0 SAB - Drunk with Blood: God's killings in 1 Chronicles

God's Killings in Esther,Job,Jeremiah and Ezekiel

There are only four killings in the last 25 books of the Protestant Old Testament. But each is important in its own way.

In the Purim killings in the Book of Esther, God shows us his views on women, thought crimes, and preemptive war.

In the Book of Job, we see how God and Satan work together, betting on how a father will react after they kill his children.

In the killing of the prophet Hananiah in the book of Jeremiah, we learn how to tell a true prophet from a false one. (The false prophet is the one that is killed by God or prophesying good things.)

And then there's the killing of Ezekiel's wife. God killed her to show us how we should mourn the death of our friends and family after God kills them. (We shouldn't.)

Here are the killings:

  1. The Purim killings
  2. God and/or Satan kill Job's children, servants, and animals
  3. Hananiah
  4. Pelatiah
  5. Ezekiel's wife

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