Have you ever read bible verses and come across a very strange or unusual verse?
A user asked the forum, “What is the most unusual bible verse?” Here are the top responses.
JUDGES 3:20
“Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace and said, ‘I have a message from God for you.’
As the king rose from his seat, Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into the king’s belly. Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed over it. Judges 3:20”
SONG OF SONGS 4:5
“‘Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.’ Song of Songs 4:5”
JONAH
“My favorite is the very end of Jonah. Jonah is in the desert but finds a tiny tree with a gourd to give him shade. After a bit, the gourd withered and died, and Jonah must suffer in the sun again.
Jonah cusses out the gourd.
Right then, God came down to Jonah and chastised him: ‘Jonah, that gourd existed by no labor of your own.'”
GENESIS 27:11
“Genesis 27:11 is my favorite. ‘My brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.'”
GENESIS 25:30
“He said to Jacob, ‘Let me eat some of that red stuff because I’m exhausted.’ Genesis 25:30. Something about how this is worded makes it seem strange.”
EXODUS 21:20-21
“‘If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two since the slave is his property.’ Exodus 21:20-21”
SONG OF SOLOMON 5:4
My personal favorite is Song of Solomon 5:4. The web translation is ‘My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.’”
VERSES 9-21
“Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, ‘O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.’ The Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats.
Then the Lord spoke, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, except that thou proceed to three. Five is right out.
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.’ Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, Verses 9-21.”
PROVERBS 27:14
“‘He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, shall be counted a curse to him.’ Proverbs 27:14.”
JUDGES 4:21
“Barak routs Sisera’s army and sends him fleeing for his life to the tent of Heber, trusting in an alliance they had. Jael, Heber’s wife, invites Sisera in and encourages him to lie down and rest.
‘But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.: Judges 4:21 is One of the most metal verses in the Bible.”
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
“’12 This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13 On that day, the Lord will strike people with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.’ Zechariah 14:12-13.”
PROVERBS 21:19
“Proverbs 21:19. ‘It’s better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.'”
MATTHEW 5:48
“‘All day, you gotta go all out to be good, jalike you Faddah in da sky, he always goes all out to be good.’ Matthew 5:48.”
MATTHEW 4:3
“So Satan went by him a presha him. He told Jesus, ‘So, what? You God Boy for real, kine? Den tell dese rocks hea for some food.’ Matthew 4:3.”
PSALMS 38:7
“‘For my loins are full of inflammation, and there is no soundness in my flesh.’ Psalms 38:7.”
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