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Jeremiah asks God to bring evil upon his enemies and to "destroy them with double destruction." 17:18

If you don't honor the Sabbath, God will burn you to death unquenchable fire. 17:27

God is a bad potter. Don't complain about it. 18:1-6

God admits that he does evil things to people. 18:11

God will make the land desolate, "a perpetual hissing," so that "very one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head." 18:16

God will scatter the Israelites before their enemy. And then, on "the day of their calamity," he'll show them his backside instead of his face. 18:17

Jeremiah asks God to kill the young men in war and the children by starvation. 18:21

"Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight." 18:23

God will do so much evil to the people that whoever hears of it will have their ears tingle. 19:3

God will make parents eat their own children, and friends each other. 19:7-9

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God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all. 19:11-13

"Thus saith the LORD ... I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words." 19:15

Jeremiah prophesies his rival's death (along with his famly and friends). 20:4-6

God himself will fight and kill everyone in fury "with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm." 21:5

"I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence." 21:6

God will deliver Zedekiah and those that survive the famine, disease, and war into Nebuchadrezzar's hand, and "he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. 21:7

God tells the Judeans to either surrender to the Babylonians and become their slaves or die. "Behold, I am against thee." No kidding. 21:9-13

God will have Jeconiah's enemies kill him and his mother and then ensure that he die without leaving any sons. 22:25-30

God promises to bring more evil upon his chosen people. 23:12

God promises to kill everyone by war, starvation, and disease. 24:10

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Because the people of Judah were unfaithful to him, God will send the king of Babylon (Nebuchadrezzar) to destroy Jerusalem and enslave Judah. 25:6-11

God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians for what they have done to his people -- even though God Himself is the one who made the Babylonians attack and enslave Judah! 25:12-13

God will force "all the kingdoms of the world" to drink "and be drunken." Then he'll kill "all the inhabitants of the earth" with a sword. 25:15-29

God will kill so many people that the entire earth will be covered with their dead bodies. No one is to mourn them or even bury them; "they shall be dung upon the ground." 25:33-38

God will destroy "the peaceable habitations" and make the land desolate "because of his fierce anger." 25:37-38

God tells Jeremiah to make a yoke, put it on his neck, and show it off to a long list of kings. The yoke was supposed to demonstrate how God wants them all to serve Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon. Only God could come up with a plan like that. 27:2-12

God enslaved entire nations and forced them to serve Nebuchadnezzar, "his servant". He even gave him all the wild animals and forced them to serve him. 27:6, 28:14

Anyone who disobeys King Nebuchadnezzar will be punished "with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand." 27:8

Then God (if you are foolish enough to believe Jeremiah) steps in and settles the matter. He is going to force every nation on earth to serve Nebuchadnezzar, along with all of the animals. 28:12-14

God kills Hananiah for disagreeing with Jeremiah. 28:16-17

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God will send his usual blessings upon his people: "the sword, the famine, and the pestilence." He "will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." 29:17-18

God will kill those who refuse listen to his prophets. 29:19

God will deliver Ahab and Zedekiah into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar "and he shall slay them before your eyes" and Ahab will be "roasted in the fire." 29:21-22

God will punish the children of Shemaiah for their father's false prophecy. 29:32

God punishes children for the sins of their parents. 32:18

God brings evil upon people. 32:42

God litters the ground "with the dead bodies of men" that he has killed in his anger and fury. 33:5

To punish the people for refusing to free their slaves, God over-reacts (just a tad) by threatening to send the sword, pestilence, and famine, saying he'll feed their dead bodies to the fowls and beasts of the earth. 34:17-20

Because the Rechabites obeyed Jonadab by not drinking wine, while the people of Judah disobeyed God in some way or another, God is going to do evil things to them. 35:17

"Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them." 36:3

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"I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them." 36:31

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good." 39:16

"The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place." 40:2

"The LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you." 40:3

All those who move to Egypt will die by the sword, famine, or pestilence. None "shall escape from the evil" that comes directly from God. 42:15-18, 22

God explains why he had to bring evil on Judah: the people burned incense to other gods. 44:2-8

God's not finished with Judah. He will bring more evil upon them. Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will hunt them down and kill them all with war, famine, and disease. 44:11-13

God is going to do some really bad things to the people because the women burned incense to the "Queen of Heaven" (Mary?). 44:15-25

"I will watch over them for evil, and not for good." So begins another pronouncement of death and destruction on his chosen people. 44:27-29

God says he will bring evil upon all flesh. 45:5

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"I ... will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof." 46:8

"I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him." 46:25

God plans to drown the Philistines in a flood, and "all the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl." 47:2

