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Biblical Atrocities
* Exodus 32: 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf.
* Numbers 31: After killing all men, boys and married women among the Midianites, 32,000 virgins remain as booty for the Israelites. (If unmarried girls are a quarter of the population, then 96,000 people were killed.)
* Joshua:
o Joshua 8: 12,000 men and women, all the people of Ai, killed.
o Joshua 10: Joshua completely destroys Gibeon ("larger than Ai"), Makeddah, Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron, Debir. "He left no survivors."
o Joshua 11: Hazor destroyed. [Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (1987), estimates the population of Hazor at ?> 50,000]
o TOTAL: if Ai is average, 12,000 x 9 = 108,000 killed.
* Judges 1: 10,000 Canaanites k. at Battle of Bezek. Jerusalem and Zephath destroyed.
* Judges 3: ca. 10,000 Moabites k. at Jordan River.
* Judges 8: 120,000 Midianite soldiers k. by Gideon
* Judges 20: Benjamin attacked by other tribes. 25,000 killed.
* 1 Samuel 4: 4,000 Isrealites killed at 1st Battle of Ebenezer/Aphek. 30,000 Isr. k. at 2nd battle.
* David:
o 2 Samuel 8: 22,000 Arameans of Damascus and 18,000 Edomites killed in 2 battles.
o 2 Samuel 10: 40,000 Aramean footsoldiers and 7,000 charioteers killed at Helam.
o 2 Samuel 18: 20,000 Israelites under Absalom killed at Ephraim.
* 1 Kings 20: 100,000 Arameans killed by Israelites at Battle of Aphek. Another 27,000 killed by collapsing wall.
* 2 Chron 13: Judah beat Israel and inflicted 500,000 casualties.
* 2 Chron 25: Amaziah, king of Judah, k. 10,000 from Seir in battle and executed 10,000 POWs. Discharged Judean soldiers pillaged and killed 3,000.
* 2 Chron 28: Pekah, king of Israel, slew 120,000 Judeans
* TOTAL: That comes to about 1,283,000 mass killings specifically enumerated in the Bible. The battle of 2_Chron_13 is so much larger than all the others that we probably should doubt it.- But those were all good kills. God sorted them out. It's cool.TheBlueOne
- hahaha! TBO comes in with his patented ZINGER!********
- Zinger? Um, no. "Fact" for some people.TheBlueOne
- Nobody understands justice anymore.Scotch_Roman