"When your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses." 12:26-26
When your children ask you, "Why do we celebrate the passover," tell them, "Because God passed over our houses when he was killing Egyptians and didn't kill any of us."
"At midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt ... and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." 12:29-30
After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh's heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished "there was not a house where there was not one dead." Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too.
"A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof ... No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof." 12:43, 45, 48
No stranger, foreigner, or uncircumcised person can eat the Passover.
"If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD ... I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians." 15:26
If you do what God says, he won't send his diseases on you (like he did to the Egyptians). But otherwise....
"Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD." 16:8
When the people complain to Moses, he tells them they aren't complaining about him, but about God, making them apostates and heretics, and therefore deserve severe punishment. Religious leaders have used this tactic ever since.
"Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword." 17:13
Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword."
"The Lord has sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." 17:14-16
God swears that he is still fighting Amalek. I hope Moses can still keep his hand up.
The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." 17:14
The God of peace will always be at war with the Amalekites.
"Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." 19:5
God favors Israelites "above all people."
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 20:3
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." 22:18
Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse.
"He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." 22:20
If this commandment were obeyed, then the four or five billion people who do not believe in the biblical god would be killed.
"Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." 23:13
Don't even mention the names of the other gods.
"I will be an enemy unto thine enemies." 23:22-23
If you obey him, God will be an enemy to your enemies, cutting them all off.
"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods ... but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." 23:24
Don't allow others to worship a different god. Conquer them and destroy their religious property.
"I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people." 23:27
God promises to "send his fear before the Israelites" and to kill everyone that they encounter when they enter the promised land.
"Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land." 23:32-33
Stay away from those who worship a different god.
"A stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy." 29:33
Don't let any strangers attend your animal sacrifices.
"Whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people." 30:33
Whoever puts holy oil on a stranger shall be "cut off from his people."
"Ye shall keep the sabbath ... every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death." 31:14
Those who break the Sabbath are to be executed.
"Let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation." 32:10
When God sees the people dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf, he gets so angry that he wants to kill everyone - except for Moses, of course, from whom he will make a great nation. So he plans to kill all the Israelites and replace them with Moses's offspring.
"Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." 32:33
"And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." 32:35p>
But God wasn't satisfied with the slaughter of the 3000, so he killed some more people with a plague.
"I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite ... ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves." 34:11-14
God drives out the pagan tribes and commands the Israelites to destroy their altars and places of worship.
"The LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." 34:14
God, "whose name is Jealous", will not tolerate the worship of any other god.
"Thou shalt make thee no molten gods." 34:17
"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death." 35:2-3
Whoever works, or even kindles a fire, on the Sabbath "shall be put to death."
"There went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." 10:1-2
Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord", so God burned them to death.
"And Aaron held his peace. 10:3
Moses tells Aaron that his sons were burned to death to sanctify and glorify God. And Aaron said nothing.
"Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people." 10:4-6
Moses tells Aaron's cousins to drag the burned bodies out of the camp, and he warns Aaron not to mourn the death of his sons or God will kill him too, along with everyone else.
"When ye be come into the land of Canaan ... I put the plague of leprosy in ... the land of your possession." 14:34
God "put the plague of leprosy" on the Canaanites.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." 18:22
Male homosexual acts are an abomination to God.
"Keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations ... that the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you." 18:26-28
"Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." 19:27
Don't round the corners of your head or beard.
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you." 19:28
Don't get any tatoos.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards." 19:31
Stay away from wizards and people with familiar spirits.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards." 19:31
Stay away from wizards and people with familiar spirits.
Don't "go a whoring" after Molech (a neighboring god) or "commit whoredom" with him. 20:5
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 20:13
If a man has sex with another man, kill them both.
"A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them." 20:27
People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death.
"Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God." 21:16-17
No one with a blemish cannot approach the altar of God.
"Whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken ... he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God." 21:18-21
No blind, lame, short, or otherwise defective people (in God' eyes) may appoach God's altar.
No stranger or slave can "eat of the holy thing." 22:10, 13
If a priest's daughter marries a stranger she can't eat any holy things. 22:12
"Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them." 22:25
God won't accept animal sacrifices from strangers, since strangers have blemishes and are corrupt.
"Whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people." 23:29-30
Don't do any work on the day of atonement or God will destroy you.
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Bring forth him that hath cursed ... and let all the congregation stone him." 24:10-14
A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded."
"He that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him." 24:16
Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community.
"Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones." 24:23
Moses commanded the people to stone to death a man who cursed. And the Israelites did as God commanded Moses.
"Thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids ... of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever" 25:44-46
God tells the Israelites to make slaves out of their neighbors and their families. The "heathens" and "strangers" are to be their possessions forever.
"But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you...." 26:14-15
If you don't follow all of the laws in the Old Testament, God will shower you with all of the curses in the next 25 verses.
"I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." 26:16
"I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies." 26:17
"And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." 26:18
"I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." 26:21
God has already promised to send plagues that will consume our eyes and feed our children to our enemies. And if we won't obey him after that, he'll bring seven more plagues on us.
"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle." 26:22
If you disobey God, he'll send wild beasts to kill your children and animals.
"I ... will punish you yet (another) seven times for your sins." 26:24
If you still won't obey, God will punish you another seven times. (See verse 11 for the ffirst seven times.)
"I will bring a sword upon you ... I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." 26:25
"And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me ... then ... I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins." 26:27-28
I guess that makes 21 times. (See verses 18 and 21.)
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." 26:29
If you disobey God, he'll force you to eat your children.
"I will ... cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." 26:30
"And I will make your cities waste." 26:31
"And I will bring the land into desolation". 26:32
"I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." 26:33
"And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." 26:38
The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 1:51
Kill any stranger that comes near the tabernacle.
Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. 3:4
Two of Aaron's sons are killed by God for "offering strange fire before the Lord."
The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 3:10
Kill any strangers that come near the tabernacle.
The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 3:38
"Put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:" 5:1-4
God tells the people to expel from camp "every leper, every one that hath an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead." So by God's instructions, the sick are abandoned and left to suffer and die alone.
"And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it (He had his hearing aid on.) .... and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them." 11:1-2
God burned the complainers alive. That'll teach them!
"There is nothing at all, beside this manna." 11:4, 19-20
The people begin to whine about not having any meat. So God says he'll give them meat, alright. He'll give them "flesh to eat," not for just a few days, but "for a whole month, until it come out of [their] nostrils, and it be loathsome to [them]." Yuck.
"And while the flesh [of the quails] was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague." 11:33
The Bible isn't too clear about what these poor folks did to upset God so much; all it says is that they had "lusted."
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." 16:20-21
God warns everyone to get away; he's going to kill some more people.
"Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me ... if the LORD make ... the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit..." 16:28-30
Moses tells the people that if the ground opens up and swallows the rebels and their families, then you'll know that God's on his side.
"The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah ... They ... went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them." 16:31-33
"And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." 16:35
"Ye have killed the people of the LORD." 16:41-50
After God killed Korah, his family, and 250 innocent bystanders, the people complained saying, "ye have killed the people of the Lord." So God, who doesn't take kindly to criticism, sends a plague on the people. And "they that died in the plague were 14,700."
"Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment." 16:44-45
God threatens (again) to kill everyone (but his special friends, Moses and Aaron).