God plans to kill just about everybody. "No city shall escape." 48:8

"Cursed by he that keepeth back his sword from blood." 48:10

God will destroy everyone in Moab. Fire will burn their heads, and their sons and daughters will be taken captive. 48:42-47

God will cause the daughters of Rabbah to be burned with fire. 49:2

God will expose Esau's "secret places" and spoil his seed (kill his children). 49:10

"Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes." 49:13

God will send such marvelous plagues on Edom that everyone will hiss in astonishment. 49:17

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God plans to "bring evil upon" the people of Elam. He says he'll kill them all with a sword. 49:37

"Every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues." 50:13

"Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD." 50:14

"It is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her." 50:15

God says to do the usual thing to the inhabitants of "the land of Merathaim": kill them all. 50:21

"I have laid a snare for thee ... O Babylon, and thou wast not aware ... because thou hast striven against the LORD." 50:24

"The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord." 50:25

"Destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left." 50:26

"Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them!" 50:27

Call together the archers against Babylon ... let none thereof escape." 50:29

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Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD." 50:30

God, the pyromaniac, will personally set the fires that will burn to death the inhabitants of entire cities. 50:32

God plans to kill all the Babylonian horses, and to make the Babylonian men "become like women." (A fate worse than death to a misogynous god.). 50:37

"Let the archer bend his bow ...and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host." 51:3

"The slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets." 51:4

"This is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence." 51:6

"Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad." 51:7

"Make bright the arrows ... it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple." 51:11

"The LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon." 51:12

God wants us to be his "battle axe and weapons of war" to "break in pieces the nations" and "destroy kingdoms." 51:20

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God will "break in pieces" pretty much everyone and everything he can think of. 51:21

God will get the Babylonians drunk and then kill them all, leading them "like lambs to the slaughter." 51:39-40 Lamentations


God tramples "as in a winepress" mighty men, young men, and virgins. 1:15

"The Lord Was an enemy." 2:4-8

God mercilessly kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. 2:20-22

God is like a bear or a lion who secretly pursues you and then tears you apart. 3:10-11

"Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not good and evil?" Mostly evil, I'd say -- at least if you believe the Bible. 3:38

"Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger." 3:63-64

God punishes the Israelites by starving their children to death. 4:4-9

God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. 4:10-11

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Ezekiel


God's killing rules:
If Ezekiel doesn't warn the wicked that God's going to kill them for being wicked, God will kill the wicked people and Ezekiel, too.
If Ezekiel warns the wicked, then God will kill the wicked people (if they don't change their wicked ways), but not Ezekiel.
If a good person does something wrong after God "lays a stumbling block before him," then God will kill him. "He shall die in his sin" and whatever good he has done will be forgotten. And Ezekiel will be killed, too, if he didn't warn the good guy beforehand. 3:18-20

God punishes everyone in Israel with a drought and famine. 4:16-17

God will slaughter everyone by killing one third with plagues, one third with famines, and one third with wars. If any somehow survive, he'll send "evil beasts" to devour them. Finally, after he's done killing, he "will be comforted." 5:11-17

God will cause the fathers to eat their sons and the sons to eat their fathers. 5:10

God will decorate the land with the bones and dead bodies of those who worship a different god. 6:4-5

God makes his presence known by killing people with famine, disease, and war. 6:7-14

God will pour out his fury on everyone, with pity toward none. By so doing he says that "ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth." Indeed, who would else would behave so viciously? 7:3-11

God's is mad at everyone and no one will escape his wrath. He'll kill them all with war, disease, and starvation. "Horror shall cover them" and "they shall know that I am the Lord." 7:14-27

God promises again to slaughter everyone. He says that he will ignore them when they plead with him for mercy. 8:18

God sends a "man clothed with linen" to mark the foreheads of the men who will be saved. Apparently only men are considered good enough to keep, the others (unmarked men, "maids", little children, and women) are to be slaughtered. God says he'll "fill the courts with the slain" and will have pity on no one. 9:4-11

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"Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity." 9:5

"Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women." 9:6

"Fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city." 9:7

"Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity." 9:10

A spirit lifts up Ezekiel and transports him to the Lord's house, where he sees 25 men. God tells Ezekiel that he doesn't like these guys because they said things like, "It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron and we be the flesh." 11:1-3

So the spirit of the Lord falls on Ezekiel and tells him to to prophesy against them. 11:4-5

Ezekiel tells the 25 men that God is going to kill them. That way they'll know that God is the Lord. 11:8-12

"And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah ... died." 11:13

God will kill nearly everyone in one way or another (sword, famine, pestilence), but hel leave a few men standing o declare their abominations among the heathen.� 12:15-16, 20

