The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence by Matthew Curtis Fleischer

Author:Matthew Curtis Fleischer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Matthew Curtis Fleischer
Published: 2019-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

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1 Green, Deuteronomy, 31-32.

2 Gen. 12:7; 15:18-21.

3 Gen. 17:8; 26:3; 28:13; 46:3; Exod. 3:8; 13:5; 23:31; 34:11-16.

4 Gen. 13:12; 16:3; 23:16-20; 25:10-11; 26:6; 33:18-19; 37:1; 50:13.

5 The “Canaanites” were a collection of nations who lived throughout the regions of Canaan, including but not limited to the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Perizzites. See Deuteronomy 7:1.

6 Deut. 2:1-19; Num. 20:14-21.

7 Gen. 15:16.

8 Gen. 15:13.

9 Gen. 15:13.

10 Lev. 18; Deut. 12:31; 18:9-13; Exod. 34:15; 2 Kings 16:3; Jer. 7:31; 19:5; Ezek. 16:20-21; 20:31.

11 Deut. 9:4-5; Lev. 18:24-25; 1 Sam. 15:1-3.

12 N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God (IVP Books, 2011), 588, Kindle.

13 Gen. 6; Exod. 7-14.

14 Deut. 9:4-6.

15 Lev. 18:3-4, 24, 30; Deut. 6:1-25; 7:1-6; 12:1; 18:9.

16 Deut. 6:1-3, 18-19, 24; 7:12; 13:17-18; 29:9; Lev. 18:5; Josh. 1:7.

17 Lev. 18:28-29; Deut. 7:4, 9-10; 29:19, 24-28; 2 Chron. 7:19-20.

18 1 Kings 14:24; 2 Kings 17:7-23; 21:10-11; Ps. 106:34-46; Ezek. 5:5-8; 23:36-39; Jer. 5:17; 7:30-32; 19:3-6; 32:30-35; Josh. 7:1; 2 Chron. 28:1-4; 33:1-6; Isa. 63:10.

19 Judg. 2:14-15, 20-21; 3:12-14; 6:1; Isa. 5:25-30; 10:5-19; 45:1; 46:11; Josh. 7:10-12; Num. 14:41-45; Jer. 5:19; 15:14; 20:4-5; 21:7; 25:8-11; 27:4-7; 34:21; Ezek. 21.

20 2 Kings 19:11; 2 Chron. 20:23; Judg. 21:10-11; Jer. 6:8; 9:16; 25:9-11; Lam. 2:5.

21 2 Kings 17:22-23; 23:27; Ps. 106:41-42; 2 Chron. 36:15-20; Jer. 9:13-16; 10:18; 16:13; 22:26; 24:10.

22 Exod. 23:23, 27-28; 33:2; Deut. 11:22-23; Josh. 3:10; 23:5.

23 Num. 14:14; Josh. 2:8-11.

24 See also Exod. 9:16 and 14:17-18.

25 Jer. 18:7-8.

26 1 Sam. 15:5-6.

27 Sprinkle, Fight, 1074.

28 Deut. 2:1-19.

29 Deut. 17:16-20; 20:1-15.

30 Deut. 20:16-17.

31 See also Judg. 7:12; 1 Sam. 13:5.

32 Num. 13:27-33; see also Exod. 3:8.

33 Num. 14:1-35.

34 Exod. 17:8; Num. 21:1-3, 21–33; Deut. 2:26-3:1; 2 Kings 18:13.

35 2 Kings 18:13; 19:35.

36 Lamb, God Behaving Badly, 968.

37 Judg. 3:12-14; 6:33; 7:12; 10:11-12; Josh. 10:1-11; 11:1-5. See generally Josh. 5-11.

38 Josh. 10:1-11.

39 Wright, The God I Don't Understand, 1498.

40 Ibid., 1565.

41 Ibid., 1562.

42 Isa. 2:1-4.

43 Prov. 6:17-19; 8:13; 15:9; 29:27; Ps. 5:4-6; Isa. 61:8.

44 Exod. 22:22-24; Jer. 32:30; Deut. 9:7; 2 Kings 17:17; Ps. 106:37-40.

45 Wright, The God I Don't Understand, 2372.

46 Jurgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, translators R. A. Wilson and John Bowden (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993), 272.

47 See also Num. 14:18

48 Boyd, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, 9275.

49 See generally N.T. Wright’s Evil and the Justice of God.

50 Wright, The God I Don't Understand, 901.

51 Exod. 2:23, 25.

52 Exodus 2:25. Likewise, when Stephen summarized the OT narrative in Acts 7 of the NT, he also specifically cited compassion as the reason why God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt. See verse 34.

53 Butler, The Skeletons in God's Closet, 4652.

54 See also Isa. 30:18; 54:7-10; 1 Sam. 12:10; 2 Kings 20:6.

55 Gen. 18:16-19:38.

56 Ezek. 16:49-50; Gen. 13:13; Isa. 3:9.

57 Interestingly, what happened next in Lot’s family confirms how thoroughly corrupt the cities had become. Shortly after fleeing Sodom, two daughters—from the most righteous family that could be found—got their father drunk and had sex with him.

58 Gen.

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