"For there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun ... they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred." 16:46-49
"Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah." 16:49
"The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 18:7
After the people "commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab," Moses has them all killed. Then God tells Moses to hang their dead bodies up in front of him; God says that this will satisfy him. 25:1-5
When one of the Israelite men brings home a foreign woman, "Phinehas (Aaron's grandson) sees them and throws a spear "through the man .. and the woman through her belly." This act pleases God so much that "the plague was stayed from the children of Israel." But not before 24,000 had died. 25:6-9
For impaling the interracial couple, God rewards Phinehas and his sons with the everlasting priesthood. 25:10-13
God tells Moses how to care for his neighbors by saying: "Vex the Midianites, and smite them." 25:16-17
The ground swallow Korah and his companions and a fire consumes 250 men. 26:10
"And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord." When you go camping avoid making any unusual fires. 26:61
Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! (Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins.) 31:1-54
God killed all the Egyptian firstborn. 33:4
God tells Moses to exterminate the residents of Canaan and destroy all of their religious symbols and possessions. 33:50-52
But if the Israelites don't kill them all, then God will make them pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides. And he will do unto the Israelites as he planned to do to the inhabitants of Canaan. 33:55-56
"God ... shall fight for you." 1:30
"The Lord destroyed them before them" -- the general treatment of the people who were supposedly displaced by the Israelites. 2:21-22
All nations shall be terrorized by the followers of Yahweh. 2:25
God hardened the heart of the king of Heshbon and so that he could have him and all of his people killed. 2:30
At God's instructions, the Israelites "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain." 2:33-36
God destroyed the followers of Baalpeor. 4:3
If someone makes an image of anything (like a bird or flower) then God will destroy the entire nation. 4:25-26
God brought the Israelites out of Egypt "by war ... and by great terrors." 4:34
The first commandment ("Thou shalt have no other gods before me.") condemns those who worship any other than the biblical god. 5:4
If you worship the wrong god, God will get jealous and kill you. 6:15
God instructs the Israelites to kill, without mercy, all the inhabitants (strangers) of the land that they conquer. 7:2
God forbids marriages with those of other tribes. 7:3
If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly." 7:4
Destroy the altars, images, and places of worship of those with different religions. 7:5
God prefers the Israelites to everyone else. It's not that he's prejudiced, he just like them better. 7:6
God will kill those who hate him. 7:10
God's favorite people will never be infertile (neither will their cows!) and will never get sick. (God will send infertility and diseases on the other guys.) 7:14-15
God commands his people to "consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity on them." 7:16
God will send hornets to kill your enemies, "for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible." 7:20-23
"The LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed." 7:23
Burn and "utterly detest" the religious symbols of other faiths. They are an abomination to God. If you bring such an image into your house you will become "a cursed thing like it." 7:25-26
"If thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods ... ye shall surely perish." 8:19-20
God orders the destruction of all other places of worship. 12:2-3
After God kills those of other faiths, be sure to reject their beliefs and do not learn about them. Otherwise God will have to kill you too. 12:30
Prophets and dreamers are to be executed if they say or dream the wrong things. 13:1-5
If your brother, son, daughter, wife, or friend tries to get you to worship another god, "thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death." 13:6-10
If you hear of a city where another god is worshiped, then destroy everyone in the city (even the cattle) and burn it down. (Watch out Salt Lake!) 13:12-16
The Israelites are a holy, chosen, peculiar people. God likes them better than anyone else. 14:2
Kill everyone who has religious beliefs that are different from your own. 17:2-7
Anyone who will not listen to a priest or a judge must be executed. 17:12-13
Wizards, witches, astrologers, and new age folks are all "an abomination unto the Lord." 18:10-12
False prophets are to be (you guessed it) executed. How do you know who is a false prophet? By whether or not their predictions come true. (Watch out Jehovah's Witnesses!) 18:20
Women are not to wear men's clothing and vice versa -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." 22:5
God won't let bastards attend church. Neither can the sons or daughters of bastards "even to the tenth generation." So if you plan to attend church next Sunday be ready to prove that your genitals are intact and don't forget your birth certificate and genealogical records for at least the last ten generations. Don't laugh. This stuff is important to God. 23:2
No Moabite will ever be allowed into the congregation of the Lord. 23:3, 6
God says not to bring any whore, sodomite, or dog into the house of the Lord. For "these things are an abomination to the Lord." Sodomites and dogs are biblical names for homosexuals. 23:17-18
God commands the Israelites to "blot out the rembrance of Amalek from under heaven." A few hundred years later God orders Saul to kill of the Amalekites "both man and woman, infant and suckling." (1 Samuel 15:2-3) 25:19
"And thy carcass shall be meat to all the fowls of the air, and no man shall fray them away." 28:26
If you don't obey all of the laws that are given in the Old Testament, God shower you with the curses that are given in the next 52 verses. 28:16-68
"Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body." 28:18
"The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly." 28:20
"The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee." 28:21
"The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies." 28:25
"The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and the emerods [hemorrhoids], and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst be healed." 28:27
"The Lord will smite thee with madness, and , and astonishment of heart." 28:28
"And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee." 28:29
"Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes ... thine ass shall be violently taken away." 28:31
"Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people." 28:32
You will be enslaved and driven mad in another country. 28:33-34
"The Lord will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head." 28:35
You will be ruled by other nations, forced to serve other gods, become a laughingstock among your neighbors, have your crops destroyed by locusts, your vines eaten by worms, and have fruitless olive trees. 28:36-40
"Thou shalt begat sons and daughters, but thou shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity." 28:41
"All these curses shall come upon thee ... and upon thy seed for ever." 28:48-49
God will enslave you and destroy you with hunger, thirst, hardship, and all kinds of deprivation. 28:48-52
"And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." 28:53
"So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat." 28:54-55
"The tender and delicate woman" will be forced to eat her own children "that cometh out from between her feet." 28:56-57
"If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book. Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed ... Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed." 28:58-61
If the Jews don't follow God's laws he'll have most of them killed. 28:62
"The LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought." 28:63
"And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods." 28:64
"The LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind." 28:65
"And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life." 28:66
"In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see." 28:67
God will have you sold to your enemies -- but even they won't buy you. 28:68
If you serve the gods of other nations, "all the curses that are in this book" will fall upon you. 29:18-20
If you follow your own heart, God will curse you with all the curses in Deuteronomy 28:15-68. 29:19-20
"And the Lord will put all these curses upon thine enemies." See Deuteronomy 28:16-64 for some of the curses God has in mind. 30:7
Moses tells the people that God will destroy all the inhabitants of the lands that they pass through. 31:3
Humans were divided by God into groups; then God chose one group (the Israelites) as his favorite and gave all of his "inheritance" to them. 32:8-9
God hates non-believers. 32:19-20
When God gets mad -- watch out! He'll starve you to death, burn you with fire, and send vicious beasts to devour you. He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." Not even the helpless and innocent are spared by this psychotic God. 32:21-26
"For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." 32:22
"I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them." 32:23
"They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." 32:24
"The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." 32:25
"I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men." 32:26
God "magnifies" Joshua and promises to "without fail" drive out all the inhabitants of the lands through which they passed. 3:7
"And the city shall be accursed ... and all that therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live." God explains that Rahab is to be spared since she hid Joshua's spies and lied to those who were searching for them (2:4-5). But why was everyone else killed? Some of them were probably liars too. 6:17
Keep yourselves from "the accursed thing". Whatever that is. But be sure to save all the silver and gold for God! 6:18-19
"And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword." 6:21
Joshua says that those who try to rebuild Jericho will be accursed by God, and will have to sacrifice both their oldest and their youngest sons in its construction. But Jericho still exists today, and is often considered to be the world's oldest, continuously occupied city. 6:26
Joshua says that those who try to rebuild Jericho will be accursed by God, and will have to sacrifice both their oldest and their youngest sons in its construction. Well, Jericho still exists today, and is often considered to be the world's oldest, continuously occupied city. 6:26
Joshua and all the elders tear their clothes, fall on their faces, and put dust on their heads. They perform this tantrum because the Israelites lost a battle (God was punishing them because one man (Achan) "took of the accursed thing"). 7:1-13
God tells Joshua to kill whoever took "the accursed thing." 7:10-12
If you happen to see "the accursed thing," don't touch it. If you do, you, your family, and all of your animals must be burned. 7:15
"And Joshua ... took Achan ... and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his sheep... And all of Israel stoned them with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." This is because Achan "took of the accursed thing" -- whatever that means. But why would God require that Achan's sons and daughters (and even his animals) be stoned to death along with him? The Bible doesn't say. But it does tell us that "the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger" when Achan, his children, and his animals were stoned to death and their dead bodies burned. 7:24-26
"When ye have taken the city [Ai] ... ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD. 8:8
"When Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field ... all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword." 8:24
"All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand." 8:25
"And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand."
God delivers the Amorites into Joshua's hand (so he can kill them all). 10:8
"And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way."
God slaughters the Amorites and even chases them along the way. 10:10
"The LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them ... and they died."
