The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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God "delivers" more folks into the hands of his chosen people. "And they slew of Moab ... about 10,000 men for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see." 28:67

Ehud delivers a "message from God" to the king of Moab. God's message consists of a knife thrust so deeply of a pit in time of snow. And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand." God's hit list: Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, the sea coast, Canaan, the Philistines, Moab, the children of Ammon, Ethiopians, Assyrians, and Nineveh. God brought a seven year, "very grievous" famine on the whole earth for no apparent reason (except maybe to make Joseph wealthy). They shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die."

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do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord I gave them [the Amorites] into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you."

God gave the Israelites "statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live." He "polluted" them so that he "might make them desolate" Job • To start off God and Satan's gruesome game, Job's slaves and animals are burned to death or killed with swords. Then Job's of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings." 6:14Samson rips up a young lion when "the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him." Later, when going to "take" The spirit of God came upon Zechariah and he condemned everyone for disobeying God, so the people stoned him to death. lean on staves. (The Revised Standard Version translates "leaneth on a staff" as "holds a spindle," apparently