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King Amasias obviously followed the book of the law of Moses. He had nothing else to learn from. And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king his father. But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, NEITHER SHALL THE CHILDREN BE PUT TO DEATH FOR THE FATHERS, but every man shall die for his own sins. (4 Kings 14:5) |
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Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out,"The Lord, The Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity, continuing his kindness and for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, BUT PUNISHING CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION FOR THEIR FATHERS" WICKEDNESS!" (Exodus 34:6) |
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One day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them. (Job 1:6) |
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During God's conversation with Satan, God pointed out Job as one of His best followers. And when Satan told God it was only because of all Job's God given possessions, God gave Job to Satan to do with as he pleased!
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A messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the asses grazing beside them, and the Sabeans carried them off in a raid. They put the herdsmen to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was yet speaking, another came and said, "Lightning has fallen from heaven and struck the sheep and their shepherds and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was yet speaking, another came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three columns, seized the camels, carried them off, and put those tending them to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was yet speaking, another came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, when suddenly a great wind came across the desert and smote the four corners of the house. It fell upon the young people and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you." (Job 1:14) |
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Once again the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. (Job 2:1) |
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But when, at a distance, they lifted up their eyes and did not recognize him, they began to weep aloud; they tore their cloaks and threw dust upon their heads. (Job 2:12) |
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In Ecclesiastes I found a passage that has become one of my favorites. To me it is real food for thought.
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What has been, what will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun. Even the thing which we say, "See, this is new!" has already existed in the ages that preceded us. There is no remembrance of the men of old; nor of those to come will there be any remembrance among those who come after them. (Ecclesiastes 1:9) |
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On the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob took their swords, advanced boldly against the city, and slew all the males, and sacked the city. They took its flocks, herds and asses. All its wealth, its women and its children they carried off; and they looted whatever was in the houses. (Genesis 34:2) |
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(Genesis 9:6) reads, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God man was made. But in Exodus, whether you dared shed blood depended on who you were. On one occasion, after Moses had grown up, when he visited his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor, he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen. Looking about and seeing no one, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. (Exodus 2:11) |
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At midnight the lord slew every first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh on the throne to the first born of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as the first born of the animals. Pharaoh arose in the night , he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead. (Exodus 12:29) |
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As the water flowed back, it covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh's whole army which had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not a single one of them escaped. (Exodus 14:28) |
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Greed, and a hunger for power, turned Abimelech, the son of Gedeon's concubine on his Jewish brothers.
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He then went to his ancestral house in Ephra, and slew his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerobbaal. Joatham escaped , for he was hidden. (Judges 9:5) |
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The SPIRIT OF THE LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon, where HE KILLED THIRTY OF THEIR MEN and despoiled them; he gave their garments to those who had answered the riddle. (Judges 14:19) |
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When the Philistines asked who had done this, they were told, "Samson the son-in-law of the Thamnaite, because his wife was taken and given to his best man." So the Philistines went up and destroyed her and her family by fire. (Judges 15:6) |
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And with repeated blows, he inflicted a great slaughter on them. Then he went down and remained in a cavern of the cliff of Etam. (Judges 15:8) |
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Killing was easy for Samson. In the next passage, ...
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the spirit of the Lord came upon him, to help him break free. Near him was the fresh jawbone of an donkey; He reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand men. Then Samson said, "With the jawbone of an donkey I have piled them in a heap; with the jawbone of an donkey I have slain a thousand men. (Judges 15:15) |
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Samson cried out to the Lord and said, "O Lord God, remember me! Strengthen me, O God, this last time that for my two eyes I may avenge myself once and for all on the Philistines." |
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"Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed hard, and the temple fell upon the lords and all the people who were in it. Those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his lifetime. (Judges 16:27) |
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and Samuel said: "As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel HEWED HIM TO PIECES BEFORE THE LORD in Galgal. (1 Kings 15:32) |
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And the king said to Doeg: "Turn thou and fall upon the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell upon the priests and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod. And Nobe the city of the priests he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children, and sucklings, and ox and donkey, and sheep with the edge of the sword. (1 Kings 22:18) |
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Again, I make sure the estimates I have to make are gross underestimates, so there is no room for argument with the total number.
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David pillaged the countries of Gessuri, Gerzi, Amalecites, the south of Juda, the south of Jerameel and against the south of Ceni. (1 Kings 27:8) |
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And David wasted all the land, AND LEFT NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN ALIVE; and took away the sheep and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel. And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying: "Lest they should speak against us." So did David, AND SUCH WAS HIS PROCEEDING ALL THE DAYS THAT HE DWELT IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILISTINES. (1 Kings 27:9) |
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And everyone catching his fellow by the head, thrust his sword into the side of his adversary, and they fell down together. (2 Kings 2:16) |
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Wherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the groin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot. (2 Kings 2:23) |
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But the servants of David had killed of Benjamine, and of the men that were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, all who died. (2 Kings 2:31) |
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And he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother. (2 Kings 3:27) |
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And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and Rechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away. (2 Kings 4:6) |
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...and the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the Hithite was killed also. (2 Kings 11:17) |
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So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom; (2 Kings 18:14) |
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But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and gave him not a second wound, and he died. (2 Kings 20:10) |
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So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely; and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. (2 Kings 20:22) |
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...and gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped. (2 Kings 21:9) |
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He also slew an Egyptian, a man worthy to be a sight, having a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a rod, and forced the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with his own spear. (2 Kings 23:21) |
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So Banaias the son of Joiada went up, and setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the desert. (3 Kings 2:34) |
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So the king commanded Banaias the son of Joiada; and he went out and struck him, and he died. (3 Kings 2:46) |
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And he went up thence to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord; and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of them two and forty boys. (4 Kings 2:23) |
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So the five men went on and came to Lias. They saw that the people dwelling there lived SECURELY after the manner of the Sidonians, QUIET AND TRUSTING, with no lack of any natural resources. (Judges 18:7) |