As the Amorites try to escape, God sends down huge hailstones and kills even more of them. 10:11
God tells Joshua to "pursue after your enemies and smite the hindmost of them." (Kick their butts.) Don't let any of them escape "for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand." 10:19
Joshua tells his captains to "put your feet upon the necks of these kings." He says, "thus shall the Lord do to all of your enemies." Then Joshua kills the kings and hangs them on trees. 10:24-26
"Thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies." 10:25
Joshua, at God's command, kills everyone and everything that he can find (including babies and little children)-- or, as the Bible puts it, he "utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord commanded." 10:28-32
"Joshua passed unto Eglon ... and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed." 10:34-35
"Joshua went ... unto Hebron ... and smote it with the edge of the sword ... and all the cities ... and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining." 10:36-37
"Joshua returned ... to Debir ... And he took it ... and all the cities ... and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining."10:38-39
"So Joshua ... left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded." 10:40
"All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel." 10:42
God delivers the Hazorites into Joshua's hand, and he knows just what to do with them: he smites them all with (you guessed it) the edge of the sword until "there was not any left to breathe." 11:6-17
"And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them ... and they smote them, until they left them none remaining." 11:8
"Joshua ... smote the king thereof with the sword." 11:10
"And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe." 11:11
"And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded." 11:12
"Every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe." 11:14
"As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses." 11:15
"So Joshua took ... all their kings ... and smote them, and slew them." 11:16-17
"For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly." Notice that God hardens their hearts so that he can have an excuse to kill them. 11:20
"Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities." 11:21
"Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel?" To find out see Joshua 7:1-26. 22:20
"I plagued Egypt." 24:5
God brags about drowning the Egyptians. 24:7
"I delivered them into your hand." 24:11
God is jealous and will never forgive you for your sins. "He will turn and do you hurt, and consume you." 24:19-20
"They slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it ... And the Lord was with Judah." (You can tell by the number of innocent people he killed.) 1:17, 19
The Israelite spies killed everyone in Bethel, except for the man (and his family) who showed them how to enter the city. 1:25
An angel drops by to rebuke the Israelites for being too tolerant of the religious beliefs of the people they have been massacring. He tells them that since they didn't complete their job (of killing everyone), God will not completely drive them out (like he promised to do). Instead he'll keep some of them around so that the Israelites will be ensnared by their false gods. 2:1-3
God gets angry when the Israelites reject him and decide to worship other Gods. 2:12
God "delivers" more folks into the hands of his chosen people. "And they slew of Moab ... about 10,000 men ... and their escaped not a man." 3:28-29
Shamgar kills 600 Philistines with an ox goad. Praise God. 3:31
"The Lord discomfited Sisera ... with the edge of the sword ... and there was not a man left." 4:15-16
"So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord." (Let them all have their temples pierced by blessed women.) 5:31
"The LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man." God promises to help Gideon kill all the Midianites. 6:16
"The LORD said unto him ... throw down the altar of Baal ... and cut down the grove."
God tells Gideon to vandalize his neighbors' places of worship. 6:25
"The altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down." 6:28
Two princes are killed and their heads are brought to Gideon. 7:25
For refusing to feed him and his army, Gideon swears that he'll tear the flesh off the elders of Succoth. (And he carries out his threat in verse 16.) 8:7
"He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth." 8:16
"He beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city." 8:17
"As soon as Gideon was dead ... the children of Israel ... went a whoring after Baalim." 8:33
"God ... delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites." 11:21
"Whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we [the Israelites] possess." 11:24
"The LORD delivered them into his hands ... And he smote them ... even twenty cities ... with a very great slaughter." 11:32-33
"The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years." 13:1
Samson, with God's help, kills himself and 3000 Philistine men and women by causing a roof to collapse, setting an example for Bible-based terrorism. 16:27-30
"So David ... fought with the Philistines ... and smote them with a great slaughter." 23:5
"The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them." If God doesn't like you, he'll send a thunderstorm your way to break your body into little pieces. 2:10
God will kill those who sin against him. 2:25
God kills 50,070 men for looking into the ark. "And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter." 6:19
"Saul ... slew the Ammorites unto the heat of the day." Then he took a little break. After all, killing is hard work. 11:11
To day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel."
God saved the Israelites by slaughtering the Ammonites. 11:13
God orders Saul to kill all of the Amalekites: men, women, infants, sucklings, ox, sheep, camels, and asses. Why? Because God remembers what Amalek did hundreds of years ago. 15:2-3
Saul killed everyone but Agag (the king) and the best of the animals. But still God was furious with Saul for not killing everything as he had been told to do. He said, "it repenteth me that I have set Saul up to be king." 15:7-26
Saul is rebuked by Samuel for "doing evil in the sight of the Lord" by failing to kill all of the Amalekites. 15:18-19
Because Saul didn't kill everyone as God commanded, God changes his mind about him being king. 15:23-26
To please God, Samuel hacks Agag in pieces "before the Lord" [I bet God enjoyed that!] -- after Agag pleads with him saying, "surely the bitterness of death has past." 15:32-34
"David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter." 19:8
"David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines." 23:2
"Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said ... I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand." 23:4
"And David smote the land and left neither man nor woman alive." (No wonder God liked David so much!) 27:8-11
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
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
"They left their images, and David and his men burned them." 5:21
"The LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you:
for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods."
Note that Solomon is told to stay away from foreign women. Why? Because they have different ("strange")
religious beliefs, and God disapproves of mixed-faith marriages. 11:2
His wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God."
The wisest man that ever lived (1 Kings 4:31) was misled by his wives into worshipping other gods.
11:4
"For the LORD shall smite Israel ... because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger." 14:15
"When she came to the threshold of the door, the child died."
To punish Jeroboam for making gold calves, God killed his son. 14:17
"There were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations...."
God shows his homophobia by calling gay people "sodomites" and their sexual relations "abominations." 14:24
Asa "did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD" by expelling homosexuals (or "sodomites", as the good book calls them). 15:12
Baasha kills "all of the house of Jeroboam" leaving none "to breath." This slaughter was done "according to the word of the Lord." 15:29
Elijah kills 450 prophets of Baal. 18:22, 40
"Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy
father, I will restore ... Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this
covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away."
King Ahab is merciful to king Beh-hada. God will later kill him for it. (See 1 Kings 20:42 and
22:35) 20:34
Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction,
therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people."
The prophet tells king Ahab that he will be killed and his people punished for not killing Ben-hadad:
"Your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people." 20:42
Naboth is stoned to death for blaspheming god and the king. 21:13
Jehoshaphat "did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord" and "took" the homosexuals (sodomites) "out of the land," or as the RSV says, "he exterminated" them. 22:43, 46
Ahaziah was sick and sent messengers to Baalzebub to ask if he would recover. God was jealous of the attention given to his competitor and tells Ahaziah that he will die for asking the wrong god. 1:2-8
God kills Ahaziah for consulting another God. 1:16-17
God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha's bald head. 2:23-24
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
Jehu kills all that remained of king Ahab's family. 10:11
Jehu shows off his zeal for the Lord by murdering "all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him according to the word of the Lord." 10:16-17
Jehu lied to the followers of Baal so that he could trap and kill them. 10:19
Jehu warns his guards saying, "If any of the men escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him." 10:24
Jehu, when he finishes his animal sacrifices, orders his men to "Go in, and slay them, let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword." 10:25
God is greatly pleased with all of Jehu's killings, saying "because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart [Jehu murdered them all], thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." 10:30
The "Lord's people" destroyed the "house of Baal" and killed "the priest of Baal before the altars." 11:17-18
God strikes king Azariah with leprosy "unto the day of his death" for not removing the high places. 15:5
God sent lions to devour the foreigners in Samaria because "they feared not the Lord," and even worse "they knew not the manner of the God of the land." 17:25-26
King Josiah (with God's approval) "put down" the priests and destroyed the sacred objects of all other religions. 23:4-6
Josiah, with God's approval, broke down the houses of the sodomites. 23:7
Josiah, apparently with God's approval, kills "all the priests of the high places" and sacrifices them to God on their altars. Note that this is a guy who "did what was right in the eyes of the Lord" (2 Kings 22:2). 23:20
The sons of Reuben made war with the Hagarites and "there fell down many slain, because the war was from God." They did pretty well for themselves, too, in God's war, taking 250,000 sheep and 100,000 slaves. 5:18-22
But the Israelites "transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them." So God inspired the Assyrians to enslave the Israelites. 5:25-26
"Phinehas ... the LORD was with him."
See Numbers 25:7-8 to see what he did when the Lord was with him.
