Terrorism in Bible - 1 Samuel

1 Samuel

2.10: The adversaries of God shall be broken to pieces and struck with thunder. (From what we have seen before, anyone who doesn’t believe in Jehovah appears to be an adversary. As such, let non-believers be careful – God may zap you with a thunder)

2.31-34: If God gets angry with you, he will not only kill you brutally but your family and descendants as well.

6.19: God killed 50,070 men of Bethshemesh for looking into his ark. (It seems God does not know about anything about ‘forgiveness’, ‘mercy’ etc. I mean just looking into the ark does not destroy or bring woe upon the fellow humans. It is no reason for giving death sentence. What sort of God is this? In my opinion, death sentence must be given to this God as the first duty before anything else)

14.12: God delivers the Philistines into Jonathan’s hands for him to slaughter them.

14.20: God makes the Philistines kill each other.

15.2-3: God orders to kill people of Amalek (as He remembers what their forefathers did aeons ago). So He orders to kill all the Amalekites – men, women, infant and suckling. Not only them but animals as well – He orders to kill sheep, ox, camel and ass (whatever did the children and animals do? Whatever did these adults do? Is it right to kill a whole tribe for what their forefathers did aeons ago?)

15.7-8: Saul killed all the people of Amalek.

15.10: God is dissatisfied with Saul because he spared the King of Amalekites and the best of their animals.

15.19: Saul committed sins in the eye of the Lord by not killing the king and some animals.

15.23: Because Saul committed sin by not following God’s orders to the letter, God rejected him from being king.

15.33: To please God, Samuel hacks the king of Amalek to pieces before God in Gilgal.

23.2-5: David asks God’s permission to kill the Philistines. God gives his assent. Therefore, David kills them in great slaughter.

25.22: David vows to kill anyone that pisses against the wall. Isn’t there any other punishment for this? Perhaps they are simply bloodthirsty – both God and his servants.

25.38: God kills Nabal. David is benefited by this killing as takes over Nabal’s wife and property.

27.8-11: David killed every man and woman in the land of Geshurites, Gezrites and Amalekites.

30.17: David kills all the Amalekites except 400 young men who escaped upon camels.