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All Bible quotes are from the Douay-Catholic Bible

This is but one of a full page of curses God threatened if the Jews did not hearken to the voice of the Lord, their God.

This is tough punishment for a man who disobeys God. Does the woman have nothing to say? Obviously not. Jephte's daughter didn't.

And now a story from the Bible that made me want to scream and throw things in frustration. It seems a man named Jephte was led by Gods spirit to go to war against the Ammonites. Before he approached the Ammonites, Jephte made a vow to the Lord.

Jepthe turned out to be a great warrior, taking twenty Ammonite cities which made thousands of people subjects of Israel. When he returned home in triumph, it was his only child, a daughter, that came out,

He killed his only child, but it was important enough to the writer to mention again that, She had not been intimate with man. He killed his only child, but she was a virgin! SO WHAT! Now if you don't remember, let's open the dictionary again for the meaning of holocaust.
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He burned his daughter to ashes! What did he tell her before he cut her throat? Now honey, this is going to hurt a little? God stopped Abraham from burning Isaac. He told the Jews,

But just this once you can sacrifice a little girl to Me. Why did He let this imbecile father burn his virgin daughter to ashes?

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Another horror story starts with a Jewish man that took his servant, and went hunting his run away concubine. On the way home he passed by one town he could have stayed in, and traveled on to stay the night in a town of Israelites. The man, his servant, and his concubine were in the square, when an old man offered to take them to his house for the night

Concubine is a very old word. Let's pull out the dictionary again.
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When his own people threatened him, this man threw his mistress to the wolves, then took her body home to cut in twelve pieces and send them throughout the territory of Israel. He lied about why she died, to raise sentiment against the Benjaminite city of Gabaa. When the accusations had reached a fever pitch, both sides raised armies and the Israelites asked God who should go first.

Even though this battle was Jew against Jew, their God was a war God, and loving a good bloody battle, He told them Juda! When the Benjaminites killed twenty-two thousand Israelite soldiers, they wept before the Lord and asked if they should try again. He said they should. This time only eighteen thousand Israelites fell. Again
they cried, and again the Lord told them, ...

God decided to help Israel win, AFTER they lost 40,000 men!

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This time the Israelites lost thirty men drawing the Benjaminites into an ambush. Israel retaliated and killed 25,100 in one battle and 18,000 in another. Then chasing them down the highway killed another 2,000 men.

157,130 warriors, as well as several cities inhabitants, ( probably at least three cities ) and their livestock died with God pushing them to the fight amongst themselves. 12,000 per city = 36,000. Add 157,130 warriors, you have about 193,130 dead men, women, and children. These were Jews killing Jews. One
would think that an all knowing, all seeing God, would know the whole thing started over a lie about a dead concubine and put a stop to it. Was He an all knowing and all seeing God, or was He just a man that could be lied to, and loved the excitement of war?

After the blood bath, Israel felt sorry for the survivors because they had no women. Then they got a bright idea. They had threatened to put to death without fail, any of their own that did not join in the blood bath. They looked around and found not one soldier from Jabes-Galaad. So the order was given to wipe out another Jewish city, except of course, the virgins.

Each virgin had a mother, (400) father, ( 400 ) and at least two brothers or sisters. ( 800 ) 1,600 died.

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Now, since they came up a little short on the virgin count, they had to devise another plan. After all, there were plenty of virgins around, so why make a surviving warrior do without?

After a gutless liar started a war that slaughtered over 157,130 warriors, the winners of the massacre felt sorry for the surviving losers. So they slaughtered another city full of people saving 400 virgins so the men of the tribe of Benjamin would have wives. 400 wasn't enough so they told the Benjaminites where they could kidnap enough virgins to supply the rest of the survivors. The next story is about a man who had not one, but two wives.

Once there was a man named Elcana.

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If a woman did not produce children she was afflicted, troubled, and upbraided by her rival. But God did not hear her pleas for a child until she promised to,

THEN the Lord remembered her, and gave her a son? But God didn't have to remember King David. He took matters into his own hands, and had many sons.

It is interesting to me that David took both concubines AND wives. Did he marry the pretty ones and make concubines out of the rest? But with all the wives and concubines he had, it wasn't enough. He walked on the roof one day and saw a woman taking a bath. He found out who she was and slept with her. When she told
him she had conceived, he ordered her husband to the front lines so he would be killed in battle. When the pregnant woman heard her husband was dead, she mourned for him, then became King David's wife and bore him a son.

So God dealt with David.

But then God forgave David except for one small detail.

No devout religious person would question this, but I will. Was it necessary for God to kill an innocent child for the sin of the father? Was there no other way to teach David a lesson? No, the child had to die!

