There is a graphic and gripping story tucked away in the pages of the Old Testament that most people have long forgotten or never knew  was there. The Bible takes an entire chapter to tell this story which does not have a “feel good ending.” In fact after you read the story you find yourself crying out, “Oh God, how could this be right?  Why did you do it this way?’  Then you put the Bible down or you go on to a part of the Bible that “makes more intuitive sense and feels better.”  And you commit this story to the “imponderables of God”, the things we will never understand here on earth and will have to wait till we get to heaven to get the answer.

I came across this story just this week as I read my way through the Bible in an “Entire Bible in 90…