The Immorality Of Jehovah

In the Second Book of Chronicles Jehovah gets Ahab, King of Israel,

killed by putting lies into the mouths of the prophets:

And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab, king of Israel, that

he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake, saying

after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and

said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth

of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,

and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

In Deuteronomy are the following orders as to conduct in war:

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the

Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou

hast taken them captive.

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a

desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall

shave her head, and pare her nails;

And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,

and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her

mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,

and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shall

let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all

for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou

hast humbled her.

The children of Israel, having been sent out by Jahweh to punish the

Midianites, "slew all the males." But Moses was wrath, because they had

spared the women, and he ordered them to kill all the married women, and

to take the single women "for themselves." The Lord allowed this

brutal act--which included the murder of all the male children--to be

consummated. There were sixteen thousand females spared, of which we are

told that "the Lord's tribute was thirty and two."

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