"Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives ...
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out." --
2 Chronicles 21:14-15
Second Chronicles for Skeptics
The Bible brags about the strangest things. Why exaggerate the number of people and animals killed by God? Here
are some examples from 2 Chronicles.
Solomon kills 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep when dedicating the temple. 7:5
God helps Abijah kill 500,000 Israelites. 13:15-20
In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa kills one million Ethiopians. 14:8-13
Pekah kills 120,000 people in one day "because they had forsaken the
Lord God of their fathers." 28:6-8
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." 36:16-17