Some forgotten teachings on violence from the Old Testament.
Genesis 6:11
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.Job 16:17
yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.Psalm 11:5
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates.Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.Isaiah 53:9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.Ezekiel 7:23
Prepare chains, because the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of violence.Jonah 3:8
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.Zephaniah 1:9
On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.Malachi 2:16
I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment.
Again, this is just a small sample from the Old Testament. But even from this small sample we can see that the living God associates the violence of humanity with corruption, impurity, wickedness, deceit, wrongness, evil, injustice … things which are condemned by God.
Curious Christian 