“Then Do’eg the Edomi, who had been put in charge of Sha’ul’s servants, answered, ‘I saw Yishai’s son come to Nov, to Achimelekh the son of Achituv.'”-1 Samuel 22:9
King Saul had just finished chewing out his war council for betraying him when verse 9 tells us something interesting.
It’s revealed that Do’eg the Edomite was at this gathering.
He speaks up and tells Saul he was at Nob when David came and got the Shewbread and Goliath’s sword from the High Priest.
No doubt, this gentile informer sensed this would be the perfect time to take advantage of the king’s distrust of his Benjamite brothers.
What’s interesting is that in this passage the word “Edomite” is mentioned three times.
This is important.
The narrator wanted to drive home the point that it was a non-Hebrew who was about to betray David and commit mass murder at Saul’s command.
Things are about to get ugly.
So here’s the takeaway I’m getting for today.
Speaking of mass murder, it occurred to me that out of all of the ruthless dictators throughout history, a good majority of them, like close to 99.9% have been Gentiles.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise because the Jews only represent 0.2% of the world’s population (about 14 million people out of 7.8 billion people).
But still, I find this fact interesting…
Here’s a list of the most murderous dictators throughout history.
Adolf Hitler – Leader of Nazi Germany responsible for the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews and others were systematically murdered.
Joseph Stalin – Leader of the Soviet Union responsible for the deaths of millions through purges, forced labor camps (Gulags), and man-made famines.
Mao Zedong – Chinese Communist leader responsible for the deaths of millions of Chinese people through policies such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Pol Pot – Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, responsible for the Cambodian genocide, during which approximately 1.7 million people died.
Idi Amin – Dictator of Uganda responsible for the deaths of an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 people during his regime.
Saddam Hussein – Former President of Iraq responsible for numerous atrocities, including the Kurdish genocide and the Iran-Iraq War, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un – Leaders of North Korea responsible for widespread human rights abuses, including political repression, starvation, and forced labor camps.
Slobodan Milošević – Former President of Serbia and Yugoslavia responsible for ethnic cleansing and war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.
Bashar al-Assad – President of Syria responsible for atrocities committed during the Syrian Civil War, including the use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Osama bin Laden – Founder of al-Qaeda responsible for numerous terrorist attacks, including the September 11 attacks in the United States, resulting in thousands of deaths.
Now here’s another interesting thought that just occurred to me.
Not only have all mass murders throughout history been Gentiles, but wouldn’t it be safe to say all of them have also been vigorous anti-Semites?
I’m serious homies.
Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Stalin, and Osama Bin Laden are obviously rabid anti-Semites.
But I’m 100% confident all the other bastards on the list are too.
How can I be so sure?
Because Judaism is a religion of life.
Anyone who takes such glee in the slaughter of millions of people is by definition against Judaism and the Jews.
Now fast forward to the conflict between Hamas and Israel today.
Here we encounter the biggest ironies of all time.
Israel is being accused of genocide…
But the truth is they’re simply responding to a genocide committed against them on October 7th, 2023.
Hamas loves death, but Israel loves life.
I leave you with this verse from the prophet Zechariah that I believe speaks of a day coming soon…
A day when Israel will be righteously avenged for all the wrongs the gentile nations have committed against her.
“On that day,
when all the nations of the earth
are gathered against her,
I will make Jerusalem an
immovable rock for all the nations.
All who try to move it
will injure themselves.”
-Zechariah 12:3,
P.S. I also did some research to try and find some murderous dictators of Jewish ethnicity. Couldn’t find much but the following:
Baruch Goldstein – An American-born Israeli extremist who perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994, killing 29 Muslim worshipers and injuring over a hundred others before being killed himself.
David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) – A serial killer who terrorized New York City in the late 1970s. While he was of Jewish descent, his crimes were not motivated by any religious or ethnic ideology.
Leopold and Loeb – Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were wealthy Jewish students who committed the infamous “thrill killing” of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 in Chicago. Their crime was widely covered in the media at the time.
The Stern Gang (Lehi) – A Jewish paramilitary group in Mandatory Palestine, known for carrying out attacks against British authorities and Arab civilians during the struggle for Israeli independence. While their actions were politically motivated, they were condemned by mainstream Jewish leaders.
P.P.S. I should also add the Pharaoh of Egypt to the list of murderous gentile dictators. This guy ordered all male Hebrew babies to be drowned in the Nile River during his time. Only Moses survived. What’s up with all these murdering anti-Semitic dictators?!
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