Pek1, Here are some Scriptures that you asked for concerning the issue of suicide.
Here are some Biblical verses to consider .....
1. Numbers 11:12-15 Moses was in despair because of the complaints of the Israelites whom he was leading. The burden of leadership was too heavy for him to bear. He asked God "If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now..."
2. Judges 9:52-54: The warrior-king of Israel, Abimelech, was attacking a tower in Thebez, hoping to exterminate large numbers of unarmed civilians as he had just done in Shechem. As he attempted to burn the door to the tower, a woman dropped a piece of a millstone on Abimelech's head. He felt that he was morally wounded. The king's contempt for women was so great that he quickly asked his armor bearer to kill him with his sword, in order that people not say that he had been killed by a woman.
3. Judges 16:29-30 Samson had been chained to the two middle pillars of a temple. He pushed them apart. thereby knowingly causing the collapse of the building, his own suicide and the death of a few thousand people inside. The death toll exceeded the number of people that he had killed during the rest of his life -which was considerable. Samson had been blinded, and no longer wanted to live as a captive. And by causing his own death, he had a chance to destroy many of the enemy.
4. 1 Samuel 31:4-6 In a war against the Philistines, Saul's sons Johnathan, Abinadab and Malchishua were killed, and Saul himself was seriously wounded. He asked his armor bearer to kill him, but his assistant refused. So he took a sword and fell on it. The armor bearer then also fell on his sword. Both committed suicide. These precise events are also described in 1 Chronicles 10:3-7. Saul's justification for committing suicide was that because of his injuries, if the Philistines arrived, he would be abused and killed.
5. 2 Samuel 1:2-17 An unidentified Amalekike man described to David a very different account about Saul's death. The versions in 1 Samuel 31 and 1 Chronicles 10, describe how Saul committed suicide by himself, after his armor bearer refused to perform the task. In this version, Saul had the Amalekite, a stranger, kill him, in a form of assisted suicide. After hearing the story of how the Amalekike had carried out the wishes of Saul, David had him executed on the spot, because he had "slain the LORD's anointed." The implication is that one can assist in the suicide of a commoner, but not in the case of a king. There is no criticism of Saul asking for help in committing suicide.
6. 2 Samuel 17:1-29 Ahithophel recommended that he be allowed to choose 12,000 men, to pursue King David immediately, and kill him. When his advice was not accepted, he became so depressed that he returned to his city, "put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died..."
7. 1 King 16:15-20 Zimri, king of Tirzah, saw his city besieged and taken. He was distressed at the sins that he had committed. He "went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house down upon himself with fire, and died..."
8. I King 18:40 and 19:4 In an act of vicious religious intolerance, Elijah ordered 400 priests of Baal executed. Ahab went to Jezebel, telling her that Elijah had "executed all the prophets with the sword." She swore to kill Elijah within the next 24 hours. Elijah fled for this life to Beersheba, went into the wilderness, and "prayed that he might die." He said, "It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!"
9. Jonah 4:1-11 God had threatened the destruction of the Nineveh, a city of 120,000 people. But the king and people of the city listened to Jonah, repented of their sins, and fasted. God changed his mind and did not destroy the city. Jonah was so angry at God's display of mercy that he asked God to kill him, "for it is better for me to die than to live!" He repeated the same request to God on the next day.
What God says about suicide:
10. Acts 16:28 KJV - "Do Thyself no harm."
Suicide destroys all that Jesus came to do:
11. Matthew 18:11 KJV - "For the Son of Man is come to save that which was lost."
12. Romans 5:8 KJV - "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
13. John 10:10 KJV - "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
14. Therefore, suicide is the ultimate slap in God's face and the ultimate statement of no faith. By committing suicide, that is like saying, "God, what a fool you were for sending your Son to bring life to mankind. You may have sent your son to be the propitiation for my sins, and you may have sent your son to be the answer to my problems. But I do not believe in Him, or I do not believe He can handle my problems. He may be able to handle everyone else's, but my problems are way too big for Jesus. So I am going to kill myself. I am going to be my own god and take my own life."
15. Proverbs 8:36 KJV - "He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
16. Psalms 11:3 KJV - "when the foundation is destroyed where shall the righteous turn?"
17. Romans 15:13 KJV - "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
18. Job 11:18-20 KJV - "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee. But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the give up of the ghost."
19. I John 5:13 KJV - "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
20. Jeremiah 10:23 KJV - "O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps."
21. I Corinthians 3:17 KJV - "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."
22. I Samuel 31:4-5 KJV - "Then said Saul unto his armourbearer. Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. There Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him."
23. James 1:15 KJV - "Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."
What Hell is like:
24. Luke 16:22-24 KJV - "...The rich man also died, and was buried, and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lararus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame."
Our life are are not our own to end on our own:
25. Acts 20:28 KJV - "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."
26. Isaiah 8:22 KJV - "And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness."
27. Exodus 20:13 KJV - "Thou shalt not kill."
The Hebrew word for kill means especially to murder. Killing oneself is just as much as murder in the eyes of the Lord as if you were to kill anyone else.
28. John 6:37 KJV - "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."
~ huh? Poor Mother devestaning(sp) breaking heart for her two sons' death.
