The act of murder is rampant in the Bible, so for Muslims and the rest
I love God but how do I get around all that he murders, I truly don't want to have anything to do with a murdering God and using logic for me doesn't answer it ether.
thanks
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.
There are also countless examples of mass murders commanded by God, including the murder of women, infants, and children.
God drowns everyone on earth (except Noah and his family)
Genesis 7:23,
BT 30,000,000
? 30,000,000 God rains fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, killing everyone.
Gen.19:24,
BT 1000
? 30,001,000 Lot's wife for looking back
Gen.19:26,
BT 1 30,001,001 Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord"
Gen.38:7,
1 Chr.2:3,
BT 1 30,001,002 Onan for spilling his seed
Gen.38:10,
BT 1 30,001,003 7th Egyptian Plague: Hail
Exodus 9:25,
BT 30,000
? 30,031,003 God kills every Egyptian firstborn child.
Ex.12:29-30,
BT 500,000
? 30,531,003 God drowns Egyptian army
Ex.14:28,
BT 1000
? 30,532,003 God and Moses help Joshua kill the Amalekites
Ex.17:13,
BT 1000
? 30,533,003 For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf
Ex.32:27-28, 35,
BT 3000 30,536,003 Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord
Lev.10:1-3,
Num.3:4,
26:61,
BT 2 30,536,005 A blasphemer
Lev.24:10-23,
BT 1 30,536,006 God burned to death an unknown number for complaining
Numbers 11:1,
BT 100
? 30,536,106 God sent "a very great plague" for complaining about the food.
Num.11:33,
BT 10,000
? 30,546,106 God killed those who murmured with a plague.
Num.14:35-36,
BT 100
? 30,546,206 A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath
Num.15:32-36,
BT 1 30,546,207 Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families)
Num.16:27,
BT 12+ 30,546,219 Burned to death for offering incense
Num.16:35,
26:10,
BT 250 30,546,469 For complaining
Num.16:49,
BT 14,700 30,561,169 Massacre of the Aradites
Num.21:1-3,
BT 3000
? 30,564,169 For complaining about the lack of food and water, God sent fiery serpents to bite the people, and many of them died.
Num.21:6,
BT 100
? 30,564,269 God delivers the Bashanites into Moses' hands and Moses kills everyone "until there was none left alive."
Num.21:34-35,
BT 1000
? 30,565,269 For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab"
Num.25:9,
BT 24,000 30,589,269 Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive)
Num.31:1-35,
BT 90,000+ 30,679,269 The slaughter of the Anakim, the childen of Esau, and the Horim
Deuteronomy 2:21-22 5000
? 30,684,269 God hardened the king of Heshbon's heart so that the Israelites could massacre his people. (included several cities)
Dt.2:33-34,
BT 3000
? 30,687,269 God delievered the king of Bashan so that the Israelites could massacre his people.
Dt.3:3-6 60,000
? 30,747,269 Massacre of Jericho
Joshua 6:21,
BT 1000
? 30,748,269 God tells Joshua to stone to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing.
Joshua 7:10-12,
24-26,
BT 5+ 30,748,274 God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone).
Joshua 8:1-25,
BT 12,000 30,760,274 God slaughters the Amorites and even chases them "along the way" as they try to escape.
Joshua 10:10-11,
BT 1000
? 30,761,274 Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees
Joshua 10:24-26,
BT 5 30,761,279 Massacre of 7 cities
Joshua 10:28-42,
BT 7000
? 30,768,279 God delivers the Hazorites.
Joshua 11:8-12,
BT 1000
? 30,769,279 Massacre of the Anakim
Joshua 11:20-21,
BT 1000
? 30,770,279 God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites
Judges 1:4,
BT 10,000 30,780,279 Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly
Jg.3:15-22,
BT 1 30,780,280 God delivered Moabites
Jg.3:28-29,
BT 10,000 30,790,280 Massacre of the Canaanites
Jg.4:15,
BT 1000
? 30,791,280 God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other.
