God on Genocide and Massacres |
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(Deuteronomy 7:2,16) And
when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite
them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor shew mercy unto them: (I Chronicles 21:14-15) So the LORD sent pestilence
upon Israel: and there fell of Israel severity thousand men. (Genesis 6:7) And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. |
(Deuteronomy
20:16-17) But of
the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for
an inheritance, thou shalt save nothing alive that breatheth: (I Samuel 6:19) And he smote the men of Beth-Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men; and the people lamented, because the LROD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. (II Kings 19-35) And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp the Assyrians an hundred four-score and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning behold, they were all dead corpses. (Genesis 19:24-25) Then the LORD rained
upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
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4/8/09