God has Ezekiel do another clever demonstration: eat and drink carefully while shaking. That way, when the people see him doing that, they will know that God is going to starve them to death, which will teach them that God is the Lord. 12:18-20

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God again vows to destroy those that dare worship something or someone other than him. 14:6-8

God deceives some of his prophets and then kills them for believing his lies. 14:9

When really bad things happen (like you or your children get eaten by wild beasts, get killed in war, get sick and die, etc.), then you'll know that it was God that did it to you. And he won't spare children just because there are a few righteous people around. 14:13-21

God will burn the inhabitants of Jerusalem to show everyone that he is the Lord. 15:6-7

For being such a whore, God punished Jerusalem by starving the Israelites and handing them over to the Philistines. 16:17

After exposing her nakedness, God will give her "blood in fury and jealousy" and strip her naked once more. Then he'll have her stoned "with stones and thrust through with swords." 16:38-41

"All souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine." 18:4a

"The soul that sinneth, it shall die." 18:4b

God will kill you for making a single mistake; all your good deeds he will ignore. 18:24-26

"Ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal."
Even the Israelites recognized the injustice of "God's laws" more than 2500 years ago. 18:25, 29

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God planned to "pour out [his] fury" on the Hebrews in Egypt for worshipping idols. But then he changed his mind, thank God. 20:7-8

God threatens three times to kill all the Israelites for disobeying him, but after thinking about it a bit, he decided not to. 20:8, 13, 21

God gave the Israelites "statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live." He "polluted" them so that he "might make them desolate" and force them to kill and sacrifice their children "that they might know" that he is the Lord. 20:25-26

God will set a fire in the southern kingdom that will devour everything and burn everyone. "And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it." 20:47-48

God will kill everyone -- good and bad, just and unjust. 21:3-5

God is sharpening a sword for the slaughter of his people. 21:8-32

"Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land ... for I the LORD have spoken it." 21:32

God will gather all of Israel and consume them in the fires of his anger. 22:20-22

God couldn't find anyone to stand up to him, so he's going to destroy everyone. 22:30-31

Two sisters were guilty of "committing whoredoms" by pressing their breasts and bruising "the teats of their virginity." As a punishment, one sister's nakedness was discovered, her children were taken from her, and she was killed by the sword. And the fate of the surviving sister was even worse: Her nose and ears were cut off, she was made to "pluck off" her own breasts, and then after being raped and mutilated, she is stoned to death. 23:1-49

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"I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest ... And they shall deal with thee hatefully." 23:28-29

"I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen ... Thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision ... thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow." 23:30-33

"The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire." 23:47

God gets all excited about cooking with "scum" and human flesh, saying "kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned." 24:3-14

God kills Ezekiel's wife and then tells him not to mourn her. 24:16-18

God killed Ezekiel's wife to demonstrate his intention to kill the Israelites' children. And just as God told Ezekiel not to mourn his wife's death, God forbids the parents to mourn the death of their children. 24:21-24

God will kill everyone that claps his hands or stamps his feet "against the land of Israel." When he's done with the killing everyone will know that he is the Lord. 25:6-7

"I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD." 25:11

God will send Israelites to slaughter the people of Edom. 25:13-14

God will "stretch out his hand" to the Philistines (to kill them all). 25:16-17

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God says he will destroy Tyrus. He plans to kill everyone, but he is especially looking forward to killing all of the women. "And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD." 26:1-21

Now God has singled out the king of Tyre for his tirades. 28:7-10, 18-19

Watch out or God will make you "die the deaths of the uncircumcised," which is, no doubt, a most unpleasant death. 28:10

God says that Zidon will know that he is the Lord when he \ sends "pestilence and blood into her streets." 28:22-23

God tells Ezekiel to prophesy against the pharaoh and against all Egypt. God says he will feed the Egyptians to the birds and beasts. 29:2-9

God will punish Egypt and her allies by sending Nebuchadrezzar to "fill the land with the slain." God will top it off by making "the rivers dry," selling the land to "the wicked," making "the land waste," lighting fires, and having the young men "fall by the sword." 30:4-26

"And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt." (The Divine Pyromaniac) 30:8, 30:14, 30:16

"Thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD." 31:18

God will treat Pharaoh like a whale fished out of the sea. Every bird and beast in the world will feed upon him. 32:3-6

God will vex the hearts of many people, destroy entire nations, brandish his sword, kill animals, and cause floods. In this way people will come to know him (just before he kills them?). 32:9-15

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God takes a break from killing people while he kills all the animals in Egypt. 32:13

