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Drunk with Blood: God's Killings in The Apocrypha

The books in the Apocrypha (aka Deuterocanonical books) add another twenty killings to God's list. The first three involve beautiful women: Susanna and Judith. The rest are told in the books of the Machabees.

The story of Susanna includes what is arguably the only justified killing in the Bible. The bad guys were guilty and deserved to be punished, though the trial seemed less than fair and the punishment a bit excessive.

The book of Judith confirms what we already knew from the story of Jael in Judges: it is a most blessed thing for a woman to kill a man while he sleeps.

1 and 2 Machabees present a series of 17 God-assisted killings, any one of which, if true, would clearly show that God, whatever else he might be, is not good.

Here are the killings in the Apocrypha.

Oh! Susanna
Judith is blessed among all women (for cutting off a sleeping man's head)
The Judith massacre: hang ye up this head upon our walls
Mathathias's double murder
Mathathias and his friends slay the wicked sinners, circumcise the the uncircumcised, and yield not the horn to the sinner
God killed Andronichus (that sacrilegious wretch)
A Jewish mob kills Lysimachus, the sacrilegious fellow
God helps Judas Machabeus destroy the wicked
Judas and his unarmed men kill 3000 of Gorgias's soldiers
The Hanukkah killings
The Machabees brothers slaughter the heathens
Nicanor's Army: The Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men
Jonathan and Simon destroy the wicked out of Israel
Five heavenly horsemen cast darts and fireballs at the enemy
God killed Antiochus with an incurable bowel disease
Idumeans, traitors, and Jews in two towers
Nicanor's head: A manifest sign of the help of God
Aliens at Cades
John burns to death 2000 in the tower of Azotus
God sent wasps to slowly kill people

Drunk with Blood: God's Killings in The Apocrypha

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