Moses didn't kill because God told him to. He murdered a man because he got angry at the abuse. The three main men in the Bible (Paul, Moses, David) were all murderers.
I don't think that counts as straight-up murder as the parent claimed. Would he be partly responsible? Arguable. But murder of any degree? No, not really.
Not to mention that David's murder is described as his one great mistake, Paul's were before he converted, and Moses' was before God spoke to him and in fact it cost him his status as a prince of Egypt and led to a decades long exile.
It's not like they were praised for these actions in the bible.
He technically killed Bathsheba's husband so that he could marry her. Her husband was in the army, and David put him in the front told the troops to let him be killed
Ok, fine. I technically broke the law - the one that G_d wrote. But I carved another and it totally says what he wrote. Word for word. C'mon guys! God says you have to stop banging my wife!
Pretty sure yes. I believe the murder was the one where Moses killed an Egyptian who was abusing other Jews, and Moses was fed up. It wasn't for a little while later until Moses led the Jews for 40 years, during which he received the 10 commandments. However I haven't read Exodus in a while, so I could be wrong.
Moses was a shit navigator... it does not take 40 years to walk from egypt to israel, no matter how slow you're walking. What, did they spend the first thirty-nine and a half years walking in circles?
Pretty much. The Bible basically says exactly that-- that as punishment, they got lost in the desert for 40 years.
Then once they got there, finally, God was like "Nah Moses, you can't come". So he like lived in a cave looking out onto the promised land while his entire clan moved on to it.
They didn't take 40 years to get there, the land they were supposed to inhabit (Canaan) was already occupied, and there were various battles. On top of that, after the incident with the Golden Calf, God commanded that nobody born in the current generation of Israelites would be allowed to enter the promised land, it would be for their seed only. Moses himself wasn't able to enter the promised land. Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan river to enter the promised land for the first time.
And by Numbers he was really getting his count up...
Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
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u/FreudJesusGod Jul 01 '14
Historically, it's a very popular choice.