Didn't the Prophet's of God kill people?
Which one of the prophets of God are you thinking of when you speak of them killing others?
I know Jesus does mention that Jerusalem is known for killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her
Luke 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
David was also a prophet and the LORD places the blame on him for killing Uriah the husband of Bathsheba. And although David did not kill Uriah with his own sword but he did have it up to have him killed by the sword of the children of Ammon by sending him to front of the war where the fighting was fierce and having his men pull back support.
And this is what the LORD said about this thing.
2 Sam 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife
to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
David, known to be a man after Gods own heart is said to have despised the LORD in this very doing, which was done to take the wife of Uriah, and the LORD continues....
2 Sam 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
And David acknowledged that he had sinned against the LORD, and here it says,
1 Kings 15:5 Because David did
that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any
thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Then there was Samuel who anointed Saul as King
The prophet Samuel did kill the king of Amalek because King Saul would not execute the LORD's wrath doing so, which war began against Amalek as mentioned much earlier here
Exodus 17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this
for a memorial in a book, and rehearse
it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Exodus 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn
that the LORD
will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. (See Deut 25:17-19)
And s when King Saul did not execute this the prophet Samuel stepped in and did so, here saying,
1 Sam 15:33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Samuel is called a seer, but prophets of old time were called seers 1 Sam 9:9 and this was in a time of eye for an eye, tooth for e tooth as one might have caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
As Jesus speaks of the same
Mat 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
Followed by "BUT I SAY UNTO YOU"...
There are two prophets mentioned here also where a specific manner of killing by them is spoken of in Revelation if any man would hurt them here
Rev 11:5 And
if any man will hurt them, fire
proceedeth out of their mouth,
and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must
in this manner be killed.
It does mention a specific manner such would be killed, and similarly here in Jeremiah it says,
Jerm 5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts,
Because ye speak this word, behold,
I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and
this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Even as he says elsewhere that he had hewn them by the prophets and even slain (or killed) them by the words of his mouth. His word is likened unto a fire, a hammer, a sword etc.
I thought I would hit a couple of them here.