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After the child died, it became obvious that David really was forgiven.

After David had been punished, God condoned his marriage to the wife of a man he
had killed, and the next child of the marriage, and loved the child.

Too many wives, concubines, and girlfriends in his younger days may have caused him to lose interest. However, I noted in this passage that there was no formal changing of title for the young woman. Was she a wife, a concubine, or just a female friend. God threw a fit and killed an innocent child when David played around with a married woman. Did God just say, "Oh well, what does it matter at his age?" and look the other way? He couldn't look the other way when David's son Solomon followed in his fathers foot steps, because Solomon made sure he loved them all!

King Solomon was a lover of a magnitude far beyond his fathers imagination. He was involved with the Pharaoh's daughter. He also loved the women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and the daughters of the Hethites. But God had given orders:

Solomon had hundreds, maybe thousands of children, so he wouldn't have missed a few. But although King Achab didn't have so many, he would still give them away!

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The king of Syria besieged Samaria, and demanded, ...

And what did the king of Israel say? Good ole Achab said, ...

What was he going to tell his wives and children? Gee, I"m sorry I"m gutless, but you"ll probably be better off with your new king? But a prophet told Achab how to win the battle against the Syrians, so he lived to covet land belonging to his neighbor.

It seems King Achab wanted a vineyard next to his palace for an herb garden, but the owner, Naboth, wouldn't sell. When the king came in depressed over his lack of success with the neighbor, his wife Jezabel said,

She wrote letters to the ancients and the chief men of the city and had them claim Naboth blasphemed God and the king, then stone him. King Achab gained possession of the vineyard, but is told by Elias that he will pay the price with his blood. When Achab humbled himself, God said,

King Achab also paid the price with a battle arrow between his lungs and stomach. And Jezabel died violently for her part in the murder. And Jehu said to them:

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Most of the women in the Old Testament never knew the power Jezabel held, if only for a moment. They were nothing more than tools, pawns, or sex objects. Tools to do the work, pawns to offer as virgins if you were afraid of the men of the town, but most important to man and his God, they produced children. Some men had one or a few, some men had many, and kings had up to seven hundred
wives and concubines.

It must have been important for them all to be pregnant most of the time. In fact it was so important that other women were given to Abraham, and Jacob, so Sara, and Rachel, could say they had children. When Lia knew she had stopped bearing, she also gave Jacob another woman. Occasionally a woman would break the mold and get the upper hand, but very few. Sara, Thamar, and the daughters of Lot, took matters into their own hands and changed their world to suit themselves. Sara browbeat Abraham, Thamar fooled her intended husband's father, and the daughters of Lot got their father drunk. Most women were beat, raped, sold, ignored, mistreated, run out of camp, and left out of the temple leadership, as
well as day to day decisions. A very few overcame all this, but they all had to go over, or around some man in their lives to do it.


FLIGHT
Flying for me, as for many others, was always a spectator sport. I didn't have the money to fly, but I learned to enjoy watching, building models, and day dreaming about flight. Then, because I loved to listen to air traffic, I became aware of and joined the Civil Air Patrol. Suddenly part of my new avocation included flying! No,
I"m still not a pilot. But I listened, and learned, and enjoyed. I did take a pinch hitters course to learn to get an airplane back on the ground in one piece in an emergency.

One night while I was burning the midnight oil, researching the Old Testament, I came across a passage I had not seen or heard before. I was stunned! Because to this point, I had read the Bible like a history book, I knew I had to believe what I was looking at. The Bible was telling me God flew! Once again I thought, "No one
is going to believe that." But as with all other subjects in this book, I opened a new file called, "Flight" and continued on. References to flight in the Bible are not as numerous as references to, "God's Anger" or, "God's Army" or, "Oblations" but they are there. The Bible says God, ...FLEW: AND SLID UPON THE WINGS OF
THE WIND. But I"m getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

Above the earth...below the firmament: the whole phrase is equivalent to "in the air," for which the Old Testament of the Bible has no special expression.

Let your imagination run free with the next passage.

To a group of people that had no word for sky, and had never seen anything but
clouds and birds in it, the concept of flight propelled by fire was beyond their imagination. God had to be above the mountain, to come down upon it in fire. Did He just levitate Himself by magic, or did he fly above the mountain and use the power of fire to come down? I don't believe in magic.

How did He do this? I won't venture a guess. But the fact still remains, God was above the earth doing what we do today, flying.

The Israelites also did not have a word for what we refer to as sky. They called flying, riding on the clouds.

Today, thousands of humans ride on the clouds every day. Would the Israelites, in their honest ignorance, have described a 747 as a cloud?