2 Kings 3:
>26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom; but they could not. 27 Then he took his firstborn son who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And great wrath came upon Israel, so they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
Wow, so child sacrifice actually works?
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Yes. The Jews practice it to this day.
Yes
I think in the early bible it's portrayed as the Israelites and their god vs others and their god(s). The notion that Israel's God is the only real one and no others exist came later
it's called a metaphor, something you're apparently too autistic to comprehend.
I'd interpret this as saying that the king sacrificed his son which then fuelled the rage of the Moabites - it showed how passionate their king was, and it perhaps suggested to them what would happen to all of their children if they didn't get the Israelites to leave. So they then convinced the Israelites to leave, probably by arming the entire city making their army much larger.
>be Josiah, king of Judah
>Pharaoh Necho II politely asks permission to walk through your territory and fuck up the Babylonians
>protip: you don't like the Babylonians and have everything to gain from letting them and the Egyptians kill each other
>refuse him
>Necho II wrecks your army, kills you, and makes your kingdom a vassal state to Egypt
Literal retard
A metaphor for what?
Child sacrifice.
Child sacrifice is a metaphor for child sacrifice?
It works when your "god" is Chemosh, the Ba'al of the Moabites (aka allah).
The king felt that his demon god, Chemosh, was furious with him and his country, and was not defending them against the Edomites and the rather secular Hebrews (had not Jehoshaphat been a godly king, Elisha the prophet would have had no role in this drama whatsoever).
After the king of the Moabites lost most of his army, was on the brink of annihilation, and his last ditch effort to break through and kill the Edomite king failed, he sacrificed his son to his demon god, Chemosh (aka allah).
The Hebrews, seeing such penury, left the battlefield without finishing basically the slaughter. Elisha's prophecy had already been completed, and there was nothing more to do.
Christ, what is this fan fiction tier interpretation?
Everyone knows 'Allah' is the generic arabic for 'God' - there is literally and historically no link between what you are proposing in those completely asinine assertions of yours.
Chemosh, the Ba'al of the Moabites, is Hubal.
Hubal is Mo's father's god.
Hubal became allah; Hubal never left the kaaba.
>'Allah' is the generic arabic for 'God'
This is a modern bullshit lie.
If, as some believe but others deny, the linguistic root or stem of Allah may share a common origin with other gods of the Fertile Crescent such as Baal or El, this does not logically imply that they are all the same God. A common linguistic stem does not logically imply a common deity: otherwise Allah is Baal and Baal is Allah or Elohim is Baal and Baal is Elohim.
In pre-Islamic times, “Allah” was a pagan name for a pagan deity among pagan Arabians.
In Southern Arabia, “Allah” was the name of the moon god who was married to the sun goddess. Together they had three daughters who were called the “daughters of Allah.”
Throughout Arabia, Allah was viewed as only one of the “High” gods who were worshiped at the Kabah in Mecca.
The “daughters of Allah” were worshiped by the tribe into which Muhammad was born.
The Qur’an does not explain who “Allah” was because Muhammad assumed that the pagan Arabians already knew who he was. He was right. Allah was one of the 360 pagan gods worshiped at the Kabah!
As “Allah” slowly became a generic name in the Middle East and in Asia for deity in general, other religions used it as an Arabic name for their gods. But this does not logically imply that they believed that the god of Islam was their god. The name may have been the same but the concept different.
Your assertion that the God of the Jews is the same as the God of the Arabs is asinine.
No it isn't.
Yes, yes it is.
>In Southern Arabia, “Allah” was the name of the moon god who was married to the sun goddess. Together they had three daughters who were called the “daughters of Allah.”
Source?
During the nineteenth century, Amaud, Halevy and Glaser went to Southern Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean, Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions which were subsequently translated. In the 1940’s, the archeologists G. Caton Thompson and Carleton S. Coon made some amazing discoveries in Arabia. During the 1950’s, Wendell Phillips, W.F. Albright, Richard Bower and others excavated sites at Qataban, Timna, and Marib (the ancient capital of Sheba). Thousands of inscriptions from walls and rocks in Northern Arabia have also been collected. Reliefs and votive bowls used in worship of the “daughters of Allah” have also been discovered. The three daughters, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat are sometimes depicted together with Allah the Moon-god represented by a crescent moon above them. The archeological evidence demonstrates that the dominant religion of Arabia was the cult of the Moon-god.
In an attempt to appease the Meccans, buy some time and bring relief to his followers from hostility, Muhammad one night had a revelation found in Surah 53:19-22 which originally read and deduced as, "Have you thought of al-Lat and al-Uzza and Manat the third, the other; these are the exalted ones whose intercession (as muhammad prostrated along with other muslims,pagans and “jinns” after reciting the verse,{sahih 6,60,385}) is approved."
Al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat were three female deities, known as daughters of Allah. By this revelation Muhammad acknowledged these deities as worthy of worship and whose intercession in heaven was to be sought. Acknowledging these deities had the desired effect. Later (as it screwsup the tribal israeli yahwist concept of monotheism ), the angel Gabriel chastised Muhammad for uttering these verses and informed him that Satan, not Allah, had put these words in Muhammad's mouth and they were” imaginary” beings idolized by earlier arabic gen(q 53:23). Thus, these verses are infamously known as the Satanic Verses ) (Quran22:51:53). (Sahih 006, 060, 385.)( al-Tabari Vol. 6 p107–109)
Arabic Christians call God Allah, Syriacs use either El or Elahi. but they understand him to be the trinity of the old and new testaments unlike the muzzies.
Christians commit adultery and murder as well. Doesn't make it right. I'm sure God knows who's talking to Him, and who isn't, under whatever name. (like Jesus, a Hellenized version of Yeshoshua).
Think about it, is there anything more valuable you can sacrifice?
Adultery and murder are both mortally sinful.
Sounds like Israel was disturbed/horrified by the act and fled.
Yahweh is the true deity. The existence of other deities isn't denied. It's one of the reoccurring elements of the Old Testament. That the Israelites were unfaithful and worshiped false gods and idols. Baal, Asherah, Moloch, Dagon, and others. There had to be something to it given how regularly they fell into paganism. Even the wisest person ever, King Solomon, wasn't immune to the temptations of foreign gods. These false gods were very likely demons disguised as "angels of light."
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