You know how your parents let you eat dessert but if you are bad as a child they take dessert away from you have you eating those nasty mean ol' vegetables?

Yeah that's a punishment far less than the punishment God gave the people of Israel.

And @ there are other curses/punishments God gave the people of Israel... yes they made him mad enough to go tell them to become slaves to their enemies, to be naked, hungry and thirsty, have their land destroyed, be robbed, men & women murdering their families and relatives to eat them and a handful of other curses in Deutoronomy 28.

God NEVER said it was the righteous thing to do, but since they want to be hard-headed they gonna get stripped from their priveleges. That's like the ultimate punishment and lesson for Israel, in my opinion.

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