0 Why did God kill Onan?

And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. Revelation 14:16

Trivia: What will happen to anyone who hurts God's two witnesses (Rev 11)?

Why did God kill Onan?


For spilling his seed on the ground

And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. Genesis 38:9
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. Genesis 38:9

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