Rainbow flag in his hand. In the German Peasants' War of the 16th century, the rainbow flag together with the peasants' boot ("Bundschuh") was used as the sign of a new era, of hope and of social change. The choice of the rainbow in the form of a flag harkens back to the rainbow as a symbol of biblical promise. According to the Bible, God first created the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a worldwide flood, also known as the Rainbow covenant. The South African flag is sometimes referred to as the "Rainbow flag". Rainbow
The Bible and violence out" but in another idiom it means to "be blotted out...from...[the] earth" to "be exterminated, be destroyed, perish"; and "kalah" (kalah in Qal can mean "be finished, be destroyed). When Adam and Eve disobey God, he curses them and banishes them from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). In Genesis 4:1-18 Cain, the first born man, murders his brother Abel. God curses Cain for this, and also grants him protection from danger. In the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis 6-9), God sees that "wickedness of man was great" and decides to exterminate mankind and all animals, saving only Noah and those