Jeremiah
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Intolerance in Jeremiah

  1. Those who worship "other gods" are wicked. 1:16

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

  3. God sends plagues and violence to try to correct people. 5:3

  4. Those who don't follow or know God are "poor" and "foolish." 5:4

  5. God will kill those who believe and preach the wrong doctrines. 5:12-13

  6. God again talks of bringing a foreign nation to destroy his chosen ones and their lands. 5:15-17

  7. God "will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts" because they refuse to do whatever the hell he asks them to do. 6:19

  8. God says that there are some people that you just shouldn't bother praying for. And if you do he won't listen anyway. 7:16

  9. God is angered by children who gather wood, fathers who make fires, and women that make bread for the "queen of heaven" (Mary?) and other gods. 7:18

  10. 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

  11. "Learn not from the heathen." 10:2

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

  13. Those who don't follow the Old Testament laws are cursed by God. 11:3

  14. Jeremiah prays for vengeance upon his enemies. 11:20

  15. Jeremiah asks God to drag away his enemies like "sheep for the slaughter."  12:3

  16. If any nation does not listen to God, he "will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation." 12:17

  17. Worshipping other gods "is good for nothing." 13:10

  18. God plans to make everyone in the kingdom drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." The merciful God of Peace vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." 13:13-14

  19. God tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people. God has decided to kill them all and he doesn't want to be talked out of it. 14:11

  20. God will destroy by famine and sword those who are misled by the prophets, as well as the prophets themselves. 14:15-16

  21. God plans to do four things to his people: 1) kill them with swords, 2) tear their flesh with dogs, 3) have the birds, and 4) the beasts eat their bodies. Why will he do these terrible things? Because of something some former king did. 15:2-4

  22. God will kill children if their parents worship other gods. 16:10-11

  23. God will enslave the people of Judah because they worshipped the wrong gods. 17:4

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

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

  26. For worshipping "other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known," God will make parents eat their own children, and friends each other. Then he'll feed whoever's left to the birds. 19:4, 7-9

  27. 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

  28. Don't make God angry by going after other gods. If you do, he'll just have to hurt you. 25:6

  29. God kills Hananiah for prophesying falsely. 28:15-17

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

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

  32. God threatens again to send his people the sword, pestilence, and famine, saying he'll feed their dead bodies to the fowls and beasts of the earth. 34:17-20

  33. God is angry at the Israelites for making things with their hands and burning incense to other gods. 44:8

  34. God is going to do some really bad things to the people because the women burned incense to the "Queen of Heaven" (Mary?). 44:15-23

  35. "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

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

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

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

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