Why Is Murder Supported in the Bible ?

Faith Versus Reason: Why Is Murder Supported in the Bible ?

The act of murder is rampant in the Bible. In much of the Bible, especially the

Old Testament, there are laws that command that people be killed for absurd

reasons such as working on the Sabbath, being gay, cursing your parents, or not

being a virgin on your wedding night. In addition to these crazy and immoral

laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing

of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing

children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep

the ark of God from falling during transport. There are also countless examples

of mass murders commanded by God, including the murder of women, infants, and

children.

The following passages are a very small percentage of the total passages

approving of murder in the Bible. They are divided here into three parts: 1)

Capital Punishment Crimes, 2) God's Murders for Stupid Reasons, 3) Murdering

Children, and 4) Miscellaneous Murders. This list is long, but it barely

scratches the surface of all the murders approved of in the Bible.

The bible and the God it posits are clearly archaic and barbaric beyond any standard

of decency.

1) Capital Punishment Crimes:

Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests

Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who

represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged

from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

Kill Witches

You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)

Kill Homosexuals

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death

for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13

NAB)

Kill Fortunetellers

A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by

stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus

20:27 NAB)

Death for Hitting Dad

Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)

Death for Cursing Parents

1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of

darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)

2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty

of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)

Death for Adultery

If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman

must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)

Death for Fornication

A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby

dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)

Death to Followers of Other Religions

Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus

22:19 NAB)

Kill Nonbelievers

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with

all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of

Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

(2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)

Kill False Prophets

If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him,

"You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord."

When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through.

(Zechariah 13:3 NAB)

Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some

worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging

them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts

carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has

occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its

inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder

in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a

burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it

may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for

destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to

you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he

solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if

you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is

pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night

But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and

evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the

entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death,

because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's

house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21

NAB)

Kill Followers of Other Religions.

1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or

you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your

fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away,

from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him,

nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand

shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with

you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from

the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of

slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as

this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)

Death for Blasphemy

One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got into a

fight with one of the Israelite men. During the fight, this son of an Israelite

woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment.

His mother's name was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of

Dan. They put the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should

become clear. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the

camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let

the entire community stone him to death. Say to the people of Israel: Those who

blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be punished.

Anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be stoned to death by the whole

community of Israel. Any Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the

LORD's name will surely die. (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)

Kill False Prophets

1) Suppose there are prophets among you, or those who have dreams about the

future, and they promise you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs or

miracles take place. If the prophets then say, 'Come, let us worship the gods

of foreign nations,' do not listen to them. The LORD your God is testing you to

see if you love him with all your heart and soul. Serve only the LORD your God

and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him.

The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death,

for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of

slavery in the land of Egypt. Since they try to keep you from following the

LORD your God, you must execute them to remove the evil from among you.

(Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT)

Infidels and Gays Should Die

So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired.

As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.

Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately

chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the

Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen. That is why God abandoned

them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way

to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead

of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each

other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within

themselves the penalty they so richly deserved. When they refused to

acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things

that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness,

sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and

gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful.

They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their

parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and

unforgiving. They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these

things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they

encourage others to do them, too. (Romans 1:24-32 NLT)

Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle

For the LORD had said to Moses, 'Exempt the tribe of Levi from the census; do

not include them when you count the rest of the Israelites. You must put the

Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the Covenant, along with its furnishings

and equipment. They must carry the Tabernacle and its equipment as you travel,

and they must care for it and camp around it. Whenever the Tabernacle is moved,

the Levites will take it down and set it up again. Anyone else who goes too

near the Tabernacle will be executed.' (Numbers 1:48-51 NLT)

Kill People for Working on the Sabbath

The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of

Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between

me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you

holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must

die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six

days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because

the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to

death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)

2) God's Murders for Stupid Reasons:

Kill Brats

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on his way, some small boys

came out of the city and jeered at him. "Go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up

baldhead!" The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of

the Lord. Then two shebears came out of the woods and tore forty two of the

children to pieces. (2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB)

God Kills the Curious

And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of

Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, `and' fifty thousand men; and the

people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy

God? and to whom shall he go up from us? (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)

Killed by a Lion

Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another

man, "Strike me!" But the man refused to strike the prophet. Then the prophet

told him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a lion will kill

you as soon as you leave me." And sure enough, when he had gone, a lion

attacked and killed him. (1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)

Killing the Good Samaritan

The ark of God was placed on a new cart and taken away from the house of

Abinadab on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab guided the cart, with

Ahio walking before it, while David and all the Israelites made merry before the

Lord with all their strength, with singing and with citharas, harps,

tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah reached out his hand to

the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen were making it tip. But the Lord was

angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died there before God. (2

Samuel 6:3-7 NAB)

