The Violent Scriptures

Supposedly the people of Judah shouted and God helped them kill ½ million Israelites:

[2 Chr 13:15 NRSV] Then the people of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the people of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

[2 Chr 13:16-18 NRSV] The Israelites fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hands. Abijah and his army defeated them with great slaughter; five hundred thousand picked men of Israel fell slain.
Thus the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the people of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

God slaughters 70 men for simply looking into the Ark:

[1 Sam 6:19 RSV] And he [God] slew some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the LORD; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.

Korah questions Moses’ leadership and God makes the earth open up and swallow his people: men, women, and children:

[Num 16:20-21 NRSV] Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: Separate yourselves from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment. They fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?"

[Num 16:27 NRSV] […]and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance of their tents, together with their wives , their children , and their little ones .

[Num 16:32-33 NRSV] 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.

Not Appeased Yet, God Burns Some More Followers:

[Num 16:35 NRSV] And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.

[Num 16:41 NRSV] On the next day, however, the whole congregation of the Israelites rebelled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."

...God is further angered:

[Num 16:45 NRSV] "Get away from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.

[Num 16:49 NRSV] Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

God Commands And Assists In Genocide:

[City of Jericho][6:21] 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.

[City of Ai][8:22]Israel struck them down until no one was left who survived or escaped.

[8:29] And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city …

[The Amorites] [10:10] …[the Israelites] inflicted a great slaughter on them at Gibeon …, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

God throws boulders down from heaven onto fleeing Amorites:

[10:11] 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.

[10:12-13] …Joshua spoke to the LORD; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and Moon, in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in midheaven, and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.

[10:20] When Joshua and the Israelites had finished inflicting a very great slaughter on them, until they were wiped out.

More Genocide:

[11:1-4] People of Hazor, Madon, Shimron, Achshaph, northern hill country, Arabah, Naphoth-dor, Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites [again?], the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites and the Hivites unite against the Israelites.

[11:14] All the spoil of these towns, and the livestock, the Israelites took for their booty; but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.

[11:20] For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts [the Canaanites] so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed, and might receive no mercy, but be exterminated, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

God threatens to punish the Israelites by forcing them to eat the flesh of their children:

[Lev 26:27-28 NRSV] But if, despite this, you disobey me, and continue hostile to me, I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

[Lev 26:29 NRSV] You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

[Jer 19:9 NRSV] And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege, and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.

God kills scores of innocent babies and children:

[Exo 11:10 NRSV] Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh; but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

[Exo 12:29 NRSV] 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.

God kills a man for not impregnating his brother’s wife:

[Gen 38:9-10 NRSV] But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother. What he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also.

God allows Jewish babies to be dashed to pieces and pregnant Jewish women to be ripped open:

[Hosea 13:16 NRSV] Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

The Bible says to kill your wife, your daughter, your son, your brother, your friend, etc… if they worship other gods:

[Deu 13:6-10 NRSV] If anyone secretly entices you–even if it is your brother, your father’s son or your mother’s son, or your own son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend– saying, "Let us go worship other gods," whom neither you nor your ancestors have known, any of the gods of the peoples that are around you, whether near you or far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other, you must not yield to or heed any such persons. Show them no pity or compassion and do not shield them. But you shall surely kill them; your own hand shall be first against them to execute them, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Stone them to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God.

...And people still claim this is the WORD OF GOD?