Jg.7:2-22,
8:10,
BT 120,000 30,911,280 God delivered the Ammonites to Jephthah to slaughter.
Jg.11:32-33,
BT 1000
? 30,912,280 The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson
Jg.14:19,
BT 30 30,912,310 The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson
Jg.15:14-15,
BT 1000 30,913,310 Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism
Jg.16:27-30,
BT 3000 30,916,310 "The Lord smote Benjamin"
Jg.20:35-37,
BT 25,100 30,941,410 More Benjamites
Jg.20:44-46 25,000 30,966,410 For looking into the ark of the Lord
1 Sam.6:19,
BT 50,070 31,016,480 God delivered Philistines
1 Sam.14:12,
BT 20 31,016,500 God forces the Philistine soldiers to kill each other.
1 Sam.14:20,
BT 1000
? 31,017,500 God orders Saul to kill every Amalekite man, women, and child.
1 Sam.15:2-3,
BT 1000
? 31,018,500 Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death
1 Sam.15:32-33,
BT 1 31,018,501 God delivers the Philistines.
1 Sam.23:2-5 1000
? 31,019,501 "The Lord smote Nabal."
1 Sam.25:38 1 31,019,502 God delivers the Philistines to David (again).
2 Sam.5:19, 25 1000
? 31,020,502 Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling
2 Sam.6:6-7,
1 Chr.13:9-10 1 31,020,503 David and Bathsheba's baby boy
2 Samuel 12:14-18 1 31,020,504 God sent a three-year famine because of something Saul did.
2 Sam.21:1 5000
? 31,025,504 Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord
2 Sam.21:6-9 7 31,025,511 From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and children)
2 Sam.24:13,
1 Chr.21:7 70,000+ 31,095,511 A prophet for believing another prophet's lie
1 Kg.13:1-24 1 31,095,512 Baasha killed everyone in the house of Jeroboam "according to the saying of the Lord."
1 Kings 15:29 1000
? 31,096,512 Zimri killed everyone in the house of Baasha "according to the word of the Lord."
1 Kg.16:11-12 1000
? 31,097,512 Religious leaders killed in a prayer contest
1 Kg.18:22-40 450 31,097,962 God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands
1 Kg.20:28-29 100,000 31,197,962 God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers
1 Kg.20:30 27,000 31,224,962 God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet
1 Kg.20:35-36 1 31,224,963 Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god.
2 Kings 1:2-4, 17,
2 Chr.22:7-9 1 31,224,964 Burned to death by God
2 Kg.1:9-12 102 31,225,066 God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head
2 Kg.2:23-24 42 31,225,108 Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah
2 Kg.7:17-20 1 31,225,109 God calls for a seven year famine.
2 Kg.8:1 10,000
? 31,235,109 Jezebel
2 Kg.9:33-37 1 31,235,110 Jehu killed "all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria ... according to the saying of the Lord"
2 Kg.10:16-17 100
? 31,235,210 God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners
2 Kg.17:25-26 3+ 31,235,213 Sleeping Assyrian soldiers
2 Kg.19:35,
2 Chr.32:21,
Is.37:36 185,000 31,420,213 Saul
1 Chronicles 10:14 1 31,420,214 God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah
2 Chronicles 13:15-17 500,000 31,920,214 Jeroboam
2 Chr.13:20 1 31,920,215 "The Lord smote the Ethiopians."
2 Chr.14:9-14 1,000,000 32,920,215 God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out
2 Chr.21:14-19 1 32,920,216 Judean soldiers because they had forsaken the Lord
2 Chr.28:6 120,000 33,040,216 God delivered the Israelites into the hand of the Chaldeans.
2 Chr.36:16-17 1000
? 33,041,216 Ezekiel's wife
Ezekiel 24:15-18 1 33,041,217 Ananias and Sapphira
Acts 5:1-10 2 33,041,219 Herod
Acts 12:23,
BT 1 33,041,220
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