3) Murdering Children

Kill Sons of Sinners

Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise

and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah

14:21 NAB)

God Will Kill Children

The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at

birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived. Even if your children

do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day

when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel become as beautiful

and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be

slaughtered." O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for

wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk. The LORD says, "All

their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them

from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because

all their leaders are rebels. The people of Israel are stricken. Their roots

are dried up; they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will

slaughter their beloved children." (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)

Kill Men, Women, and Children

"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and

kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill

them all ? old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch

anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began

by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill

its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout

the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)

Kill Old Men and Young Women

"You are my battle-ax and sword," says the LORD. "With you I will shatter

nations and destroy many kingdoms. With you I will shatter armies, destroying

the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer. With you I will shatter men

and women, old people and children, young men and maidens. With you I will

shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers. "As you

watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they

have done to my people in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look, O mighty mountain,

destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy," says the LORD. "I will raise my fist

against you, to roll you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be

nothing but a heap of rubble. You will be desolate forever. Even your stones

will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out," says

the LORD. (Jeremiah 51:20-26)

(Note that after God promises the Israelites a victory against Babylon, the

Israelites actually get their butts kicked by them in the next chapter. So

much for an all-knowing and all-powerful God.)

God Will Kill the Children of Sinners

If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you

with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will

kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and

your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)

More Rape and Baby Killing

Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children

will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and

their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against

Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking

armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on

helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18

NLT)

4) Miscellaneous Murders

More of Samson's Murders

(The Lord saves Sampson from standing trial for 30 murders and arson by allowing

him to kill 1000 more men.) When he reached Lehi, and the Philistines came

shouting to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came upon him: the ropes around his

arms become as flax that is consumed by fire and the bonds melted away from his

hands. Near him was the fresh jawbone of an ass; he reached out, grasped it,

and with it killed a thousand men. (Judges 15:14-15 NAB)

Peter Kills Two People

There was also a man named Ananias who, with his wife, Sapphira, sold some

property. He brought part of the money to the apostles, but he claimed it was

the full amount. His wife had agreed to this deception. Then Peter said,

"Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you

kept some of the money for yourself. The property was yours to sell or not

sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was yours to give away.

How could you do a thing like this? You weren't lying to us but to God." As

soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died. Everyone who

heard about it was terrified. Then some young men wrapped him in a sheet and

took him out and buried him. About three hours later his wife came in, not

knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, "Was this the price you and your

husband received for your land?" "Yes," she replied, "that was the price." And

Peter said, "How could the two of you even think of doing a thing like this ?

conspiring together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Just outside that door are

the young men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out, too."

Instantly, she fell to the floor and died. When the young men came in and saw

that she was dead, they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Great fear gripped the entire church and all others who heard what had happened.

(Acts 5:1-11 NLT)

Mass Murder

This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: 'I will punish what Amalek did to

Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go, now, attack

Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him,

but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.'

(1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)

You Have to Kill

Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his

sword from blood. (Jeremiah 48:10 NAB)

The Danites Kill the Next Town

But the territory of the Danites was too small for them; so the Danites marched

up and attacked Leshem, which they captured and put to the sword. Once they had

taken possession of Lesham, they renamed the settlement after their ancestor

Dan. (Joshua 19:47 NAB)

God Promises More Killing

I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and

any who return. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your

valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword.

I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you

will know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT)

The Angel of Death

My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,

Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out. (Exodus 23:23

NAB)

Destruction of Ai

Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the entire

army and attack Ai, for I have given to you the king of Ai, his people, his

city, and his land. You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its

king. But this time you may keep the captured goods and the cattle for

yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city." So Joshua and the army of Israel

set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand fighting men and sent them

out at night with these orders: "Hide in ambush close behind the city and be

ready for action. When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to

fight as they did before, and we will run away from them. We will let them

chase us until they have all left the city. For they will say, 'The Israelites

are running away from us as they did before.' Then you will jump up from your

ambush and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God will give it to

you. Set the city on fire, as the LORD has commanded. You have your orders."

So they left that night and lay in ambush between Bethel and the west side of

Ai. But Joshua remained among the people in the camp that night.

Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and started toward Ai, accompanied

by the leaders of Israel. They camped on the north side of Ai, with a valley

between them and the city. That night Joshua sent five thousand men to lie in

ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. So they stationed

the main army north of the city and the ambush west of the city. Joshua himself

spent that night in the valley. When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across

the valley, he and all his army hurriedly went out early the next morning and

attacked the Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley. But he didn't

realize there was an ambush behind the city. Joshua and the Israelite army fled

toward the wilderness as though they were badly beaten, and all the men in the

city were called out to chase after them. In this way, they were lured away

from the city. There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after

the Israelites, and the city was left wide open.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Point your spear toward Ai, for I will give you

the city." Joshua did as he was commanded. As soon as Joshua gave the signal,

the men in ambush jumped up and poured into the city. They quickly captured it

and set it on fire. When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the city

was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled

in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers. When Joshua

and the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was

rising from the city, they turned and attacked the men of Ai. Then the

Israelites who were inside the city came out and started killing the enemy from

the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died. Not a

single person survived or escaped. Only the king of Ai was taken alive and

brought to Joshua.

