and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had," and stoned them
to death, and "burnt them with fire."

In the First Book of Chronicles the devil persuades David to take a
census of Israel. And again Jahweh acted in blind wrath and injustice,
for he sent a pestilence, which slew seventy thousand of the people
for David's fault. _But David he allowed to live._ In Samuel we
learn how Jahweh, because of an attack upon the Israelites four
hundred years before the time of speaking, ordered Saul to destroy
the Amalekites, "man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep,
camel and ass." And Saul did as he was directed; but because he
spared King Agag, the Lord deprived him of the crown and made David
king in his stead.


The Immorality Of Jehovah

In the Second Book of Chronicles Jehovah gets Ahab, King of Israel,
killed by putting lies into the mouths of the prophets:

And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab, king of Israel, that
he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake, saying
after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and
said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth
of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,
and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.