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With the exception of genocide (the great flood), God didn't really do the killing, God was smart and forced others to kill for God. God had the bears come and kill the children for making fun of a bald man, now just how insane is that. So let that be an example to all children, you laugh at a bald man and you'll get eaten by bears.
Read the story again Terryj, they were not children. And it was not so much the fact that the man was bald. In reality they were mocking God.
God gives life and God takes life. And God has the right to do that. However mockers who like to accuse God of murder will never understand that. And until they can create a universe themselves, I would suggest they hold up on accusing God.
What proof is there that God created the universe?
With the exception of genocide (the great flood), God didn't really do the killing, God was smart and forced others to kill for God. God had the bears come and kill the children for making fun of a bald man, now just how insane is that. So let that be an example to all children, you laugh at a bald man and you'll get eaten by bears.
It sounds like the people at the time used God as an excuse to kill anyone who threatened their way of living. Same old ***** as today.
Reading Exodus 31:15-18, it struck me as odd that God instructed everyone to obey the 10 commandments while, at the same time, he wanted those who worked on the sabbath to be put to death. Which got me thinking about all the killing God did and ordered others to do. Is God above the Thou Shall Not Kill? Why wouldn't he want to follow his own commandments?
Other than your mistake of substituting "murder" (which is how the Commandment is worded) for "kill" (which is what a lot of people do apparently automatically), where is there a specific incident of God not keeping any of the Commandments?
Read the story again Terryj, they were not children. And it was not so much the fact that the man was bald. In reality they were mocking God.
Is the King James version wrong?
23And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
23And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
Here's a footnote I found on Bible Gateway:
2 Kings 2:23 This incident has long been misunderstood because the Hebrew word "naar" was translated "little boys." That these characteristic juvenile delinquents were old enough to be fully accountable is obvious from the use of the word elsewhere. For example, it was used by David of his son Solomon and translated "young and inexperienced," when Solomon was a father (I Chron. 22:5; cf. I Kings 14:21 and II Chron. 9:30 ). It was used of Joseph when he was seventeen (Gen. 37:2). In fact, not less than seventy times in the King James Version this word "naar" is translated "young man" or "young men."
Other than your mistake of substituting "murder" (which is how the Commandment is worded) for "kill" (which is what a lot of people do apparently automatically), where is there a specific incident of God not keeping any of the Commandments?
2 Samuel 24: 14,15
God MURDERS 70,000 INNOCENT Israelites for David's heinous sin of taking an illegal census.
2 Samuel 12:13,14
God MURDERS David's INNOCENT son for David and Bathsheba's sin.
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Make up your mind! 
