Where in the old testament did God order the Jews to kill the non followers and destroy their belongings.?

Question

I found out that the Quoran did more or less order the destruction of non followers. I believe I read some similiar orders from God in the Bible about people who did not follow his word. I believe God may have ordered the destruction of entire populations of people who lived on the land that he had gave to his choosen people. If this is true where can I find it in the the Bible? Please be specific. Thank you Brother.

Answer 1

That happened quite a bit actually.

The fall of Jericho comes to mind first, but Moses did it several times. Josua did it several times. Saul did it a few times. David did it a lot. It was actually kind of a regular thing till the Israelites were drug off into captivity by the Assyrians.

The doctrines of love and forgiveness that christians believe today really don't show up until the New Testiment. There might be some disagreement, but I think that most christians believe that the current value of the old testiment is mostly historical now rather than instructional. No christians I know advocate wiping out anyone and I would distance myself from any who did.

Answer 2

The Tannaïtic Midrash Sifre to Numbers in §157 comments on the above quoted commandment of MOSES to kill the Midianite women as well as the male children...."

"....According to the Tannaïte Rabbis, MOSES therefore had ordered the Israelites to kill all women older than three years and a day, because they were [virgins and] "suitable for having sexual relations." [138]...."

Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive as sex slaves. When Moses learns that they left some alive, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins . ----(Numbers 31:1-54)


Bible Says to KILL ALL NON-BELIEVERS

"Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed. (Exodus 22:20)

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)


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Answer 3

i could in part disagree. There are some verses interior the old testomony that advise that God is a loving, gracious, forgiving and kindly God; you will discover them in case you look stressful adequate. even nonetheless, the time-honored effect I get rid of from the old testomony (and that i've got study the finished Bible 4 situations) is that Jehovah is a vengeful, strict, judgmental, somewhat stressful-hearted god. in assessment, Jesus' Father (or in Aramaic, Abba, meaning greater properly "expensive Father") is forgiving, kindhearted, mushy, and who desires the enterprise of mankind. Abba says "Knock and the door would be opened unto you." he's the sturdy shepherd who searches for his misplaced sheep and while He unearths him, is pretty happy. he's the father interior the Prodigal Son tale. the place Jehovah sent plagues upon Pharaoh, killed toddlers, knocked down the partitions of Jericho, grew to become a woman right into a pillar of salt, etc, Father only loves, and needs human beings to care approximately one yet another.

Answer 4

Read Joshua...There were many nations in Canaan that practiced terrible things in worshiping demons...man made idols...etc...performing human sacrifices...burning their children on alters made to demons...sexual perversion in their "religious" orgiastic rites....rapes, murders, deception, sodomy, etc... so God judged those societies to be destroyed and had Joshua cleanse the land of them and destroy their alters and false idols when God's chosen people took possession of the land on God's Command.

Of course this is not a "standing order" for Christians who believe what the Bible says, it was a specific time in Biblical history recorded for us. There are many things in the Bible that are specific to a time, nation and place in history, that are not meant to be "standing orders" for believers in other times. They are examples of God's authority. Just as Joseph ruled Egypt under Pharaoh...we Christians are not to try and bring back a Pharaoh so we can rule under him in Egypt. There are many examples for us that are simply to teach us about the history of God's people, and teach us specific lessons about faith, etc.

Addition: Christianity is of Christ, and Christ came to save sinners not to condemn them, and since God didn't condemn the world in Christ, we certainly are not to do so. When Christ returns, then will be the judgment...until then, all who will accept Christ as their savior will be saved and not be condemned.

Answer 5

The Jews do not kill non followers. There is no place in the Old Testament that tells them to do so. They are a peace loving people who just want to be left alone.

Answer 6

Look it up at (Bible.com) as for me the only 1 that comes to my attention at this moment is when God rejected King Saul as King of Israel for disobeying that very order, which was to annihilate a certain people and take no spoils whatsoever, but King Saul kept herds of animals for himself for 1 thing, somewhere in 1st or 2nd Chronicles.(Bible.com)

Answer 7

1 Samuel 15
1 Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. 2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.' "

Saul did not follow the word of the Lord.

Answer 8

No. My family didn't kill anyone. w were too busy being poor to worry about bloodshed. besides it isn't one of the 10 commandments is it? thou shalt not kill?

They killed us.....

The Moors, the Spaniards, The Russians, THe Nazis, The Greeks, The Romans, The Christians, The Muslims, the British...over 1000s of years.

Answer 9

Deuteronomy
Destroy the altars, images, and places of worship of those with different religions. 7:5
Kill everyone with religious beliefs that are different than your own. (Including your family, friends, and neighbors) 13:6-10, 13:12-16, 17:2-7
You can find even more examples of the violence in the bible here:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

Answer 10

"And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God..." (Deuteronomy 13: 5)

"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;" (Deuteronomy 13: 6)

"Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people." (Deuteronomy 13:8-9)

"Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword." (Deuteronomy 13:15)