50 Traumatic Events in the Bible

1. Neighboring kings go to war and capture Lot; Abram fights to get him back (Gen.14)

2. Israel defeats the Amalekites (Ex.17:8-15)

3. Vengeance against the Midianites (Num.31:1-8)

4. Israel destroys Jericho (Joshua 6)

5. Israel destroys Ai (Joshua 7)

6. Israel completely destroys the Canaanites (Joshua 11)

7. Israel again defeats the Canaanites (Judge 4)

8. Civil war (Israel wipes out the Benjamites, Judge 20; 2 Sam.2-4; 13-18; 2 Chr.13)

9. Israel defeats the Philistines (1 Sam.7:3-11; 13-14; 17; 2Sam.21:15-22)

10. Judah versus Egypt (2 Kings 23:29)

11. Israel enslaved (Ex.1:8-11)

12. The Exodus from Egypt (Ex.4-14)

13. Famine (2 Sam.21:1; 1 Ki.18:2; 2 Ki.4:38; 2Ki.6:25)

14. The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (2 KI.25)

15. The Exile (Lamentations)

16. Slaughter of Israelite baby boys (Ex.1:22)

17. Slaughter of Egypt's firstborn children (Ex. 12:29)

18. Slaughter of boys two years old and under by Herod (Matt 2:16-18)

19. Mass murder of 400 prophets of Baal (1Ki. 18)

20. Abimelech murders his 70 brothers "on one stone" (Judges 9)

21. Levites killed 3,000 of their brothers, friends, and neighbors (Ex.32:25-29)

22. Cain’s murdering his brother Abel (Gen. 4:8)

23. Joseph being captured by his brothers and sold (Gen.37:12-36)

24. Dinah raped (Gen.34:2)

25. Tamar raped (2 Sam 13)

26. The Levite’s Concubine is gang-raped (Judges 19-21)

27. Job’s losses and physical suffering (Job)

28. David slept with Bathsheba and then murdered her husband (2 Sam.11)

29. David lost a child (2 Sam.12:16-19)

30. The Apostles flogged (Acts 5:40-42)

31. John the Baptist imprisoned and beheaded (Matt.14:1-10)

32. Jesus mocked, flogged, and crucified (Matt. 27:27-56)

33. Judas commits suicide (Matt.27:1-10)

34. Saul's witness to Stephen's stoning (Acts 7:57-58)

35. Ananias and Sapphira dropping dead (Acts 5:1-11)

36. Peter imprisoned (Acts 12:5-17)

37. The Church widespread persecution (Acts 8:1-3)

38. Paul and Silas imprisoned (Acts 16:14-40)

39. Paul's suffering: beaten, flogged, stoned, sleepless (2 Cor. 11:23-27)

40. David escapes being murdered by Saul several times (1 Samuel 18:11,17,25; 19:1,10,11)

41. David chased across Judean countryside by Saul (2 Sam.20:30-33; Ps. 55)

42. King Saul slaughters 70 priests, their families, and town (1 Sam.22)

43. Moses murdered an Egyptian (Ex. 2:11-14)

44. Absalom raped 10 of his father David's concubines (1 Sam. 16:20-23)