yahwehyadayada

I need some bible verses that show cruelty to children or disregard for children. Any help would be appreciated.

Orestes

Read numbers 31 .

oneofshibumi

Children and daughters

1. Lot [the just and righteous (2 Pet. 2:7-8)] offers his daughters to a crowd of angel rapists. Gen. 19:8.

2. A drunken Lot impregnates his daughters. Gen. 19:30-36.

3. Judah impregnates his daughter in law (Tamar). Gen.38:16, 18

4. After Judah pays Tamar for her services, he is told that she "played the harlot" and "is with child by whoredom." When Judah hears this, he says, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." Gen.38:24

5. Instructions for selling your daughter Ex.21:7

6. Baby girls are twice as dirty as baby boys. Lev.12:1-8

7. Unchaste daughters of priests must be burnt to death. Lev.21:9

8. Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God "delivers into your hands," but keep the women for yourself. Dt.20:13-15

9. Jephthah sacrifices his daughter to God. Jg.11:29-39

10 Ezra tells the men that they must abandon their "strange" wives and children if they want to avoid God's wrath. Ezra 10:2-3, 10-12

10. If you misbehave, God will make your daughters "commit whoredom" and your wife "commit adultery." Hos.4:13

11. God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and "their women with child shall be ripped up." Hos.13:16

12. Abandon your wife and children for Jesus and he'll give your a big reward. Mt.19:29, Mk.10:29

13. "Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days." Why? Does God especially hate pregnant and nursing women? Mt.24:19, Mk.13:17

14. Peter and his partners (James and John) abandon their wives and children to follow Jesus. Lk.5:11

15. 89. Peter describes Lot, who in Gen.19:8 offers his two virgin daughters to a crowd of angel rapers and later (19:30-38) impregnates them, as a "righteous man." 2 Pet.2:8

MortalWombat

Isn't there also a verse that says children who are disobedient should be stoned to death?

MortalWombat

Ah, here it is, in Deuteronomy:

21:18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

21:19
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

21:20
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

21:21
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

queue

If you go to <a href="http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.html" target="_blank">The Skeptic's Annotated Bible </a> and select the Cruelty link, it will give you plenty of verses.

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13-14
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

cartman

Psalm 137:9
Happy shall they be who take your little ones
and dash them against the rock! (NRSV)

nogods4me

let us not forget the 42 "young men" that were mauled by the bears for mocking the prophet.
2Kings2 IIRC.

ex-preacher

The supposed world flood involved the killing by drowning of untold numbers of babies and children (plus the unborn).

Also the 10th plague - the killing of all the first born of Egypt - applied to children. How many hundreds of thousands of children killed by this alone.

Also, in the conquest of Canaan, the Israelites were instructed to put everyone - men, women, children, even animals - to the sword.

Thank the IPU, none of this really happenned.

yahwehyadayada

Thanks to all who replied.