9:20
Saul died for refusing God's order to kill all of the Amalekites (1 Sam 15:2-3, 18-19) and for consulting a witch (1 Sam 28:8-19). 10:13-14
"When they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire." 14:12
Solomon's Egyptian wife can't be around holy places. Is that because she is a woman or because she is an Egyptian, or both? 8:11
Asa destroyed the temples of other gods and forbade their worship. 14:2-5
"Nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity." 15:6
"Asa ... put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah." 15:8
"Whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." 15:13
Executing non-believers brings peace. 15:15
"And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it." 15:16
Hate the sinner -- or God will pour his wrath out on you. 19:2
God told Jehu to kill everyone in the house of Ahab and then later condemned him for it (Hosea 1:4). 22:7-9
Only Levites can enter "the house of the Lord". "Whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death." 23:6-7
The priest (Jehoiada) tells the people to kill Athaliah and her followers. So they find her and kill her. "And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword." (Don't you just love happy endings?) 23:14-15, 21
"Then all the people went to the house of Baal" and broke its altar into pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal. 23:17
Amaziah (who "did that which was right in the sight of the Lord") killed 10,000 people; another 10,000 he left alive to throw off a cliff "that they all were broken in pieces." 25:1-2, 11-12
God was pleased with Amaziah when he was slaughtering Edomites and throwing people off cliffs, but not when he decided to worship other gods. So God decided to kill Amaziah and cause his army to be defeated by the Israelites. 25:16-27
God makes Uzziah a leper for burning incense without a license. 26:19-21
Pekah killed 120,000 people in one day and enslaves 200,000 women and children "because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers." 28:6-8
"All Israel ... went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah ... until they had utterly destroyed them all." 31:1
Josiah, with the Bible's approval, persecuted those with different religious beliefs. 34:1-5
God vows to "bring evil upon this place ... even all the curses that are written in the book." He says his "wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." 34:24-25
The Israelites offend God by "taking" foreign wives and thereby corrupting "the holy seed." 9:2
Ezra tells the men that they must abandon their wives and children if they are to avoid God's wrath. 10:2-3, 10-12
The Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever. 13:1
Nehemiah rebukes the men for marrying "strange wives." To punish them he "contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair." 13:25-27
At Esther's request, the king orders a preemptive strike on all 127 provinces from Egypt to Ethiopia. Everyone who planned
to kill Jews shall be killed by Jews, along with their wives and children. And all this killing is to take place on a single day.
(How are the Jews to figure out who planned to kill them and who didn't? Were they supposed to just kill them all and let God sort it out?
And why did they need to kill the women and children?) 8:9-11
On the day when all Jew-haters (and their families) were killed by Jews, "the Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour ... a feast and a good day." 8:16-17
"Many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them."
God's favorite way of making converts: Convert or be killed! 8:17
The Jews kill everyone who ever had a bad thought toward them, along with their Jew-hating families. 9:1-16
"The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them." 9:5
"In Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men." 9:6
"The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they." 9:10
Esther asks the king to kill all those who planned to kill the Jews and hang the already dead bodies of Haman's ten sons on trees. 9:12-14
"The Jews ... slew three hundred men at Shushan." 9:15
"The other Jews ... slew of their foes seventy and five thousand." 9:16
If you ask God, he'll force heathens to be your slaves and help you "dash them in pieces." 2:8-9
Kiss the Son or God will get angry and might have to kill you. 2:12
God has smitten his "enemies upon the cheek bone" and has "broken the teeth of the ungodly." 3:7
Christians often say that one should love the sinner but hate the sin. Perhaps, but God hates sinners and plans to destroy them. 5:5-6
If you pray to God, he will kill your enemies for you. 9:3-6
God will rain fire and brimstone on "wicked" folks. 11:6
"The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things." 12:3
The God of peace teaches us how to kill our neighbors in war. 18:34
If you make God angry, he'll burn you and your children to death. 21:9-10
God will shoot his adversaries in the back with his arrows. 21:12
The psalmist sets an example for Christians by hating people but loving God. 31:6
A sweet prayer for the destruction of one's enemies: Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.... Let destruction come upon him at unawares." 35:6,8
The Psalmist praises God for driving out and afflicting "the heathen" with his own hand. 44:2
If you forget God, God will tear you into pieces. 50:22
If you don't trust in God, he'll kill you and while you're dying the "righteous" will laugh at you. 52:5-7
God will send evil on the enemies of his followers. 54:5
Referring to his enemies, the psalmist says: "Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell." 55:15
The psalmist devoutly prays: "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth ... let them be cut in pieces." 58:6-7
"The righteous" will rejoice when he sees "the wicked" being dismembered by God. He'll even get a chance to wash his feet in their blood. Now that's entertainment! 58:10
The psalmist asks God to kill all "the heathen" and not show them any mercy. 59:5
God will laugh at the heathen as he kills them. 59:8
"The God of mercy" will let the psalmist see his enemies tormented. 59:10
"Consume them in thy wrath, consume them." -- more sweet prayers to a savage god. 59:13
God divides the world into those countries that he likes and those that he doesn't. Those he doesn't like he calls names (like "washpot") and says that he will throw his shoe at them. 60:7-8
God will "wound the head of his enemies" so that the righteous can wash their feet "in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same." 68:21, 23
The psalmist prays that his enemies be tormented and blinded by God. He asks God to "make their loins continually to shake." 69:23-28
"They that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee." 73:27
"The LORD heard this" (he had his hearing aid on) and became angry, and burned people "because they believed not in God." 78:21-22
"The wrath of God came upon them" and God killed many of the Israelites for not believing in "his wondrous works." 78:31-34
God "cast out the heathen" and gave their lands to the Israelites. 78:55
The psalmist asks God to pour out his wrath on somebody else for a change. Why not torment some strangers "that have not known thee?" 79:5-6
The psalmist asks God to " do unto them as unto the Midianites ... which became as dung for the earth." 83:9-18
If you don't follow God's commandments, he will beat you with a rod. 89:31-32
"I will ... destroy all the wicked of the land." 101:8
The psalmist recounts God's treatment of the Egyptians: "He smote the firstborn in their land." See Exodus 12:29-30 for the gory details. 105:29-36
God is praised for the creative ways that he kills people: drowning, earth-swallowing, burning, etc. 106:11-19
God sent a plague on the Israelites for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab." But "then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment [by throwing a spear through a newly married couple]: and so the plague was stayed." But not before 24,000 (1 Corinthians 10:8 says 23,000) had died. (See Numbers 25:6-9 for all the gory details.) 106:29-30
God is offended by those who make things with their hands or invent things with their minds. 106:39
The psalmist asks God to do all sorts of unpleasant things to his enemies. "Set thou a wicked man over him; and let Satan stand at his right hand .... Let his prayer become sin." He asks God to take away his possessions, kill him, and have his children suffer for the sins of their fathers. 109:6-14
God will "fill the places with dead bodies" of heathens. 110:6
God is praised for slaughtering kings, nations, and little babies. 135:8, 10
"To him that smote Egypt in their first born: for his mercy endures forever." 136:10
The psalmist excels at hating. He hates people with a "perfect hatred" and asks God to kill them. 139:19-22
A prayer that God will burn people to death. 140:10
The God of Peace teaches us to kill each other in war. 144:1
The saints praise God while they kill and enslave "the heathen." 149:5-8
Scorners (skeptics?) should be condemned; fools should be beaten. 19:29
If you don't listen to and follow the laws of Moses, then don't even try praying, because your prayer will become an abomination. 28:9
If I hadn't left a few faithful people in Judah, I'd have destroyed it like it was Sodom and Gomorrah. 1:9
If you obey me, you'll have something to eat. But if you refuse and rebel against me, you'll be killed with a sword. 1:19-20
I will avenge me of my enemies. 1:24
I'll destoy the sinners and those who forsake me. 1:28
"The idols he shall utterly abolish." 2:18
"I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour." 3:4-5
Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen, because of what their people said and did against God. 3:8
They declare their sin as Sodom did, they don't hide it. Woe to them. They deserve the evil they will receive. 3:9
God will kill those who despise his word and fail to follow his laws. Their carcasses will be "torn in the midst of the streets." 5:24-25
If you associate or gird yourself, God will break you in pieces. 8:9
God will have no mercy on the widows and children of hypocrites. 9:17
Some day God will have his "mighty ones ... destroy the whole land." 13:3-5
On God's day he will kill sinners with great anger, wrath, and cruelty. Those who die will have their faces consumed by flames. 13:6-9
If God can find you, he will "thrust you through," smash your children "to pieces" before your eyes, and rape your wife. He will have no mercy, but will even kill your little children. 13:15-18
God will slaughter children "for the iniquity of their fathers." 14:21
After God destroys Moab, the rivers will be red with blood. He will send lions to eat any survivors. 15:9
The God of Peace will set brother against brother and kingdom against kingdom. Then he'll make the survivors seed the counsel of "wizards," and subject them to a "cruel lord." 19:2-4
The Apocalypse of Isaiah: God will destroy the earth, burning everyone and every living thing alive (except maybe a few men). 24:1-6
God will stomp on Moab like straw on a dunghill.
