The Biblical Jihaad

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The Biblical Jihad

Posted By: Arif Shamim

Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2004, at 3:50 p.m.

From "Thus Speaks The Bible". If you can't compare the narratives in the Book of Joshua with the concept of JIHAD in the Quraan, let me know. I will try my best, with all my limited knowledge , to do it for you . Further, if the Book of Joshua is not enough for you to have an insight of "Biblical Jihad, let me know. I will do my best to take you through bible where you will find many Barbaric statements like followings:

The Book of Numbers

31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

The Book of 1 Samuel

30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

The Book of 2 Chronicles

25:12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

Arif Shamim

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THE BOOK OF JOSHUA

[The fallacious Geocentric theory. Prophet Joshua's utter destruction of Amalekites and other tribes in ancient Palestine. Events until the death of Prophet Joshua. Compare the narratives in the Book of Joshua with the concept of JIHAD in the Quraan which is ordained only against the attacking combatants and persecutors]

1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy
life: --------.

1:18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, ------ he shall be PUT TO DEATH: ----.

5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the SECOND TIME.

5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, ----, [then] a land that FLOWS WITH MILK AND HONEY.

5:13 ------, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, ------ ?

5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, -----[Would Joshua worship other than God?]

6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and THEY TOOK THE CITY.

6:21 And they UTTERLY DESTROYED all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

6:24 And they BURNT THE CITY with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel STONED him with stones, and BURNED THEM with fire, after they had STONED THEM WITH STONES.

7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the FIERCENESS of his anger. -----.

8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: LAY THEE AN AMBUSH for the city behind it.

8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

8:7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and SEIZE upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

8:8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall SET THE CITY ON FIRE: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

8:18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city. [Ah! The incessant miracles]

8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and SET THE CITY ON FIRE.

8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, ---- , and they had no power to flee this way or that way: -----.

8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and SLEW THE MEN OF AI.

8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they LET NONE OF THEM REMAIN OR ESCAPE.

8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them,
and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were TWELVE THOUSAND, even all the men of Ai.

8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

8:29 And the king of Ai he HANGED ON A TREE until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

10:10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, ------.

10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: -----.

10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, SUN, STAND THOU STILL upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

10:13 And the SUN STOOD STILL, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

[Countless people have been persecuted and burnt alive by the Church for saying that it is the earth that revolves around the sun!]

10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, ------.

10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THAT BREATHED, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even AS THE SAND that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.

24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

Sajjad