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Old Testament -> 2 Chronicles

Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives ... And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out.
2 Chronicles 21:14-15

Second Chronicles for Skeptics

The Bible brags about the strangest things. Why exaggerate the number of people and animals killed by God? Here are some examples from 2 Chronicles.

• Solomon kills 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep when dedicating the temple. 7:5

• God helps Abijah kill 500,000 Israelites. 13:15-20

• In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa kills one million Ethiopians. 14:8-13

• Pekah kills 120,000 people in one day “because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.” 28:6, 8

Other highlights:

• Whoever does not seek the God of Israel should be executed. 15:13

• God puts lies into the mouths of his prophets. 18:22

• Hate the sinner, or God will pour out his wrath upon you. 19:2

• God killed the women and children of Judah and smote the men with an incurable disease of the bowels until their “bowels fell out.” 21:14-19

• Amaziah, with God’s help, kills 10,000 people; another 10,000 he leaves alive so that he can throw them off a cliff and break them in pieces. 25:11-12

• God makes Uzziah a leper for burning incense without a license. 26:19-21

• God sends the king of the Chaldees to kill all the “young men with the sword.” He had “no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.” 36:16-17

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