God will have no mercy on those who don't understand him. 27:11
"Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me." 30:1
"And the people shall ... be burned in the fire." 33:12
God is furious at everyone and is ready to kill them all. Or as Isaiah so delicately puts it: "Their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood." 34:2-3
God makes Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba pay for Israel's sins. He says that he likes Israel better than any other country so he's willing to sacrifice other countries for the Israel's sake. 43:3-4
No astrologer, stargazer, or prognosticator will be able to save those that God plans to burn to death. 47:13-14
"The Lord ... will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans." 48:14
"I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine." 49:26
Nations that do not serve Israel will perish. 60:12
"I will ... trample them in my fury; and their blood ... will stain all my raiment." (God's clothes will get stained with the blood of humans.) 63:2-6
"God's servants" will have it good; everyone else will suffer big time. 63:13-16
"Ye are they that forsake the LORD ... Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter." 65:11-12
"God's servants" will eat, drink, and be merry; everyone else will be hungry, thirsty, and ashamed -- until God kills them, that is. 65:13-16
God will "plead with all flesh" with fire and sword, "and the slain of the Lord shall be many." 66:15-16
Don't eat "swine flesh" (like ham or bacon) or other "abominable things" or God will have to kill you. 65:4, 66:17
"They shall ... look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall t heir fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." 66:24
God will send enemy nations against his "chosen people." 1:14-15
Those who worship "other gods" are wicked. "I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods." 1:16
"They shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee." 1:19
God tries to "correct" people by killing their children. 2:30
God tries to reform people by tormenting them and then wonders why it doesn't work. 5:3
Those who don't follow or know God are "poor" and "foolish." 5:4
"How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have ... committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses." 5:7
God will burn the people to death for discovering his non-existence. 5:14
God again talks of bringing a foreign nation to destroy his chosen ones and their lands. 5:15-17
God just can't hold in his fury any longer. He will kill everyone: husbands and wives, children and old people. 6:11
God "will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts" because they refuse to do whatever the hell he asks them to do. 6:19
God says that there are some people that you just shouldn't bother praying for. And if you do he won't listen anyway. 7:16
God is angered by children who gather wood, fathers who make fires, and women that make bread for the "queen of heaven" (Mary?) and other gods. 7:18
God will pour out his anger on both man and beast. Not even the trees will be spared from his wrath. And the ground itself will burn forever. 7:20
Don't trust anyone. Not even your neighbors, family, or friends. Those who believe differently than you are all liars and evil doers. 9:4-6
"Learn not the way of the heathen." 10:2
Jeremiah prays for the destruction of people and families that don't call on God's name. 10:25
Those who don't follow the Old Testament laws are cursed by God. 11:3
Jeremiah prays for vengeance upon his enemies. 11:20
Jeremiah asks God to drag away his enemies like "sheep for the slaughter."Â 12:3
If any nation does not listen to God, he "will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation." 12:17
Apparently, the point of the girdle story (13:1-7) was to say that worshipping other gods "is good for nothing." 13:10
God plans to make everyone in the kingdom drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." The merciful God of peace vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." 13:12-14
God tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people. God has decided to kill them all and he doesn't want to be talked out of it. 14:11
God will destroy by famine and sword those who are misled by the prophets, as well as the prophets themselves. 14:15-16
God has it all planned out. He'll kill some with the sword, some with famine, and he'll feed the rest to the dogs and birds. Why will he do these terrible things? Because of something a former king did. 15:2-4
God will kill children if their parents worship other gods. 16:10-11
God will enslave the people of Judah because they worshipped the wrong gods. 17:4
Jeremiah asks God to bring evil upon his enemies and to "destroy them with double destruction." 17:18
If you don't honor the Sabbath, God will burn you to death unquenchable fire. 17:27
For worshipping "other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known," God will make parents eat their own children, and friends each other. Then he'll feed whoever's left to the birds. 19:4, 7-9
God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all. 19:11-13
"Thus saith the LORD ... I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words." 19:15
Because the people of Judah were unfaithful to him, God will send the king of Babylon (Nebuchadrezzar) to destroy Jerusalem and enslave Judah. 25:6-11
God kills Hananiah for disagreeing with Jeremiah. 28:16-17
God will kill those who refuse listen to his prophets. 29:19
To punish the people for refusing to free their slaves, God over-reacts (just a tad) by threatening to send the sword, pestilence, and famine, saying he'll feed their dead bodies to the fowls and beasts of the earth. 34:17-20
God explains why he had to bring evil on Judah: the people burned incense to other gods. 44:2-8
God's not finished with Judah. He'll bring more evil upon them. Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will hunt them down and kill them all with war, famine, and disease. 44:11-13
God is going to do some really bad things to the people because the women burned incense to the "Queen of Heaven" (Mary?). 44:15-25
"I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him." 46:25
God will destroy everyone in Moab. Fire will burn their heads, and their sons and daughters will be taken captive. 48:42-47
God will cause the daughters of the Ammonites to be burned with fire. 49:2
God will send such marvelous plagues on Edom that everyone will hiss in astonishment. 49:17
God plans to "bring evil upon" the people of Elam. He says he'll kill them all with a sword. 49:37
"I have laid a snare for thee ... O Babylon, and thou wast not aware ... because thou hast striven against the LORD." 50:24
"The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord." 50:25
"Destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left." 50:26
"Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them!" 50:27
Call together the archers against Babylon ... let none thereof escape." 50:29
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD." 50:30
"Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger." 3:63-64
God's killing rules:
If Ezekiel doesn't warn the wicked that God's going to kill them for being wicked, God will kill the wicked people and Ezekiel, too.
If Ezekiel warns the wicked, then God will kill the wicked people (if they don't change their wicked ways), but not Ezekiel.
If a good person does something wrong after God "lays a stumbling block before him," then God will kill him. "He shall die in his sin"
and whatever good he has done will be forgotten. And Ezekiel will be killed, too, if he didn't warn the good guy beforehand. 3:18-20
God will decorate the land with the bones and dead bodies of those who worship a different god. 6:4-5
God makes his presence known by killing people with famine, disease, and war. 6:7-14
God shows Ezekiel a group of women weeping for Tammuz. Tammuz was the Sumero-Accadian god of plant life. Each year after the summer solstice there was a period of ritual mourning for the loss of sunlight and the decline of vegetation. God calls it an abomination. 8:14-15
God again vows to destroy those that dare worship something or someone other than him. 14:6-8
God threatens three times to kill all the Israelites for disobeying him, but after thinking about it a bit, he decided not to. 20:8, 13, 21
"I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen ... Thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision ... thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow." 23:30-33
God will kill everyone that claps his hands or stamps his feet "against the land of Israel." When he's done with the killing everyone will know that he is the Lord. 25:6-17
God says he will destroy Tyrus. He plans to kill everyone, but he is especially looking forward to killing all of the women. "And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD." 26:1-21
God says that Zidon will know that he is the Lord when he sends "pestilence and blood into her streets." 28:22-23
God tells Ezekiel to prophesy against the pharaoh and against all Egypt. God says he will feed the Egyptians to the birds and beasts. 29:2-9
God will punish Egypt and her allies by sending Nebuchadrezzar to "fill the land with the slain." Then he will make "the rivers dry," sell the land to "the wicked," make "the land waste," light fires, and kill all their young men with the sword. 30:4-26
"And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt." (The Divine Pyromaniac) 30:8, 30:14, 30:16
"Thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD." 31:18
God will treat Pharaoh like a whale fished out of the sea. Every bird and beast in the world will feed upon him. 32:3-6
Pharaoh and all his multitude, along with the uncircumcised, will be killed with the sword. 32:20-32
God tells Ezekiel about his plans for the Edomites (Seir). He's going to kill them all. That way they'll know for sure that he is the Lord. 35:2-15
Worshipping idols and other gods is "detestable." 37:23
God sets a fire on Magog and feeds Gog and all of his people to the birds and beasts. He did all this to let them know that he is the Lord. 39:4-7
"They have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger." 43:8
Don't bring any strangers or people with uncircumcised hearts or flesh to God's sanctuary when offering him fat and blood. 44:7-9
No stranger or uncircumcised person may enter the sanctuary. 44:9
Stay away from idols or you'll bear your iniquity (i.e., God will kill you). But be sure to offer God lots of fat and blood and burnt offerings. 44:10-15
King Darius makes a decree, "that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel." 6:26
It's not clear in the KJV, but "people" and "strangers" are translated as "aliens" and "foreigners" in other versions. This would mean part of the reason for Ephraim's bloody fate is association with other races. 7:8-9
"Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them!" 7:13
"They return, but not to the most High ... their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue." 7:16
Because the Samaritans chose to worship another deity, God will dash their infants to pieces and their "women with child shall be ripped up."Â 13:16
"Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more."
