Jeremiah
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Family Values in Jeremiah

  1. God tries to "correct"  people by killing their children. 2:30

  2. A divorced woman is "polluted" when she remarries. The man, of course, remains perfectly clean through it all, even though he was the one who "put her away" in the first place. 3:1

  3. "As a wife treacherously departeth from her husband ..." If a woman leaves her husband, she is "treacherous," but a man is blameless when he "puts her away" for no reason. 3:20

  4. "I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in." He's anxious to "pour it out" on children, young men, husbands, wives, and old people. 6:11-12

  5. God threatens to punish the men by taking away all of their property, including their wives, and giving them to others. 6:12

  6. God plans to kill pretty much everyone: fathers and sons, family, friends, and neighbors. God plans to kill them all after laying a stumbling block before them. 6:21

  7. "Therefore will I give their wives unto others." 8:10

  8. Don't trust anyone. Not even your neighbors, family, or friends. Those who believe differently than you are all liars and evil doers. 9:4-6

  9. God will kill children and young men, and the dead bodies "shall fall as dung .... and none shall gather them." 9:21-22

  10. Jeremiah prays for the destruction of people and families that don't call on God's name. 10:25

  11. "Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine." 11:22

  12. God plans to make everyone in the kingdom drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." 13:13-14

  13. God will kill children and make widows as numerous as grains of sand. 15:7-8

  14. God tells Jeremiah not to get married or have children, because he's going to kill everyone (mothers and daughters, fathers and sons). They all "shall die of grievous deaths," and that shall neither "be lamented" nor buried, but "shall be as dung upon the face of the earth." For he has removed peace, "lovingkindness," and mercy from the people. 16:1-7

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

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

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

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