Can someone help me?

by Morgan 18 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Morgan

  I must have been posting when others were. Yea, I'm slow!

  Thanks SixofNine, and Avishai for the additional info. I am reading these scriptures now.
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  outnfree

  Morgan,

  I don't think there are "scriptural instructions" on just how to hold the legs of the babies whom the Israelites were commanded to kill in the verses cited above. But does it matter whether or not Jehovah gave such instructions or left it to the Israelites the particular method used to kill women and children? I'm sure Farkel's point was that the Israelites engaged in mass genocide while taking over the Land promised to them by Jehovah God.

  Doesn't it disturb you in the slightest that such bloodshed was required in order for an omnipotent god like Israel's Yahweh to provide his nation with a homeland? I mean, wouldn't or shouldn't it have been feasible for the Almighty God of justice, wisdom, love and strength to have put it in the hearts of the Canaanite tribes to forsake that land and migrate elsewhere?

  Unless, of course, Yahweh was not Almighty but just a vengeful, bloodthirsty tribal god?

  outnfree

  Edited because Blondie is correct, the verse in 2 Kings about dashing babies heads was Elisha's prophecie of what Hazael, King of Syria, would do to Israelite children.
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  Bryan

• 2 Kings 8:12 dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

Main Entry: 1 dash
Pronunciation: 'dash
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English dasshen
transitive senses
1 : to break by striking or knocking
2 : to knock, hurl, or thrust violently

I think that says something about heads against the wall.

Bryan