Question:
Funny stories in the Old Testament?
Sabrina H
2006-11-14 07:42:50 UTC
Best answer goes to whoever lists the most, repeats not included. Please include quotes and sources.

I'll get one out of the way to give an example.

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In 2 Kings 2, we find this horrific story:

"(Elisha) went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, 'Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!' When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys."

http://www.pikevillefirstchristianchurch.org/Sermons/Sermon20010624.html
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Fifteen answers:
jaguarboy
2006-11-14 07:52:50 UTC
Ok, i got 2 good ones. The story aboout Balaal and the talking donkey at Numbers 22; 28- 35

Also Absalom getting stuck in the tree from his hair at 2 Samuel 18; 9



Here's some more doozies; Jacob dressing up and getting hairy like Esau in Genesis 27; 15 - 40

Israelites disobeying Moses about the manna provision and getting worms in their food at Exodus 16; 19 and 20

My personal favorite is Exodus 32; 24 where Aaron is explaining to Moses how he took the jewelry from the people , threw it into the fire , and the golden calf happened to come out on its own. What he really did is mentioned at verse 4.
ronnysox60
2006-11-14 16:08:41 UTC
I dunno why people do not see God's humor it is all over the place.



How about when the Israelites were being given free food and their clothes not wearing out and got free airconditioning (could in the day fire at night) and these troublsome complainers howled for meat, so God burys then up to their noses in quail. ya gotta see that is funny, I know if I were God I would be laughing.



btch btch btch,, here take that. got anything else you want cuz there is no limit to the depth I can bless you with things, ya thirsty maybe cuz i'm dieine to see how long you can tread water. Or Jona he ended up getting to Nineveh 3 days early because he went the wrong way,, blah ther ya go Jonah how ya like the ride, now ya gonna do what I ask cuz next place you go might be in separate parcels and then I'll have to do a miracle and put you back together.



God's a funny guy as long as you are not the one crossing Him, some of you might want to think on that.
lavinia
2016-10-04 03:04:40 UTC
confident God stopped Abraham earlier he easily killed his son. It easily had 2 purposes. One to attempt the faithfulness of Abraham. and it is likewise a forshadowing of what God DID do for us on the bypass. That lady although is nuts. i'm a hundred% useful that God did no longer tell her to kill her teenagers. She is the two insane or grew to become into on drugs and it is the cleaver ploy she is attempting to apply to be deemed insane so she doesnt bypass to the final inhabitants in detention center. those women folk LOVE baby killers. She wont final 6 months. ---- John D. you're way off. Being a Christian student i understand that there are some that could say that yet they make up decrease than one million% and that i does no longer evaluate then Christian or Jewish. Abraham grew to become right into a fantasy. Please! no person with any sense rather believes this and that they definately don't have ANY information. it particularly is barely their hypothesis.
Suzanne: YPA
2006-11-14 07:52:55 UTC
1) The story of Balaam and the talking donkey always cracks me up: Numbers 22:22-40.



2) The story of Abraham interceding for Sodom is a good one, too. Can you imagine telling God that He should reconsider? Not just once, but six times! Now THAT'S a brave man! Genesis 18:16-33.



Peace.
ysk
2006-11-14 19:15:16 UTC
My favorite is Ovadyah's responce to Elijiah. And Kings I 2 sounds better in an Italian accent- it's a nice hit list.
Marcus R.
2006-11-14 08:04:14 UTC
Of course one will find horror in the Bible, its about a vengeful being. However with the advent of the son of God being made man, while there still is no humor offered, there is now a hope for better things to happen. This may explain why some people have no sense of humor too.
AngelsFan
2006-11-14 07:57:03 UTC
#1 they weren't small boys ,they were seminary students who were mocking the bodily ascension of Elijah.Because Elisha was his protege,they were saying,"Go up too old baldy! Let's see you go up in a firery chariot too,grandpa" That's would be the modern translation.You don't screw with the prophets,especially those two.

I like the stories of Jael hammering the nail through the guys head while he slept in "Judges" (story of Deborah),Ehud ripping the guts out of the King of Moab (also in Judges).There are lots of cool stories all through the Bible......
anonymous
2006-11-14 07:47:12 UTC
i like the plague of the frogs in exodus. the entire country of egypt is overrun with endless frogs, and the egyptian magicians try to downplay moses and call up MORE frogs to show that they could do the exact same thing.
King
2006-11-14 07:46:00 UTC
just a sec

IN Gen. ch34

Some of Jacobs son show their treachery.

They get Hamor and Shechem to get circumcised (for a women)

then when their "schmeckels" are hurting Jacobs sons go in kill the men and plunder the town.

More irony then funny but still noteworthy.
anonymous
2006-11-14 07:47:46 UTC
"When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man." Genesis 32:25



God cheated in a wrestling match!
EyeLovesJesus
2006-11-14 07:59:04 UTC
Hello Sabrina H.. :)



These are not funny but sad.. :(



Exodus 1



8 ¶ Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.



9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:



10 come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.



11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raam'ses.



12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.



13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:



14 and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.



15 ¶ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Pu'ah;



16 and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.



17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.



18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?



19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.



20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.



21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.



22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.



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Matthew 2



The Slaying of the Infants



13 ¶ And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.



14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:



15 and was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Hos. 11.1



16 ¶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.



17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,



18 In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,

and would not be comforted, because they are not. Jer. 31.15



19 ¶ But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,



20 saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.



21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.



22 But when he heard that Archela'us did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:



23 and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. Is. 11.1--0.1



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In Jesus Most Precious Name..

With Love..In Christ.. :)
anonymous
2006-11-14 07:44:46 UTC
I like the story of the floating axehead.
jedi1josh
2006-11-14 07:45:15 UTC
Great story.
anonymous
2006-11-14 07:47:51 UTC
balaam and his talking ***
anonymous
2006-11-14 07:44:51 UTC
dont know any


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