Jerusalem will be "holy" when there are no non-Jews (and/or non-Christians) in Jerusalem. 3:17
God says there are three or four reasons for him to punish Moab. But he only mentions one: "because he burned the bones of the king of Edom." So God burned Moab because they burned some bones. 2:1
God will "slay all the princes" of Moab. 2:3
The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5
God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9
"For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten." 5:3
"Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it." 5:6
God promises to destroy those who worship other gods. 7:9
God tells Amos that the end has come for the people of Israel. He won't wait any longer to kill them all. 8:2
God will kill so many people that dead bodies will lay everywhere. 8:3-14
God will destroy the "the sinful kingdom" and "all the sinners" among his people. 9:8-10
The Israelites hear "a rumor from the Lord" telling them to start a war with the Edomites. 1, 8
God tells Israelites to "destroy the wise men out of Edom" and to slaughter "everyone of the mount of Esau." 8-9
God will burn all the heathen to death, "for the LORD hath spoken it." 16-18
God will destroy Samaria with stones. 1:6
God will destroy the art and buildings of other religions. 1:7
God will strengthen the Israelites so they can "beat in pieces many peoples" and give the booty to God. 4:13
"They shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword." 5:6
Like a young lion "the remnant of Jacob" will tear the Gentiles to pieces. 5:8
"Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off." 5:9
God will "cut off" the witches and soothsayers. 5:11-12
"Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands." 5:13
God will destroy entire cities, and "execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard." 5:14-15
The Gentiles will be made deaf, shall lick dust and be forced to crawl like worms from fear of God and his people. 7:16-17
God doesn't just get even. He drowns or burns to death his enemies. 1:8-10
Habakkuk praises God for slaughtering "the heathen." 3:12-14
God will "cut off" all those who "have not sought the Lord" or who worship another god. 1:4-6
God will punish the princes, the king's children, the merchant people, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel, leap on the threshold, or bear silver. 1:8-11
God doesn't have good night-vision, so he needs candles when he comes to rob people of their houses, goods, and wine. 1:12-13
God will "bring distress upon men" so that they "walk like blind men." He will pour out their blood like dust and "their flesh as dung." 1:17-18
God will kill all the inhabitants of the sea coast. 2:5
God will destroy Moab and Ammon just like he did to Sodom and Gomorrah. 2:9
"And men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen." 2:11
God will kill the Ethiopians with his own sword. 2:12
God says the Israelites are his favorite people, "the apple of his eye." If you mess with them, he'll shake his hand at you. 2:8-9
"For I set all men every one against his neighbor." 8:10
God will cast out Tyrus and devour it with fire. 9:4
"I [God] make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire ... and they shall devour all the people round about." 12:6
"I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." 12:9
Someday prophets will be killed by their own parents by "thrusting him through when he prophesieth." 13:3
God will "go forth and fight" for Jerusalem with "his feet" on the mount of Olives. (After he forces all the nations of the world to fight against Jerusalem.) 14:3
God will make everyone fight and kill his neighbor. 14:13
Whoever survives all these plagues and slaughters must worship God. 14:16
God will "smite the heathen" with a plague. 14:18
"There shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts." 14:21
God hates the Edomites, and his hatred will last forever. Whenever the Edomites build something, God will tear it down. 1:4
"My name is dreadful among the heathen." 1:14
"Judah ... hath married the daughter of a strange god." 2:11
God will burn "the wicked" and the "righteous" will walk around on their ashes. 4:1-3
While insulting the Pharisees and Sadducees, John the Baptist calls an entire generation a "generation of vipers." 3:7
Those who bear bad fruit will be cut down and burned "with unquenchable fire." 3:10, 12
Jesus says that most people will go to hell. 7:13-14
Those who fail to bear "good fruit" will be "hewn down, and cast into the fire." 7:19
"The children of the kingdom [the Jews] shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 8:12
Jesus tells his disciples to keep away from the Gentiles and Samaritans, and go only to the Israelites. 10:5-6
Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen 19:24). 10:14-15
Families will be torn apart because of Jesus (this is one of the few "prophecies" in the Bible that has actually come true). "Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death." 10:21
"Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." 10:33
Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword." 10:34-36
Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching. 11:20-24
"He that is not with me is against me." 12:30
"Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him." 12:31-32
Jesus often called people names. One of his favorites was to call his adversaries a "generation of vipers." 12:34
Jesus will send his angels to gather up "all that offend" and they "shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." 13:41-42, 50
"Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." 15:13
Jesus refuses to heal the Canaanite woman's possessed daughter, saying "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs." 15:22-26
The ever-so-kind Jesus calls the Pharisees "hypocrites, wicked, and adulterous." Why? For asking for some evidence that Jesus is who he claims to be. 16:3-4
"Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder." Whoever falls on "this stone" (Jesus) will be broken, and whomever the stone falls on will be ground into powder. 21:44
In the parable of the marriage feast, the king sends his servants to gather everyone they can find, both bad and good, to come to the wedding feast. One guest didn't have on his wedding garment, so the king tied him up and "cast him into the outer darkness" where "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 22:1-14
Jesus condemns the Jews for being "the children of them which killed the prophets." 23:31
Jesus blames his the Jews (who were then living) for "all the righteous blood" from Abel to Zecharias. 23:35
The servant who kept and returned his master's talent was cast into the "outer darkness" where there will be "weeping and gnashing of teeth." 25:30
Jesus judges the nations. 25:31-46
Jesus tells us what he has planned for those that he dislikes. They will be cast into an "everlasting fire." 25:41
"His blood be on us, and on our children." This verse blames the Jews for the death of Jesus and has been used to justify their persecution for twenty centuries. 27:25
Jesus becomes angry at those who said that he had "an unclean spirit," so he announces the unforgivable sin: "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." 3:29
Any city that doesn't "receive" the followers of Jesus will be destroyed in a manner even more savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. 6:11
Jesus initially refuses to cast out a devil from a Syrophoenician (non-Jewish) woman's daughter, calling the woman a "dog". After much pleading, he finally agrees to cast out the devil. 7:27
If you're ashamed of Jesus, he'll be ashamed of you. 8:38
Jesus says that those that believe and are baptized will be saved, while those who don't will be damned. 16:16
Those who fail to bear "good fruit" will be "hewn down, and cast into the fire." 3:9
John the Baptist says that Christ will burn the damned "with fire unquenchable." 3:17
Jesus says that entire cities will be violently destroyed and the inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for not "receiving" his disciples. 10:10-15
"He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me." If you don't like what Pat Robertson says (or any other Christian), then you don't like Jesus, and if you don't like Jesus, you don't like God. 10:16
Jesus says, "He that is not with me is against me." 11:23
Those who "blaspheme against the Holy Ghost" will never be forgiven. 12:10
God is like a slave-owner who beats his slaves "with many stripes." 12:46-47
According to Jesus, only a few will be saved; the vast majority will suffer eternally in hell where "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 13:23-30
Jesus also believes the story about Sodom's destruction. He says, "even thus shall it be in the day the son of man is revealed ... Remember Lot's wife." This tells us about Jesus' knowledge of science and history, and his sense of justice. 17:29-32
In the parable of the talents, Jesus says that God takes what is not rightly his, and reaps what he didn't sow. The parable ends with the words: "bring them [those who preferred not to be ruled by him] hither, and slay them before me." 19:12-27
People are damned or saved depending only on what they believe. 3:18, 36
The "wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. 3:36
John, with his usual anti-Semitism, says that the Jews persecuted Jesus and "sought to slay him." 5:16, 18
John says that Jesus "would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him." 7:1
No one could speak openly about Jesus "for fear of the Jews." 7:13
If you don't believe in Jesus, you will "die in your sins" (and then go to hell). 8:24
Jesus calls his opponents (the Jews) the sons of the devil. 8:44
"Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him." 10:31
Once again, "the Jews" are accused of trying to kill Jesus. 11:8
If you don't believe in Jesus you are going to hell. 12:48
" I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." 14:6
Jesus is the only way to heaven. All other religions lead to hell.
"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father."
If you follow Jesus' teachings, God will love you -- otherwise... well, you know.
14:21
Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast into a fire to be burned. 15:6
Now that Jesus has come, non-believers have no excuse for not believing in him. 15:22
"I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me."
