Let's count the dead ...


In the beginning there was one...
Genesis 19:26: But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Then two...
Genesis 38:7: But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.

Then three...
Genesis 38:10: What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so he put him to death also.

And threethousand more to make threethousand and three...
Exodus 32:27-28: Then he said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.' " The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

And unknown number more...
Exodus 32:35: And the LORD struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

And two more to make 3005 counted killings...

Leviticus 10:1-2
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

And anotherone bites the dust...

Leviticus 24:23: Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

And another one...

Numbers 15:36: So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.

And more then a dozen in

Numbers 16 ...

and immediately followed by 250 in the same chapter...

For the total of more then 3269 so far.

But the worst is yet to come... in the same chapter 14,700 more are killed...

Followed by additional 24,000 in Numbers 25

Then masacre in Numbers 31 when probably tens of thousdand of people (men, women, boys) were killed.

And we go back to stoning of the whole family in Joshua 7.

Is this compassion? Is this forgiving? Is this loving?

Is over hundred thousdand not good enough? How about an even million to add to it?

2 Chronicles 14 (defeated and killed an army of a million)

Matthew 1

Matthew 1:1-16 Booooooooring! 1 Tim 1:4 says: "nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies..." Titus 3:9 says: "But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies..." Can someone pay some attention to other parts of the bible and follow them?

Matthew 1:3 "Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar" Judah was weird. I thought Tamar was his daughter-in-law (Genesis 38:6 "Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar."). I also take it it was more then 10 generations since this Judah/Tamar forbidden marriage so Jesus could enter the assenbly of the Lord (Deuteronomy 23:2 "No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation.")

Matthew 1:6-16 Lists 28 generations from David to Jesus, Luke 3:23-31 lists 43.

Things in bold match, blue is misplaced (different order) and red is just plain old different.

Matthew:

Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Judah
Perez
Hezron
Ram
Amminadab
Nahshon
Salmon
Boaz
Obed
Jesse
David
Solomon
Rehoboam
Abijah
Asa
Jehoshaphat
Jehoram
Uzziah
Jotham
Ahaz
Hezekiah
Manasseh
Amon
Josiah
Jeconiah
Shealtiel
Zerubbabel
Abiud
Eliakim
Azor
Zadok
Akim
Eliud
Eleazar
Matthan
Jacob
Joseph
Jesus

Luke:

God
Adam
Seth
Enosh
Kenan
Mahalalel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah
Shem
Arphaxad
Cainan
Shelah
Eber
Peleg
Reu
Serug
Nahor
Terah
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Judah
Perez
Hezron
Ram
Amminadab
Nahshon
Salmon
Boaz
Obed
Jesse
David
Nathan
Mattatha
Menna
Melea
Eliakim
Jonam
Joseph
Judah
Simeon
Levi
Matthat
Jorim
Eliezer
Joshua
Er
Elmadam
Cosam
Addi
Melki
Neri
Shealtiel
Zerubbabel
Rhesa
Joanan
Joda
Josech
Semein
Mattathias
Maath
Neggai
Esli
Nehum
Amos
Mattathias
Joseph
Jannai
Melki
Levi
Matthat
Helo
Joseph
Jesus

If reader wants further confusion, he or she can read 1 Chronicles 3 to see if Uzziah was really the father of Jotham .

Matthew 1:11 "and Josiah the father of Jeconiah" are we sure about that? (1 Chronicles 3:15-16 say that Joshiah had Johanan, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah and Shallum and Jehoiakim had a son named Jehoiachin.)

Matthew 1:12 "...Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel," (1 Chronicles 3:17-18 The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive: Shealtiel his son, Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah." claims Jehoachin had several sons, while you can read in Jeremiah 22:28-30 "... Record this man [Jehoachin] as if childless ..."

Are we sure that Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel? (1 Chronicles 3:19 "The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shime..."

Matthew 1:16 "and Jacob the father of Joseph..." Hm... Luke 3:23 "... of Joseph, the son of Heli," claims something else.

Matthew 1:17 was there really 14 generations from David to Babylonian captivity? 1 Chronicles 3:9-15 says there were 18 generations.

Matthew 1:18 "...but before they came together..." So can someone tell me what is the point of this tiresome genealogy if it is false altogether? So why claim Joseph is the father of Jesus when it supposed to be Holy Spirit?

Matthew 1:19 "Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man..." is there ever a righteous man? Ecclesiastes 7:20: "There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins."

Matthew 1:22-23: "All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us." Hey?!? I thought Jesus was called Jesus, what is this with Immanuel now?

Matthew 1:25: "But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son." So Marry was only virgin until she gave birth to Jesus, but then Joseph and Marry had an "union"?