The Most Gruesome Books from the Bible

The Bible is the most controversial books every written, and it causes debates every time it is mentioned. Of course, there is the conflict between religion and science, there are certain contradictions and theories about it, and so on.

There are numerous stories told in the Bible, and in what follows I am going to present you the fieriest of them all. Let’s get things started.

Most of the story presented in Exodus is repeated from the first five Books of the Bible, called the Pentateuch or Torah. It tells the story of Moses, and according to many, this one is the easiest to understand, and the most interesting book in the Bible. This book presents the Ten Plagues of Egypt: blood, frogs, lice, flies, and the death of all livestock save the Israelites’, boils and sores, hail, locusts, darkness and the death of all firstborn male Egyptian children. The Pharaoh suffers each and one of these plagues, and it seems that they can only make him tougher. He finally decides to let the Israelites go when his firstborn son dies.

God helps Moses and his people escape, by blocking the Egyptians and the Israelites. Then the moment with the Red Sea soon follows, where Moses splits up the waters and the armies of the Pharaoh all drown. It seems that God did all of these to make the Israelites believe in Him, but they didn’t even after these events. Some say that the place where this happened was either the modern Gulf of Aqaba, or the Suez Canal. Moses is the one who stops God from punishing the Israelites for not believing in Him.  He even wanted to completely obliterate the Israelites, but Moses begged Him not to do it. In the end, Moses is not allowed to enter in the Promise Land, because he struck water from the rock twice, not once, as God said.

This one is the most difficult and the most bizarre book from the Bible. The first chapter is in Hebrew, the following six are in Aramic, and they all tell the story of Daniel, who is an exiled Jew in the court of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, which is the modern day Iraq. The king exiled all the Jews with the exception of Daniel, who was an expert on the Hebrew God. Daniel had three friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and all three of them were persecuted because they did not want to bow to a 90 foot high gold idol. The king ordered that the three of them to be thrown in a very hot furnace, but they did not burn. They got out of it without any damage, being accompanied by Jesus.

Daniel is later thrown into a den of lions, because the other wisemen were envious of him. God makes the lions gentle, so they do not attack him. In chapter 5, they continue to defy God even further, by giving a wild party, and by drinking from the cups stolen from Solomon’s Temple, in Jerusalem. Soon afterwards, the hand of God appears out of nowhere and writes a warning on the wall which only Daniel can read, which says that the kingdom will be destroyed. The kingdom does get destroyed the following day. However, the most interesting story takes place in chapter 7, where Daniel dreams of a lion, a bear, a leopard, and a beast with iron teeth, which apparently will be the four major kingdoms in the future. The historians have analyzed this numerous times, trying to think of the possible kingdoms which might rule the world.

In this book, we get to see the wrath of God once again. He punishes the people for the fact that they turned against him, and he does this by sending 12 judges. They are called Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon and Samson, the later being the most famous of them all. Thousands of people die because of them, as each fight against their enemies. Othniel fights against Cushan-Rishathaim and his Aramites and wins, Ehud assassinates Eglon, and Shamgar kills 600 Philistines. Samson fights against Philistines and thanks to the power of God, he manages to kill 1,000 of them in a mountain pass. Think about the movie 300, only that instead of 300 soldiers, there is a single man who fights against his enemies.

Delilah then tricks him to allow her to cut his hair, but he does not realize that by doing that, she will strip him of his power. The Philistines then capture him, blind him, and turn him into a slave, becoming an amusement for them. Samson then prays to God asking for his strength back, and God gives him his power back. He then destroys a temple by breaking its pillars, killing numerous people but dying as well.