Tragic deaths in the Bible

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Lanolin

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List the most tragic/worst ones in your opinion...Jesus crucifixtion excepted.
Some come to mind

Abel...slain by his own brother
Samson...crushed by pillar he pushed over along with Philistines
Jezebel....fell out of palace and blood licked up by dogs
Absolom...hair stuck in a tree
John the Baptist....beheaded on a platter
 
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Lanolin said:
List the most tragic/worst ones in your opinion...Jesus crucifixtion excepted.
Some come to mind

Abel...slain by his own brother
Samson...crushed by pillar he pushed over along with Philistines
Jezebel....fell out of palace and blood licked up by dogs
Absolom...hair stuck in a tree
John the Baptist....beheaded on a platter
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Tragic, or ignoble? Abel's death was righteous, to my thinking. Samson's glorious. Jezebel's ignoble. Absalom's well-deserved. John's - wicked/corrupt/cowardly (murder by Herod and his brood).

If by tragic, you mean lives could have been spared if things had only been a little different...

The men of Shechem, who might have been spared if they punished Shechem to begin with, or properly repented to Jacob for his crime.
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, who were consumed by God for offering unauthorised fire.
Achan and his family, who were stoned for stealing from God.
200 philistines, who were harvested for skins by King David as a brideprice for princess Michal (if only they'd converted to Israel, their lives would have been spared)
The two groups of 50 men who came to arrest Elijah (and were burned up by fire from heaven due to their captain's lack of reverence)
 
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Tragic, or ignoble? Abel's death was righteous, to my thinking. Samson's glorious. Jezebel's ignoble. Absalom's well-deserved. John's - wicked/corrupt/cowardly (murder by Herod and his brood).

If by tragic, you mean lives could have been spared if things had only been a little different...

The men of Shechem, who might have been spared if they punished Shechem to begin with, or properly repented to Jacob for his crime.
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, who were consumed by God for offering unauthorised fire.
Achan and his family, who were stoned for stealing from God.
200 philistines, who were harvested for skins by King David as a brideprice for princess Michal (if only they'd converted to Israel, their lives would have been spared)
The two groups of 50 men who came to arrest Elijah (and were burned up by fire from heaven due to their captain's lack of reverence)
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I agree with you that the death of Samson was glorious. The guy was a warrior and caused the deaths of the enemy. It was not an altogether a bad way to go out.
 
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What about Onan? His death was pretty tragic, right? Giving the business to Tamar and then....yeah. ☹️
 
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Lanolin said:
List the most tragic/worst ones in your opinion...Jesus crucifixtion excepted.
Some come to mind

Abel...slain by his own brother
Samson...crushed by pillar he pushed over along with Philistines
Jezebel....fell out of palace and blood licked up by dogs
Absolom...hair stuck in a tree
John the Baptist....beheaded on a platter
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I’ve always been troubled by “Uriah the hittites “death. A just and decent Israelite murdered by his king who he was so loyal to. And the way it happened wow so harsh and really devious

he was so dedicated to God he wouldn’t even go into his wife bekng tricked by David he stayed with the ark instead and that eventually got him killed when David’s plots to cover his own sins didn’t work

poor guy all he did was be loyal to the lord and David
 
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Rachel...died in childbirth
Shechem...killed by fiance Dinah's brothers
Lots wife....looked back at Sodom and Gomorrah
all the male children under two in Bethlehem ....slaughtered by King Herod
 
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He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.’ But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
 
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Fake death...Joseph...brothers said he was eaten by wild goats to his dad but he was really taken into slavery in Egypt
Jobs entire family, except for his wife who then said to curse God and Job was so upset and grieved that he wanted to die himself
Uzzah...killed for (accidentally?) touching the ark of the covenant. Must have been a huge shock
 
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The bible does not say either way. Judas is the only apostle that Jesus specifically called his friend, and this was at the moment of betrayal.
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I thought he called his other disciples friends too when he said I know longer call you servants but friends. I mean plural...friendS as you are allowed to have more than one....
 
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Lanolin said:
I thought he called his other disciples friends too when he said I know longer call you servants but friends. I mean plural...friendS as you are allowed to have more than one....
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Yes, Jesus addressed them as a group, but Judas was the only one that Jesus addressed as an individual.
 
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tourist said:
Yes, Jesus addressed them as a group, but Judas was the only one that Jesus addressed as an individual.
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Well not every single thing Jesus ever said was recorded in the gospels.

I recall he called Peter satan at one point.
 
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Adam and Eve. Had they only obeyed God, they would have led the most idillic lives. Instead, they eventually died.
 
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Anais and Sapphira both dropping dead at church was rather tragic, they would have lived had they not blatantly lied.
 
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Naomis husband and Ruth first husband...both died in the famine
Haaman ....hanged on his own gallows
Egyptian chariot riders....drowned in the Red Sea
Goliath...stoned by David though he kinda deserved it for mocking God
the two kids who mocked Elisha...eaten by bears
pigs...demons went into them and they ran off a cliff
 
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Uriah the Hittite. His murder is probably the most scumbag-move in the bible.
I hadn't read the whole bible before I saw "Man in the Iron Mask" as a kid, but that part of the movie where DiCaprio's character pulls that same move as King David- it really stood out to me.
It was very difficult to not think of David as a scumbag for a long time... but when I think about the circumstances and the aftermath he had to live with, I suppose he paid the price.

I have no doubt Uriah has a good reward in heaven. I find it very interesting that his name is mentioned in the geneology of Jesus. It seems odd to bring up that detail in the middle of a Geneology.
 
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Uriah the Hittite. His murder is probably the most scumbag-move in the bible.
I hadn't read the whole bible before I saw "Man in the Iron Mask" as a kid, but that part of the movie where DiCaprio's character pulls that same move as King David- it really stood out to me.
It was very difficult to not think of David as a scumbag for a long time... but when I think about the circumstances and the aftermath he had to live with, I suppose he paid the price.

I have no doubt Uriah has a good reward in heaven. I find it very interesting that his name is mentioned in the geneology of Jesus. It seems odd to bring up that detail in the middle of a Geneology.
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did David actually get some hit men or he was he just hoping Uriah would die in battle.
Might have to read that passage again
Uriah didnt have any children with Bathsheba?

David and Bathshebas first child did die anyway. That was a kind of punishment...or karma if you look at it that way.
 
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