...the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house..."Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse with him." "No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Since this man is my guest, do not do this vile thing. Here are my virgin daughter and his concubine...Ravish them and do whatever you want to them, but against this man do not do such a vile thing." ...They wantonly raped her and abused her all through the night until the morning...
...not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there..."Go, put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword, including the women and the little ones...they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins...when the young women of Shiloh come out to dance...come out of the vineyards and...carry off a wife...and go to the land of Benjamin
Then the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men of the town, took their spoil, and gave the festal garments to those who had explained the riddle.
So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took some torches, and he turned the foxes tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. When he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves...So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father.
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and with dancing. Ruh Roh.
"Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. He said to her, "Stand at the entrance of the tent, and if anybody comes and asks you, 'Is anyone here?' say, 'No.' " But Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, until it went down into the ground—he was lying fast asleep from weariness—and he died.
As they fled before Israel, while they were going down the slope of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down huge stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.
Afterward Joshua struck them down and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening. At sunset Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves; they set large stones against the mouth of the cave that remain to this very day.
And the Lord said to Joshua, “...you shall hamstring their horses...” ...And Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
The following are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan...thirty-one kings in all.
Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, with the silver, the mantle, and the bar of gold, with his sons and daughters, with his oxen, donkeys, and sheep, and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor. Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord is bringing trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him to death; they burned them with fire, cast stones on them, and raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day.
When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with the edge of the sword. The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—all the people of Ai. For Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites a second time.” So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth. (Hill Of The Foreskins) Although all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people born on the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
The city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live because she hid the messengers we sent...Then they devoted to destruction by the edge of the sword all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.
No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall come into the assembly of the Lord.
But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. Indeed, you shall annihilate them...just as the Lord your God has commanded, so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods
When you go out to war against your enemies and the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take them captive, suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman whom you desire and want...bring her home to your house: she shall shave her head, pare her nails, discard her captive’s garb, and remain in your house a full month mourning for her father and mother; after that you may go in to her and be her husband...
If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place. They shall say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death.
The elders of that town shall take the man and punish him; they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver...he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives. If, however, ... (we even think she lied about her virginity) ...the men of her town shall stone her to death...
Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.
But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."
Moses did as the Lord had commanded; they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation. Moses stripped Aaron of his vestments and put them on his son Eleazar, and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain.
Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, "If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns." The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and handed over the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their towns...
So they killed him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left, and they took possession of his land.
The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food." Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households-everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods. So they with all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.
...your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness, and of all your number included in the census from twenty years old and up who have complained against me, not one of you shall come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun...your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness...in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die...
And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report about the land, the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the Lord. But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh alone remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land.
You shall eat...until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
Really, it's not enough to eat another human - you need to cannibalize your own children. Seriously, this is only a snippet of the threats he lays upon his people. This part should be required reading.
Nothing that a person owns that has been devoted to destruction for the Lord, be it human or animal or inherited landholding, may be sold or redeemed...No human beings who have been devoted to destruction can be ransomed; they shall be put to death.
One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Moses spoke thus to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
For those who do not humble themselves during that entire day shall be cut off from the people. And anyone who does any work during that entire day, such a one I will destroy from the midst of the people. You shall do no work.
You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
When Moses saw that the people were out of control...Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me! And all the sons of Levi gathered around him...Put your sword on your side, each of you! Go back...and each of you kill your brother, your friend, and your neighbor....and about three thousand of the people fell on that day. Moses said...brought a blessing on yourselves this day.
9-11 much, Moses? Infidels worshiping a different god? Let's recruit some fanatics and have them fly a plane into our neighbors, our friends, our brothers...
MOSES IS WORSE THAN GARBAGE.
Da fuq?
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock. Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.
No? OK. How about...
Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.
He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord met him and tried to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, touched his feet with it, and said, "Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!" So he let him alone.
We don't like our brother, Joseph. Let's kill him and throw him in a pit.
Chill. Chill. Chill. Let's sell him into slavery and tell Dad he was mauled and hauled off by some wild beast.
When some Midianite traders passed by they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.
Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife (
widow
) ... and knock her up.
Onan keeps hitting that but keeps pulling out.
god strikes him dead.
Judah saw her, he thought her a prostitute...Come, let me come into you.
3 months later, the scuttlebutt says his daughter-in-law is pregnant due to her whoredom.
"Bring her out, and let her be burned." Maury: Judah...you ARE the father!
Shechem rapes Dinah; his father offers peace to her family; EVERY male gets circumcised as part of the deal; while they're recovering from their surgery, two of Dinah's brothers kill EVERY adult male in the city; her other brothers plunder the homes and make the women and children their prey.
Another pair of sisters gets together to commit sex crimes. Rachel and Leah decide that their husband, Jacob, should use their "maids", Bilhah and Zilpah, in a birth-off.
Genesis 20:18: "For the lord had closed fast all the wombs..."
Genesis 29:31: "When the lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren."
Genesis 30:2 & 22: Jacob: "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" ... Then god remembered Rachel, and god heeded her and opened her womb.
"Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering..." It was a sick, depraved, twisted test of loyalty. Add psychological and emotional torture to the list.
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
Lot: "I beg you my brothers (actually, a mob of complete stranger, psycho, rapists), do not act so wickedly. Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men (two complete strangers that were spending the night), for they have come under the shelter of my roof." Bros before Hoes Marauders before Daughters, I guess.
Alright, this one may be excusable. I mean, apparently the price of admission to Sodom is a good, old-fashioned, rape. We don't hear much about Gomorrah, but if it was anything like Sodom, with not 5 righteous people to be found, maybe it was their comeuppance, as well. I'm a little confused as to why Lot was spared, with his Marauders Before Daughters mindset, but his wife was turned to a pillar of salt just for peeking at the destruction.
Some may say that turnabout is fair play. After all, Lot tried to throw these nameless daughters to marauding rapists not too long ago. Moab and Ammon are born of incestuous rape. This book doesn't go any lower, does it?!?
Then the lord said, My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.
And the lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth ... people together with animals ... for I am sorry that I have made them.
All but 8 humans and a couple of each animal were horrifically wiped out by drowning. The ultimate example of, I brought you into this world, I'll take you out!
Noah gets drunk, naked, and passes out. His sons respectfully cover their father. Noah wakes the next day horribly embarrassed and decrees that his grandson will now be a slave to his sons.
Humanity all spoke the same language. In joyous cooperation they build a tower that reached towards the heavens. Full of hope for the future... god feels threatened so he scatters the people throughout the Earth and makes it so they can not understand each other.
One sin and...to woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing...and your husband shall rule over you." To man he said, "cursed is the ground because of you, you'll eat shit the rest of your life, you ain't nothing but dust." "Now get the hell out of paradise - and when you gone, you stay gone." Over-react much?
Pitchfork to the face. First murder. I'm not saying this is god's fault but he loved Abel's meat and scoffed at Cain's vegetables...I'm not saying Cain's reaction was right...but I can understand.