- Chapter 79 in Drunk with Blood: God's killings in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 8:5-6
- Estimated Number Killed: 65,850 Syrians plus about 1000 Philistines
- Table of God's killings
- Who has killed more Satan or God?
- God's next killing
- Who has killed more Satan or God?
More information about God's killings, with a chapter on each of the 135 killing events, can be found int the book:
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What was the purpose of that commandment - "Thou shalt not kill" ?
Should it have been - "Thou shalt not kill, just kidding, go ahead & commit genocide"?
Good ol' God probably meant, "Thou shalt not kill... except to honour ME!!! Hee-hee-hee!"
As an aside, what is it with the crappy computations in the Bible? A child could understand the difference between seven hundred and seven thousand!
Actually, there is of course a lot of debate over what exactly the term "kill" means in that commandment. For instance, it clearly does not apply to animals. Generally, the way I've heard it often explained is that it would best be interpreted as "murder", which means the killing of persons for personal reasons. Under this definition, killing during wartime doesn't count.
Now the really interesting thing that I came here to share, albeit a bit belatedly, is that particualrly among Jews, there is a lot of debate as to what it was exactly that was bad about David's actions towards Uriah. Some actually believe that David was guilty of neither murder nor adultery, but only of handling the matter in a manner that made it look morally questionable, believe it or not.
Here's the argument, some of which actually holds some water, believe it or not: It is common for Jews to get divorces before going off to war, just in case their bodies cannot be brought back from the battlefield. If there is no body to prove the husband is dead, the wife is still considered married. Therefore, Bathsheba was not likely to be legally married when she slept with David, and therefore, it was not *technically* adultery. As for Uriah, In 2Sam11:11, he refers to Joab as "My Lord", therefore hinting that there was an insurrection of some sort. Uriah was killed for treason as a warning to Joab.
I'm not saying I believe this, I just find it an interesting theory.
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