Pharaoh and all his multitude, along with the uncircumcised, will be killed with the sword. 32:20-32

When God is getting ready to kill people with the sword, it's the watchman's duty to warn them about it by blowing a trumpet. If the people hear the trumpet but don't "take warning," then God will kill the people but not the watchman. But if the watchman doesn't blow the trumpet when he sees God coming, then God will kill the people and the watchman. 33:2-6

God tells Ezekiel that he is the watchman. So the usual watchman rules apply to him. 33:7-9

If a "righteous" person does something wrong, God will forget every good thing that that person has ever done. Then God will kill him for the single mistake. 33:12-13

"Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal."
The Israelites rightly recognize the injustice in God's killing rules. 33:17, 20

God plans some more killing by the sword, beasts, and the pestilence. 33:27-29

God tells Ezekiel about his plans for the Edomites (Seir). He's going to kill them all. That way they'll know for sure that he is the Lord. 35:2-15

"Thou shalt come up against my people of Israel ... in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me ... O Gog." 38:16

God will cause each man's sword to be against his brother; he will send disease and make it rain fire and brimstone. He says that by doing this he'll magnify and sanctify himself and let everyone know that he is the Lord. 38:21-23

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God will have birds and beasts eat human flesh and drink human blood until they are full and drunken. 39:4, 17-20, 28

God sets a fire on Magog and feeds Gog and all of his people to the birds and beasts. He did all this to let them know that he is the Lord. 39:4-7

After the Israelites spend seven years burying Gog's soldiers, God (somehow) feed their bodies to the birds and beasts and gets t hem drunk on their blood. 39:17-28

"They have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger." 43:8

"The prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession."
This verse is used by Rethuglicans to justify protecting the rich from taxation. 46:18

God gives a huge chunk of land to Israel, dividing it equally among the tribes -- except for Joseph, who gets a double portion. (What did the Palestinians get?) 47:13
Daniel


"The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his [Nebuchadnezzar's] hand." 1:2

"He removeth kings, and setteth up kings."
Monarchy is God's preferred form of government. God chooses the kings and then removes them when he feels like it. 2:21


God forced Nebuchadnezzar to live with animals and eat grass like an ox. His hair was like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws. 4:28-33

After going through a rather bizarre ordeal, inflicted upon him by God, Nebuchadnezzar heaps praise upon God -- in whose eyes "all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing." 4:34-37

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After Daniel gave Belshazzar the bad news, Belshazzar rewarded him by making him the "third ruler in the kindgdom." Later that night Belshazzar died. (Did God kill him?) 5:29-30

King Darius, after trying to feed Daniel to the lions, orders those who accused Daniel (and their wives and children) to be cast into the lion den. "And the lions ... brake all their bones in pieces." 6:24
Hosea


"I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel." 1:6

God "will not have mercy upon ... the children of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the harlot." 2:4-5

Hosea buys a wife for 15 pieces of silver and one and a half homers of barley. 3:2

Because of the Israelites' disobedience, the land mourns, and all the animals are dying. 4:3

If you misbehave, God will make your daughters "commit whoredom" and your wife "commit adultery." 4:13

"Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke." 5:9

"The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water." 5:10

God will tear up Ephraim like a lion so that "in their affliction they will seek me." 5:14

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"I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven." 7:12

"Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them!" 7:13

"They return, but not to the most High ... their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue." 7:16

God will induce miscarriages and kill the children of Ephraim. 9:11-12

"O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts." 9:14

God hates the sinner even more than the sin. 9:15

"I will slay even the beloved fruit of their womb." 9:16

God will punish Israel by "dashing" together mothers and their children. 10:14

The blame for Ephraim's bloody destruction falls on Ephraim, not on God. Even though God is the one who brings it about. 12:14

"I will be thy plagues ... I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." 13:14

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Because the Samaritans chose to worship another deity, God will dash their infants to pieces and their "women with child shall be ripped up." 13:16 Joel


God torments the animals by burning their food and drying up the rivers.  1:18-20

"A fire devoureth before them ... nothing shall escape."
On "the day of the Lord", everything and everyone will be burned to death. 2:3

God says he will repay Israel for the damage the locusts caused -- which he sent! And they will "praise the name of the Lord." 2:25-26

"I will sell your sons and your daughters ... for the Lord hath spoken it." 3:8

"Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness." 3:19 Amos


The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5

"I will ... cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven ... and the people of Syria shall go into captivity." 1:5

"I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD." 1:8

God says there are three or four reasons for him to punish Moab. But he only mentions one: "because he burned the bones of the king of Edom." So God burned Moab because they burned some bones. 2:1