Jesus only prays for people who believe in him. Everyone else can go to hell. 17:9
John blames the Jews for the death of Jesus. 19:7, 12, 14-15
"For fear of the Jews"
You've got to watch out for Jews wherever you go. 19:38
John, with his usual anti-Semitism, says that the disciples hid in locked room "for fear of the Jews." 20:19
Peter blames the Jews for the death of Jesus. 3:14-15
Peter claims that Dt 18:18-19 refers to Jesus, saying that those who refuse to follow him (all non-Christians) must be killed. 3:23
God will torture forever those who don't know the password to heaven. 4:12
Once again, Peter accuses the Jews of murdering Jesus. 5:30
Stephen, filled with the Holy Ghost, delivers a long, boring, anti-Semitic speech in a synagogue. 7:2-53
Stephen blames the Jews for persecuting the prophets and murdering Jesus. 7:51-52
After Saul "increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews," the "Jews took counsel to kill him." 9:22-23
The Jews are again blamed for the death of Jesus. 10:39
Herod kills James the brother of John and imprisons Peter "because he saw it pleased the Jews." 12:1-3
Herod killed James the brother of John and imprisoned Peter "because he saw it pleased the Jews." (Jews just love to see Christians killed with the sword.) 12:1-3
Paul and the Holy Ghost conspire together to make Elymas (the sorcerer) blind. 13:8-11
The Jews of Antioch, after seeing Paul's success in preaching, were envious and blasphemed God. Paul then declares them to be "unworthy of everlasting life." 13:45-46
Once again "the Jews stirred up" trouble and "raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts." 13:50
"The unbelieving Jews" stir up trouble again for Paul and incite the people to try to stone him to death. 14:2-5
In Thessalonica, "the Jews which believed not, moved with envy" stir up trouble for Paul and his friends. 17:5
"The Jews of Thessalonica ... stirred up the people." 17:13
"And when they [the Jews of Corinth] opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he [Paul] shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads." (Have a nice day?) 18:6
"The Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat." 18:12
The first Christian book burning occurs when Paul's converts at Ephesus burn 50,000 silver pieces' worth of books. (A silver piece was worth about a day's wage.) 19:19
Poor Paul complains, once again, of being mistreated by "the Jews." 20:19
The Jews, once again, incite the people to kill poor old Paul. But he escapes and delivers another long, boring speech. 21:27-40
The Jews form a grand conspiracy to kill Paul. They vow not to eat or drink until the job is done. (The first hunger strike?) 23:12-15
Claudius saves Paul from being killed by the Jews. 23:27
Those pesky Jews caught Paul and and tried to kill him. But he got away. Darn! 26:21
The existence and nature of God are self-evident; thus, unbelievers are "without excuse." 1:20
Atheists have dark and foolish hearts. 1:21
God abandons those who don't know him to "uncleanness and vile affections." 1:24, 26, 28
With his usual intolerance, Paul condemns homosexuals (including lesbians). This is the only clear reference to lesbians in the Bible. 1:26-28
Homosexuals (those "without natural affection") and their supporters (those "that have pleasure in them") are "worthy of death" - along with gossips, boasters, and disobedient children. 1:31-32
Paul says that those who accuse him of lying deserve damnation. 3:8
God blinded the Jews so they wouldn't recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 11:7-10, 25
"As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election,
they are beloved for the father's sakes."
Jews are enemies to Christians, but God loves them for their ancestors' sake. 11:28
Gentiles used to be unbelievers, but now the Jews are the unbelievers and God saves gentiles through Jewish unbelief. It's all a part of God's plan. 11:30
"He that doubteth is damned ... Whosoever is not of faith is sin." 14:23
Shun those who disagree with your religious views. 16:17
Christians can judge everything and everybody, but no non-Christian can judge them. 2:15
"Put away from among yourselves that wicked person."
Stay away from "fornicators", "idolaters", and "drunkards". Do not associate, speak to, or eat
dinner with such "wicked" people. 5:9-13
"Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?" 6:2
Paul lists ten things that will keep you out of heaven, including homosexuality and being "effeminate." 6:9-10
Don't be an idolater. If you become one, God will make you sit down to eat and then rise up to play. 10:7
Paul claims that God killed 23,000 in a plague for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab 10:8
Gentiles sacrifice to devils. If you have gentile friends, then you are friends with devils. 10:20
Those who don't love Jesus are to be "anathema" (damned). 16:22
Keep away from unbelievers. Neither marry nor be friends with them. 6:14-17
Christians cannot be freethinkers, since all their thoughts and imaginings must be brought into captivity in obedience to Christ. 10:5
Paul says he "will not spare" when he comes back to punish those who have sinned. 13:2
Are you a reprobate? Here's the test: if you know for sure that Jesus is in you, you're not a reprobate. Otherwise you are. 13:5
If anyone dares to disagree with Paul on religious matters, "let him be accursed." 1:8-9
Those who try to follow the law are cursed. 3:10
"I would they were even cut off which trouble you." Gosh, that doesn't sound very nice. But I wonder what Paul meant by "cut off". The New Revised Standard Version translates this verse as: "I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!" 5:12
Witches, idol worshippers, and heretics will not go to heaven. (Guess where they'll be going.) 5:20-21
No "unclean person" or "idolater" will inherit the kingdom of God. (They'll all be going to hell.) Don't associate with them. 5:5-7
Those who refuse to obey will face the wrath of God. 5:6
Everyone will have to worship Jesus -- whether they want to or not. 2:10-11
"Beware of dogs ... beware of the concision." I'm not sure who Paul is calling "dogs" here, but it's probably the Jews -- those of "the circumcision," as opposed to Christians, who are of the "true circumcision." 3:2
God is planning a messy, mass murder in "the wrath to come" and only Jesus can save you from it. 1:10
Paul accuses "the Jews" of killing Jesus, persecuting the prophets, displeasing God, and being "contrary to all men." He concludes that the wrath of God will "come upon them to the uttermost. 2:15-16
Jesus will take "vengeance on them that know not God" by burning them forever "in flaming fire." 1:7-9
God will cause us to believe lies so that he can damn our souls to hell. 2:11-12
Shun those who disagree with your interpretation of this epistle. 3:6, 14
"Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." Apparently (see 2 Tim 2:16-18 and 4:14-15) their "blasphemy" was disagreeing with Paul. 1:20
Stay away from those who discuss important matters -- especially if they disagree with Paul. 6:5
"If we deny him [Jesus], he will deny us." Fair is fair! 2:12
Shun non-believers and other profane babblers. 2:16
Hymenaeus and Philetus are condemned for disagreeing with "Paul" about the timing of the resurrection. (See 1 Tim 1:20 and 2 Tim 4:14-15) 2:17-18
"The Lord knoweth them that are his." This verse was used by the Catholic Church during the inquisition to justify killing those suspected of heresy. (Kill them all, for `the Lord knows them that are His'." ) 2:19
God will "reward" Alexander for the "blasphemy" of disagreeing with "Paul". (See 1 Tim 1:20 and 2 Tim 2:16-18) 4:14
Jews are unruly liars "whose mouths must be stopped." 1:10-11
The people of Crete are "always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." 1:12
Heretics are to be rejected since they are subverted, sinners, and condemned by God. 3:10-11
Whoever is a friend of the world is an enemy of God. 4:4
Things may get rough for Christians, but it will really be hell for nonbelievers. 4:17-18
The basic message of Christianity is "believe or be damned" and from this flows intolerance toward all non-Christians. But, as these verses show, Christian intolerance is often directed toward believers as well. Each group of Christians accuses the others of being "false teachers" of "damnable heresies" who will soon be damned to hell. 2:1-3
"Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes" 2:6
God drowned everyone else on earth except for Noah and his family. 2:5, 3:6
God will set the entire earth on fire so that he can burn non-believers to death. 3:7
"Love not the world." 2:15
Whoever denies "that Jesus is the Christ" is a liar and an antichrist. If so, then there are about five billion antichrists now living. 2:22
Christians are alive; non-Christians are dead. 5:12
Christians are "of God;" everyone else is wicked. 5:19
Non-Christians are deceivers and antichrists. 7
"Whosoever ... abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God." 9
Don't associate with non-Christians. Don't receive them into your house or even exchange greeting with them. This is the biblical justification for "Disfellowshipping" among the Jehovah's Witnesses. 10
"The Lord destroyed them that believed not." 5
False Jews are members of "the synagogue of Satan." 2:9
Those in Thyatira that obey God/Jesus until the end will rule everyone else with an iron rod. They'll even get to smash the others into pieces. He'll even throw in the morning star (the planet Venus?). 2:26-28>
God will make "the synagogue of Satan" [the Jews] "come and worship before thy feet." (Whose feet? Well, the feet of Christians, of course!) 3:9
The martyrs just can't wait until everyone else is slaughtered. God gives them a white robe and tells them to wait until he's done with his killing spree. 6:10-11
144,000 Jews will be going to heaven; everyone else is going to hell. 7:4
The angels are instructed not to "hurt the grass [how could they? He already had all the grass killed in 8:7] ... but only those men which have not the seal of God on their foreheads." God tells his angels not to kill them, but rather torment them with scorpions for five months. Those tormented will want to die, but God won't let them. 9:4-6
Only 144,000 celibate men will be saved. (Those who were not "defiled with women.") 14:1-4
Those who receive the mark of the beast will "drink of the wine of the wrath of God ... and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone ... and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever." 14:10-11
"There fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast." 16:2
Christians will fight in the war between Jesus and those allied with the beast. 17:14
Whoever isn't found listed in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire. 20:15
All liars, as well as those who are fearful or unbelieving, will be cast into "the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." 21:8
"Dogs [homosexuals?], sorcerers, whoremongers, idolaters" and along with anyone who ever told a lie will not enter the heavenly city. 22:15
At that time there were wicked men in Israel who persuaded the Israelites fo make peace with the Greek heathens. 1:12
When Mathathias saw a Jew sacrifice to idols on the altar, he killed him on the altar. 2:23-24
Mathathias also killed an officer of of King Antiochus. 2:25-26
He showed that his zeal was like that of Phinees [Phinehas]. 2:26
Mathathias and his friends gathered an army, and killed the sinners and wicked men. 2:44
Phinees [Phinehas] received the priesthood for being zealous. 2:54
Judas Maccabees ... pursued the wicked and burned whoever troubled his people. 3:5
He killed all the wicked people in Juda. 3:8
When Judas and his small army went to meet him, they said to him, "How are our few soldiers going to beat so large an army?" Judas said, "God is on our side, so the numbers don't matter. The Lord himself will overthrow them." 3:16
Judas slaughtered the descendants of Esau. 5:3
Judas slaughtered the descendants of Esau. And he burned to death the children of Bean in a tower.
