78. Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: II Kings 9:36
79. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days. II Kings 13:3
80. And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land. II Kings 15:5
81. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. II Kings 17:18
82. And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them. II Kings 17:25
83. Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. II Kings 18:25
84. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. II Kings 19:7
85. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. II Kings 21:12
86. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets. II Kings 24:2
87. For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. I Chronicles 5:22
88. And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. I Chronicles 6:15
89. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. I Chronicles 13:10
90. David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer. I Chronicles 14:16
But then in 1993 an amazing discovery shed new light on what the Bible calls ancient Israel’s greatest king. Gila Cook was finishing up some survey work with an assistant at Tel Dan, a Biblical site in the far north of Israel today ... But something caught her eye: a stone with what appeared to be random scratches but was actually an ancient inscription ... Cook had found a fragment of a Victory Stele ... It celebrates the conquest of Israel. It boasts: ‘I slew mighty kings who harnessed thousands of chariots and thousands of horsemen. I killed the king of the House of David’. Bible’s Buried Secrets 2/2
91. Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. I Chronicles 21:12
92. Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. II Chronicles 13:15
93. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died. II Chronicles 13:20
94. And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity. II Chronicles 15:6
95. Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee. II Chronicles 18:22
96. And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. II Chronicles 20:22
97. Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: II Chronicles 21:14
98. For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. II Chronicles 24:24
99. Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him [Ahaz] into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. II Chronicles 28:5
100. For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. II Chronicles 28:6
101. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. II Chronicles 34:25
102. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. II Chronicles 36:17
103. So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. Nehemiah 9:24
104. And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Job 1:19
105. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he [Job] is in thine hand; but save his life. Job 2:6
The Book of Job: it asks a profound question: why does God allow good people to suffer? Professor Robert Winston, The Story of God