Absalom "goes in unto" his father's [David's] concubines. 16:21-22
To punish his ten concubines for being raped by his son (See 2 Samuel 16.21-22), David refuses to ever again have sex
with them and forces them to "keep house" for the rest of their lives. 20:3
God sends a three-year famine for something Saul did. 21:1
To appease God and end the famine that was caused by his predecessor (Saul), David agrees to have two of Saul's sons
and five of his grandsons killed and hung up "unto the Lord." 21:6-9
When David had a census (that God "moved" him to have), God gave him a choice of three punishments: seven years of famine, three months of war, or three
days of pestilence. David couldn't decide, so God chose for him and 70,000 men died in a plague. (The details are different in
1 Chronicles, but the principle is the same.) 24:1-15
God kills a couple hundred thousand people because David had a census. 21:1-14
(See 2 Sam.24:1-15 for a different version of this story.)
So there were these two prophets. The first prophet lied to the second. To punish the second for believing the first's lie,
God sent a lion to kill him. 13:11-24
Ever the playful spirit, God withers, and then restores, the hand of king Jeroboam. 13:4-6
God has Jezebel thrown off a wall and feeds her body to the dogs. 9:33-37
All seventy of king Ahab's sons are killed, their heads put in baskets, and sent to Jehu.
(God was punishing Ahab for not killing a captured king.
See 1 Kings 20:42) 10:1-10
"So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel,
and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining." 10:11
"They took them alive, and slew ... two and forty men."
Jehu meets with 42 brothers of Ahaziah, and then he murders them. 2 Chronicles 22:7 says
that his killing was "of God." 10:13-14
Jehu shows off his "zeal for the Lord" by murdering the rest of Ahab's family in Samaria. 10:16-17
Jehu assembled the followers of Baal and then slaughtered them all. 10:18-28
God rewards Jehu for murdering Ahab and his family. 10:30
God, the divine physician, strikes king Azariah with leprosy. 15:5
God sends lions to devour the Samaritans because "they knew not the manner of the God of the land."
17:25-26
"That they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you" 18:27
An angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men while they sleep. "And when
they arose, behold, they were all dead corpses." 19:35
God caused king Sennacherib to be murdered by his sons. 19:36-37
Isaiah makes the sun move ten degrees backwards. 20:11
"Rehoboam ... took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters."
11.21
"The Lord struck him (Jeroboam) and he died." 13:20
"Abijam waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives." 13:21
Whoever does not seek the God of Israel should be executed. 15:13
Asa, when he had a foot disease, went to
physicians instead of seeking the Lord. (God disapproves of those who
seek medical help rather than "seeking the Lord." 16:12
God puts lies into the mouths of his prophets. 18:22
He killed Ahab for showing mercy to king Benhadad. (See 1 Kings 20:42) 18:33
Hate the sinner, or God will pour out his wrath upon you. 19:2
God fought for Judah by forcing the members of the opposing army to kill each other. 20:14-25
He killed Jehoram by making his bowels fall out. 21:18-19
He sent the king of the Chaldees to kill all the "young men with the sword." He had "no compassion
upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand." 36:16-17Ezra
The Israelites offend God by "taking" foreign wives and thereby corrupting the "holy seed." 9:2
When Ezra hears of the intermarriages he tears his clothes, plucks out his
hair and beard, and sits down astonished. 9:3
Nehemiah rebukes the men for marrying "strange wives." To punish
them he "contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair."
13:25-27Esther
King Ahasuerus throws a party and encourages his guests to drink to excess. Then,
when they are all drunk, he orders Queen Vashti to show her stuff before him and his guests. 1:7-11
Queen Vashti (the real heroine of the Book of Esther) refuses to display
herself in front of the king's drunken guests. 1:7-12
For her refusal, Vashti is stripped of her crown and came "no more before king." 1:13-19
Because of Vashti's disobedience the king decrees that "all the wives
shall give to their husbands honor" and "that every man should
bear rule over his own house." 1:20-22
"All the fair young virgins" throughout the kingdom are brought
before the king and the one that "pleaseth" him the most will replace Queen Vashti. 2:2-4
Esther wins the pleasing the king babe contest. 2:8-9
But since women are dirty, she must be "purified" for twelve
months before she can be made queen. 2:12
Esther has Haman and his ten sons hung. 7:10, 9:13
At Esther's request, the king orders everyone in the empire who planned to kill Jews to be killed by Jews,
along with their wives and children. 8:9-19
"All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again." 3:20
"Walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes." 11:9
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding,
nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." 9:11
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,
in the grave, whither thou goest." 9:10
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart." 9:7
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward;
for the memory of them is forgotten." 9:5
"For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion." 9:4
"A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to
drink, and to be merry." 8:15
"I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things." 7:25
"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools." 7:5
"Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king." 4:13
"A fool's voice is known by multitude of words." 5:3
If you mock your father or disobey your mother, the ravens will pick out
your eyeballs and feed them to the eagles. 30:17Ecclesiastes
"There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour."
2:24
"There is no good ... but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life." 3:12
"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth,
so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast." 3:19
"Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
3:21
"There is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works." 3:22
"Every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour." 3:13
