Terrorism in Bible - Judges

Judges:
1.17 – Judah and his brother, Simeon, slew the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and utterly destroyed it.

1.25 – Israeli spies killed everyone in the enemy city except the man and his family who showed them the entrance to the city.

2.1 -3 – God is angry with the Israelis because they were tolerant of the non-believers. They did not completely destroy the infidels’ religious structures. They were told not to make any league with the infidels but they did so (the Israelis made the others their tributaries). Hence, God says that he will not fulfil His promise of driving the infidels out of the land and that they will be a thorn on the side of Israel.

2.12 -14 – God is angry with the Israelis because they worshipped other Gods and hence, he sold them (into slavery? Or is it giving up on them) so that they were unable to stand before their enemies.

3.8 – Once again, God sells the Israelites because they worshipped other Gods. This time he sold them to the King of Mesopotamia for 8 years.

6.25-28 – Gideon destroys a shrine of Lord Baal upon the orders of God.

8.6-17 – The people of a city refuse to feed Gideon’s army, so he kills the elders of the city and all its men.

Chapters 15 and 16 – Samson commits arson and kills many Philistines. Finally, when the Philistines capture and blind him, he dies and takes along with him 3000 Philistine men and women. He prayed to God that they shall be dead along with him. God fulfilled his wishes.