0 Why did God kill Er?

God ... struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others. 2 Machabees 9:5

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Why did God kill Er?


For being wicked in the sight of the Lord

And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. Genesis 38:7

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