- Eve eats forbidden apple: God condemns women to painful childbirth and to subservience to their husbands.
Genesis 3
- Adam eats forbidden apple: God condemns men to labor and mortality.
Genesis 3:16
- Humanity is wicked in thought and deed: God floods the earth.
Genesis 6:7
- The residents of Sodom and Gomorrah are wicked: God destroys them with fire and brimstone.
Genesis 19:24
- Lot’s wife looks back upon Sodom and Gomorrah: God turns her into a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:26
- Pharaoh refuses to free the Israelites: God visits ten plagues upon Egypt, including one that kills firstborn Egyptian sons.
Exodus 7:15–11:7
- Shelomith’s son blasphemes: God commands “all Israel” to stone him to death.
Leviticus 24:11-14
- Hittites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites, and Amorites threaten to set a bad example for the conquering Israelites: God commands the Israelites to “utterly destroy” them, saving “nothing that breatheth.”
Deuteronomy 20:16–17
- David takes a census: God sends a plague that kills 70,000 Israelites.
2 Sam 24:10–15
- Forty-two children of Beth-el call the prophet Elisha a “bald-head”: God sends two she-bears to kill them.
2 Kings 2:23–24
- Samaria “rebels against God”: God commands that they “fall by the sword,” that “their infants shall be dashed in pieces,” and that “their women with child shall be ripped up.”
Hosea 13:16