And he burned to death the children of Bean in a tower. 5:4
He also killed Ammonites in many battles. 5:6
Simon defeated the heathens in Galilee. He killed 3000 and took their wives, children, and possessions. 5:21
Simon defeated the heathens in Galilee. He killed 3000 and took their wives, children, and possessions.
Judas and his army marched to Bosar, burned the city, and killed every male, and took their spoils. 5:28
Judas and his army marched to Bosar, burned the city, and killed every male, and took their spoils.
Judas did unto the city of Maspha as he did to Bosor -- burning it to the ground after kiling every male "with the edge of the sword." 5:35
Judas did unto the city of Maspha as he did to Bosor -- burning it to the ground after kiling every male "with the edge of the sword." And then he did likewise to "Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor, and the rest of the cities of Galaad."
Then he did likewise to "Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor, and the rest of the cities of Galaad." 5:36
The heathens threw down their weapons and ran into the temple. Then Judas burned the temple and the city.
The heathens threw down their weapons and ran into the temple. Then Judas burned the temple and the city.
Judas gathered the Israelites and came to the great city of Ephron. The residents closed the gates, and Judas said to them, "Let us pass through you land and no one will get hurt." But the citizens of Ephron wouldn't open their gates. So Judas commanded his soldiers to attack Ephron, kill every male, and then burn it. And his army killed every male, in the city, took all the spoils, and then burned it.
When Joseph and Azarias heard about the Maccabees brothers' killings, they said, "Let's become famous by killing some of our Gentile neighbors."
Joseph and Azarias went go Jamnia to fight Gorgias and his men. About 2000 of their soldiers died, because Joseph and Azarias didn't hearken to Judas, and "were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was brought to Israel."
Judas and his brethren attacked the children of Esau, and burned walls and towers in Chebron. They went on to Samaria and Azotus in the land of the strangers, where they destroyed their altars, butned their statues, and took the spoils of their cities.
Judas saw what Alcimus had done to the Israelites, and took revenge on the men who deserted. 7:23-24
The priests went to the temple and said while weeping, "Remember their blasphemies and kill Nicanor and his army." 7:36-38
here was peace in Israel. And Jonathan killed all the wicked people who lived there.
Jonathan killed 3000 aliens in one day.
Jason asked King Antiochus to build a place for exercise and for young people in Jerusalem. The king granted Jason's request, and the people began to live like heathens.
Thus the wicked and abominable Jason made the people more heathen-like by adopting foreign customs and manners.Â
Antiochus commanded Andronicus to be stripped of his purple clothes and led about through the city. Then he had the sacrilegious wretch killed, God delivered him his deserved punishment.
These things happened to us to correct us as a nation. We are being punished for our sins.
And they burned Callisthenes, as he deserved for his impieties.
Judas Machabeus threw down the altars and temples that the heathens had set up.
When Judas and the others heard their blasphemies, they set fire to the towers and burned the blasphemers alive.
The people of Casphin provoked Judas by blaspheming. So Judas took the city with by God's will, and made an unspeakable slaughter of its inhabitants, so that a pool two furlongs wide formed from the blood of the victims.
Judas killed 30,000 men for their profanities.
Then Judas collected the bodies of his soldiers who had died in battle, Â and he found the tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which if forbidden to the Jews. And so they plainly saw that this was the reason they had died in battle.
Judas told his soldiers not to sin, or they would be killed like the idol-wearing soldiers.
God inspired Antiochus to put Menelaus to death by throwing him off a 50-cubit high tower. So that's what they did. And he deserved it for offending God.
Alcimus, who had been a chief priest, defiled himself by associating with heathens.
Judas prayed to God, saying, "Once you sent an angel who killed 185,000 soldiers in Sennacherib's army. Send that angel again for us now. So that the blasphemers will be afraid of us."
The king gave Bel to Daniel, who destroyed him and his temple.
Wisdom is an abomination to sinners. 1:26
Woe to them that don't believe in God. 2:15
God's wrath is quick upon sinners. 5:7
The vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms. 7:19
Those who murmured against the Lord were punished by serpents. 8:24-25
Judith prayed to God, saying: Oh God of my father Simeon, who gave him a sword to kill strangers for uncovering a virgin, and who gave them their wives and daughters as prey, treat the Assyrians like you treated the Egyptians, by drowning them all. 9:1-8
Help me hate and kill them. And let their deaths be a monument to your name - when they are killed by a woman. 9:14-15
When king Sennacherib came back from Judea after God slaughtered his people for his blasphemy, Tobias buried the dead Israelite bodies. 1:21
There will be an inquisition into the thoughts of the ungodly, and they shall be chastised for their iniquities. 1:9
The brood of the wicked won't thrive, and bastard seedlings won't take root.
God chastises people little by little, so they will quit being wicked and believe in him.
You hated the original inhabitants of the holy land, because they murdered their own children and ate human blood and entrails. You wanted the Israelites to slaughter them for sacrificing their children.
You sent wasps to kill them little by little.
You were able to kill them through war, cruel beasts, or with your own word you could kill them at once.
They were a wicked generation by their very natures, and could never have been changed.
They and their children were cursed from the beginning, and you never forgave any of them for their sins.
Who can say to you, "What have you done?" Who can complain after you have killed them all? By doing such things, you teach your people to be just and humane.
The enemies of your servants deserve to die.
You have greatly tormented thso who have lived foolishly and unjustly, bythe same things that they worshiped.
You sent judgment upon them like they were senseless children to mock them. They were killed because they didn't believe in you.
Those who don't know God are foolish. They worship nature as god. But God is more beautiful and powerful than anything in nature.
There is no excuse for not believing in God.
If they know so much about the world, how could they not know about God?
Idols are cursed, as are those who make them.
God will torment both the idol and the idol maker.
But what about those who don't believe but do good works? Are they the "lowest of the low"? 95:4-6
Don't fight against any church, except for the church of the devil.
Although the modern LDS church tries to deny it, "the church of the devil" was always understood my Mormons to be the Catholic Church. (See 1 Nephi 13 for what the Book of Mormon has to say about "the church of the devil".) 18:20
Things were good between me [Jesus] and James Covel. He said he'd obey me.
But Satan tempted him and he rejected the word. So he broke our agreement.
Now I have to decide what to do to him. Amen. 1-3
Some people are born with with divine properties. And some are born with demoniac properties.
Demonical men say, "The universe is without a God."
These ruined souls of low understanding and fierce deeds are enemies who seek to destroy the world. They have insatiable desires, and are filled with vanity, conceit, and arrogance, with evil and delusional ideas. They only seek to gratify their desires, and their thoughts end in death. They are consumed by lust and anger. They fall downwards into a foul hell. Proud, stubborn, self-glorifying, and intoxicated with wealth, they show off their sacrifices, contrary to the laws of scripture. Through egoism, power, insolence, lust, and wrath, they hate me [Krishna] in bodies of others and their own. When these vile, evil, haters die, I cast them into demonical wombs, where they are deluded after birth, and sink into the lowest depths of hell.
They have insatiable desires, and are filled with vanity, conceit, and arrogance, with evil and delusional ideas.
They only seek to gratify their desires, and their thoughts end in death.
They are consumed by lust and anger.
They fall downwards into a foul hell.
Proud, stubborn, self-glorifying, and intoxicated with wealth, they show off their sacrifices, contrary to the laws of scripture.
Through egoism, power, insolence, lust, and wrath, they hate me [Krishna] in bodies of others and their own.
When these vile, evil, haters die, I cast them into demonical wombs, where they are deluded after birth, and sink into the lowest depths of hell.
If you think about me, you'll overcome all obstacles. If you don't, you'll be destroyed.
But if you tell this secret to my devotees, I [Krishna] will love you more than anyone else on earth.