When the Israelite army finished killing all the men outside the city, they went

back and finished off everyone inside. So the entire population of Ai was wiped

out that day ? twelve thousand in all. For Joshua kept holding out his spear

until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed. Only the cattle

and the treasures of the city were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these

for themselves, as the LORD had commanded Joshua. So Ai became a permanent

mound of ruins, desolate to this very day. Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree

and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body

and threw it in front of the city gate. They piled a great heap of stones over

him that can still be seen today. (Joshua 8:1-29 NLT)

Killing at Jericho

When the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted as loud as they

could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged

straight into the city from every side and captured it. They completely

destroyed everything in it ? men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep,

donkeys ? everything. (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)

God Kills an Extended Family

"You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made other

gods and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned

your back on me, I will bring disaster on your dynasty and kill all your sons,

slave or free alike. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash

until it is all gone. I, the LORD, vow that the members of your family who die

in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten

by vultures.'" Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam's wife, "Go on home, and when you

enter the city, the child will die. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him.

He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this

child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the

entire family of Jeroboam. And the LORD will raise up a king over Israel who

will destroy the family of Jeroboam. This will happen today, even now! Then

the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will

uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and

will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD by

worshiping Asherah poles. He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and

made all of Israel sin along with him." (1 Kings 14:9-16 NLT)

Mass Murder

The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites, putting to

the sword the inhabitants of the city, the livestock, and all they chanced upon.

Moreover they destroyed by fire all the cities they came upon. (Judges 20:48

NAB)

Kill Your Neighbors

(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on

the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites came. He told

them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go

back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your

brothers, friends, and neighbors." The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three

thousand people died that day. Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have

been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it

meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you

a great blessing." (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)

Kill the Family of Sinners

And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of

Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what thou hast done, hide it

not from me. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against

the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. When I saw among the

spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a

wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them, and

behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under

it." [Note that the sin is not looting, but failing to give the loot to the

treasury of the Lord.] "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent,

and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. And they took them

from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children

of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. And Joshua, and all Israel with

him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge

of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his

sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of

Achor. And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee

this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire,

after they had stoned them with stones. And they raised over him a great heap

of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger:

wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to this day.

(Joshua 7:19-26 Webster's Bible)

Kill Followers of Other Religions

While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled themselves

by sleeping with the local Moabite women. These women invited them to attend

sacrifices to their gods, and soon the Israelites were feasting with them and

worshiping the gods of Moab. Before long Israel was joining in the worship of

Baal of Peor, causing the LORD's anger to blaze against his people. The LORD

issued the following command to Moses: "Seize all the ringleaders and execute

them before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from

the people of Israel." So Moses ordered Israel's judges to execute everyone who

had joined in worshiping Baal of Peor. Just then one of the Israelite men

brought a Midianite woman into the camp, right before the eyes of Moses and all

the people, as they were weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle. When

Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up

and left the assembly. Then he took a spear and rushed after the man into his

tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man's body and into the

woman's stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, but not

before 24,000 people had died. (Numbers 25:1-9 NLT)

Murder

At the customary time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet

walked up to the altar and prayed, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I

have done all this at your command. O LORD, answer me! Answer me so these

people will know that you, O LORD, are God and that you have brought them back

to yourself." Immediately the fire of the LORD flashed down from heaven and

burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up

all the water in the ditch! And when the people saw it, they fell on their

faces and cried out, "The LORD is God! The LORD is God!" Then Elijah

commanded, "Seize all the prophets of Baal. Don't let a single one escape!" So

the people seized them all, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and

killed them there. (1 Kings 18:36-40 NLT)

Kill All of Babylon

"Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of

Pekod. Yes, march against Babylon, the land of rebels, a land that I will judge!

Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you," says the

LORD. "Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction".

(Jeremiah 50:21-22 NLT)

Micah Kills a Whole Town

Then, with Micah's idols and his priest, the men of Dan came to the town of

Laish, whose people were peaceful and secure. They attacked and killed all the

people and burned the town to the ground. There was no one to rescue the

residents of the town, for they lived a great distance from Sidon and had no

allies nearby. This happened in the valley near Beth-rehob.Then the people of

the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town and lived there. They renamed the town Dan

after their ancestor, Israel's son, but it had originally been called Laish.

(Judges 18:27-29 NLT) (Note that God approves of this slaughter in verse 6.)

kwaku ba October 2010