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2 Sam 24:14; Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the LORD for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man."
2 Sam 24:15; So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
Gen 19:24; Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
Deut 29:23; 'All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.'
Luke 17:29; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Rev 21:8; "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
1 Cor 10:7; Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY."
1 Cor 10:8; Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Numb 25:2; For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Numb 25:3; So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.
Numb 25:4; The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
Numb 25:5; So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor."
Numb 25:6; Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Numb 25:7; When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
Numb 25:8; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
Numb 25:9; Those who died by the plague were over 23,000.
Exod 4:22; "Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, "Israel is My son, My firstborn.
Exod 4:23; "So I said to you, 'Let My son go that he may serve Me'; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn."'"
Numb 31:15; And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?
Numb 31:16; "Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.
Numb 31:17; "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.
1 Sam 15:2; "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel , how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.
1 Sam 15:3; 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
Exod 22:18; "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exod 22:20; "He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.
Psa 137:7; Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it To its very foundation."
Psa 137:8; O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us.
Psa 137:9; How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.
Jdg 11:30; Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,
Jdg 11:31; then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering."
Jdg 11:34; When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.
Jdg 11:35; When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot take it back."
Jdg 11:39; At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made ; and she had no relations with a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel,
1 Sam 6:19; He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.
1 Sam 6:20; The men of Beth-shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?"
Deut 25:11; "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,
Deut 25:12; then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
Josh 6:21; They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Exod 20:4; "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
Exod 20:5; "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Gen 22:1; Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
Gen 22:2; He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."
( Abraham didn't have to sacrifice Isaac, but he was willing to. )
Luke 14:26; "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
This could likely be translated, anyone who loves their family more than they love me can not be my disciple. We serve a jealous God.
Jer 15:6; "You who have forsaken Me," declares the LORD, "You keep going backward. So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am tired of relenting!
Isa 13:6; Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isa 13:7; Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.
Isa 13:8; They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.
1 Cor 3:17; If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
Acts 5:3; But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Acts 5:4; "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
Acts 5:5; And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.
1 Jn 4:8; and 1 Jn 4:16; say God is love. But many people mistake that for God doesn't punish people.
Heb 12:29; for our God is a consuming fire.
This is just a small sample of some of the things God did and told his people to do (often TO His chosen people) to anyone who disobeyed God.
We think God is worried about babies more than He is concerned about faithfulness and His holiness. Yet how many passage above say "kill the babies".
People who say we don't know God or know His character have never read the Bible.
God is our Father, He does love His children, but not to the expense that they can reject Him or His Son.
Rom 8:15; For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
Gal 4:6; Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Rev 6:4; And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.
Rev 6:8; I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Rev 13:10; If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.
I haven't even gotten half-way through the Bible yet about verses were God smote this person, destroyed that nation, put His own people into slavery, and He himself killed babies.
Exod 12:29; Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt , from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exod 12:30; Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
God loves His children, He wishes that none of us would perish. But make no mistake... Many will.
Matt 7:13; "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
Matt 7:14; "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Rev 6:17; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"
There are people who would like to take these verses out of the Bible. There are people who say God isn't like that, He would never hurt of punish anyone.
But these verses ARE in the Bible and there are more like them. Do not mistake who God is.
Matt 10:28; "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
If you think there is no penalty for rejecting repentance and Jesus... think again.
Rev 20:15; And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Numb 16:27; So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives and their sons and their little ones.
Numb 16:28; Moses said, "By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing.
Numb 16:29; "If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
Numb 16:30; "But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the LORD."
Numb 16:31; As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;
Numb 16:32; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.
Numb 16:33; So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
2 Sam 24:15; So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
Gen 19:24; Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
Deut 29:23; 'All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.'
Luke 17:29; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Rev 21:8; "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
1 Cor 10:7; Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY."
1 Cor 10:8; Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Numb 25:2; For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Numb 25:3; So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.
Numb 25:4; The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
Numb 25:5; So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor."
Numb 25:6; Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Numb 25:7; When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
Numb 25:8; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.
Numb 25:9; Those who died by the plague were over 23,000.
Exod 4:22; "Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, "Israel is My son, My firstborn.
Exod 4:23; "So I said to you, 'Let My son go that he may serve Me'; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn."'"
Numb 31:15; And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?
Numb 31:16; "Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.
Numb 31:17; "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.
1 Sam 15:2; "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel , how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.
1 Sam 15:3; 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
Exod 22:18; "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exod 22:20; "He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.
Psa 137:7; Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it To its very foundation."
Psa 137:8; O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us.
Psa 137:9; How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.
Jdg 11:30; Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,
Jdg 11:31; then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering."
Jdg 11:34; When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.
Jdg 11:35; When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot take it back."
Jdg 11:39; At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made ; and she had no relations with a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel,
1 Sam 6:19; He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.
1 Sam 6:20; The men of Beth-shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?"
Deut 25:11; "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,
Deut 25:12; then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
Josh 6:21; They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Exod 20:4; "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
Exod 20:5; "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Gen 22:1; Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
Gen 22:2; He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."
( Abraham didn't have to sacrifice Isaac, but he was willing to. )
Luke 14:26; "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
This could likely be translated, anyone who loves their family more than they love me can not be my disciple. We serve a jealous God.
Jer 15:6; "You who have forsaken Me," declares the LORD, "You keep going backward. So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am tired of relenting!
Isa 13:6; Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isa 13:7; Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.
Isa 13:8; They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.
1 Cor 3:17; If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
Acts 5:3; But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Acts 5:4; "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
Acts 5:5; And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.
1 Jn 4:8; and 1 Jn 4:16; say God is love. But many people mistake that for God doesn't punish people.
Heb 12:29; for our God is a consuming fire.
This is just a small sample of some of the things God did and told his people to do (often TO His chosen people) to anyone who disobeyed God.
We think God is worried about babies more than He is concerned about faithfulness and His holiness. Yet how many passage above say "kill the babies".
People who say we don't know God or know His character have never read the Bible.
God is our Father, He does love His children, but not to the expense that they can reject Him or His Son.
Rom 8:15; For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
Gal 4:6; Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Rev 6:4; And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.
Rev 6:8; I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Rev 13:10; If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.
I haven't even gotten half-way through the Bible yet about verses were God smote this person, destroyed that nation, put His own people into slavery, and He himself killed babies.
Exod 12:29; Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt , from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exod 12:30; Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
God loves His children, He wishes that none of us would perish. But make no mistake... Many will.
Matt 7:13; "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
Matt 7:14; "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Rev 6:17; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"
There are people who would like to take these verses out of the Bible. There are people who say God isn't like that, He would never hurt of punish anyone.
But these verses ARE in the Bible and there are more like them. Do not mistake who God is.
Matt 10:28; "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
If you think there is no penalty for rejecting repentance and Jesus... think again.
Rev 20:15; And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Numb 16:27; So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives and their sons and their little ones.
Numb 16:28; Moses said, "By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing.
Numb 16:29; "If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
Numb 16:30; "But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the LORD."
Numb 16:31; As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;
Numb 16:32; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.
Numb 16:33; So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
