My question is this: Why does it surprise us when those who say they are "god"s messengers whip out guns and start shooting?
The following is a list of murders ordered or carried out by "god" in the old testament. I found this on several websites but I am not sure it is a complete listing....
- All men, women & children on earth except for Noah's immediate family(Genesis 7:23)
- All inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah except a single family, (and he turned one of the spared family into a pillar of salt...) (Genesis 19:24)
- The first born of Egypt (Exodus 12:29)
- The hosts of the Pharaoh, including 600 chariot-captains (Exodus 14:27,28)
- Amalek & all his people (Exodus 17:11,16)
- 3,000 Israelites (Exodus 32:27)
- 250 Levite princes who'd challenged Moses (Numbers 16:1-40)
- 14,700 Jews killed with a plague (they'd rebelled against Moses following the killing of the princes) (Numbers 16:41-49)
- All subjects of Og (Numbers 21:34, 35)
- 24,000 Israelites who'd shacked up with Moabite women (Numbers 25:4, 9)
- All males, kings, and non-virgin females of the Midianites (Numbers 31:7, 8)
- The Ammonites (Deuteronomy 2:19-21)
- The Horims (Deuteronomy 2:22)
- All inhabitants of Jericho, except for a prostitute and her family (Joshua 6)
- 12,000 residents of Ai. Joshua hung the king on a tree. (Joshua 8:1-30)
- The population of Makkedah (Joshua 10:28)
- The people of Libnah (Joshua 10:29, 30)
- All inhabitants of Gezer (Joshua 10:33)
- All of Lachish (Joshua 10:32)
- The entire people of Eglon (Joshua 10:34, 35)
- The population of Hebron (Joshua 10:36, 37)
- All inhabitants of the "country of the hills", and (of course there's more), of the south, and the vale, and of the springs and all their kings (Joshua 10:40)
- 31 kings and inhabitants of their countries, and south country, and the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, & the valley of the same from Mt. Halak to Mt. Hermon (Joshua 11:12, 16, 17, 12:24)
- 10,000 Moabites (Judges 3:29)
- 10,000 Perizzites and Canaanites (Judges 1:4)
- 600 Phillistines (Judges 3:31)
- All from Sisera (Judges 4:16)
- 120,000 Midianites (Judges 8:10)
- 25,100 Benjaminites (Judges 20:35)
- 50,070 from Bethshemesh (I Samuel 6:19)
- The Amalekites (I Samuel 15:3, 7)
- The armies & the 5 kings of the Amorites (Amos 3:2)
- The Moabites, plus 22,000 Syrians (II Samuel 8:2, 5, 6, 14)
- 40,000 Syrian horsemen (II Samuel 10:18)
- 100,000 Syrian footmen, plus by 27,000 who are all crushed by a wall (I Kings 20:28, 29, 30)
- 42 children, (god sends a bear to eat them)(II Kings 2:23, 24)
- 185,000 Assyrians killed by an angel (II Kings 19:35)
- 10,000 Edomites, followed by 10,000 more whose killers threw them from a rock so they were broken in pieces (II Chronicles 28)
- 120,000 Judeans (II Chronicles 28)
- 75,000 Persians (Esther 9:16)
