Fear and RESPECT God because God “HAS” killed an estimated 25 Million.

 

I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and mine sword shall devour flesh. Deuteronomy 32:39-42

The table shows two numbers: The number given by the Bible, if any, and an estimate, when no biblical number is available.

Total number killed by God in the Bible
- Using biblical numbers only: 2,821,364
- With estimates: 25 million

(The table has been updated to include God's killings in the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books. I'll be adding the missing Apocryphal stories in the next few days.)

Killing Event

Reference

Bible's Number

Estimate

1

The Flood of Noah

Gen 7:23

20,000,000

2

Abraham's war to rescue Lot

Gen 14:17-19

1,000

3

Sodom and Gomorrah

Gen 19:24

2,000

4

Lot's wife

Gen 19:26

1

1

5

While they were sore, Dinah's brethren slew all the males

Gen 34:1-31, Judith 9:2-3

2

1,000

6

Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord

Gen 38:7

1

1

7

Onan for spilling his seed

Gen 38:10

1

1

8

A seven year worldwide famine

Gen 41:25-54

70,000

9

There will be blood: The first plague of Egypt

Ex 7:15-27 , Wis 11:7-8

10,000

10

The seventh plague: hail

Ex 9:25

300,000

11

Firstborn Egyptian children

Ex 12:29-30

500,000

12

The Lord took off their chariot wheels

Ex 14:8-26

600

5,000

13

Amalekites

Ex 17:13

1,000

14

Who is on the Lord's side?: Forcing friends and family to kill each other

Ex 32:27-28

3,000

3,000

15

Aaron's golden calf

Ex 32:35

1,000

16

God burns Aaron's sons to death for offering "strange fire"

Lev 10:1-3

2

2

17

A blasphemer is stoned to death

Lev 24:10-23

1

1

18

When the people complained, God burned them to death

Num 11:1

100

19

While the flesh was still between their teeth, the Lord smote them will a very great plague

Num 11:33

10,000

20

Ten scouts are killed for their honest report

Num 14:35-45

10

110

21

A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day is stoned to death

Num 15:32-35

1

1

22

Korah, his companions, and their families are buried alive

Num 16:27

3

9

23

God burns 250 people to death for burning incense

Num 16:35

250

250

24

God kills 14,700 for complaining about God's killings

Num 16:49

14,700

14,700

25

The massacre of the Aradies

Num 21:1-2

3,000

26

God sent serpents to bite people for complaining about the lack of food and water

Num 21:6

100

27

Phineas's double murder: A killing to end God's killing

Num 25:1-11

24,002

24,002

28

The Midianite massacre: Have ye saved all the women alive?

Num 31:1-35

6

200,000

29

God slowly killed the Israelite army

Dt 2:14-16

500,000

30

God the giant killer

Dt 2:21-22

5,000

31

God hardens King Sihon's heart so all his people can be killed

Dt 2:33-34

1

5,000

32

Og and all the men women, and children in 60 cities

Dt 3:6

1

60,000

33

The Jericho massacre

Jos 6:21

1,000

34

Achan and his family

Jos 7:10-26

1

5

35

The Ai massacre

Jos 8:1-25

12,000

12,000

36

God stops the sun so Joshua can get his killing done in the daylight

Jos 10:10-11

5,000

37

Five kings killed and hung on trees

Jos 10:26

5

10,000

38

Joshua utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord commanded

Jos 10:28-42

7

7,000

39

The genocide of twenty cities: There was not any left to breathe

Jos 11:8-12

2

20,000

40

The Anakim: some more giant killing

Jos 11:20-21

5,000

41

The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites

Jg 1:4

10,000

10,000

42

The Jerusalem massacre

Jg 1:8

1,000

43

Five massacres, a wedding, and God-proof iron chariots

Jg 1:9-25

5,000

44

The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim

Jg 3:7-10

1

1,000

45

Ehud delivers a message from God

Jg 3:15-22

1

1

46

God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites

Jg 3:28-29

10,000

10,000

47

Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad

Jg 3:31

600

600

48

Barak and God massacre the Canaanites

Jg 4:15-16

1,000

49

Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull

Jg 4:18-22

1

1

50

Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow

Jg 7:22

120,000

120,000

51

A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit

Jg 9:23-27

1,001

2,000

52

The Ammonite massacre

Jg 11:32-33

20,000

53

Jephthah's daughter

Jg 11:39

1

1

54

42,000 die for failing the "shibboleth" test

Jg 12:4-7

42,000

42,000

55

Samson murdered 30 men for their clothes

Jg 14:19

30

30

56

Samson killed 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass

Jg 15:14-15

1,000

1,000

57

Samson killed 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack

Jg 16:27-30

3,000

3,000

58

A holy civil war (it had something to do with rotting concubine body part messages)

Jg 20:35-37

65,100

65,100

59

The end of Judges: two genocides and 200 stolen virgins

Jg 21:10-14

4,000

60

God killed Eli's sons and 34,000 Israelite soldiers

1 Sam 2:25, 4:11

34,002

34,002

61

God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts

1 Sam 5:1-12

3,000

62

50,070 killed for looking into the ark of the Lord

1 Sam 6:19

50,070

50,070

63

The Lord thundered a great thunder upon the Philistines

1 Sam 7:10-11

1,000

64

Another Ammonite massacre (and another God-inspired body part message)

1 Sam 11:6-13

1,000

65

Jonathan's first slaughter

1 Sam 14:12-14

20

20

66

God forces the Philistines to kill each other

1 Sam 14:20

1,000

67

The Amalekite genocide

1 Sam  15:2-3

10,000

68

Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord

1 Sam 15:32-33

1

1

69

In the valley of Elah: Goliath

1 Sam 17:51, 2 Sam 21:19

1

1

70

David buys a wife with 200 Philistine foreskins

1 Sam  18:27

200

200

71

The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines

1 Sam 23:2-5

10,000

72

God killed Nabal and David got his wife and other things

1 Sam 25:38

1

1

73

David commits random acts of genocide for the Philistines

1 Sam 27:8-11

60,000

74

David spends the day killing Amalekites

1 Sam 30:17

1,000

75

God kills Saul, his sons, and his soldiers because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites

1 Sam 31:2, 2 Chr 10:6

4

100

76

David kills the messenger

2 Sam 1:15

1

1

77

David killed, mutilated, and hung Rechab and Baanah

2 Sam 4:12

2

2

78

God helps David smite the Philistines from the front and the rear

2 Sam 5:19-25

2,000

79

God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling

2 Sam 6:6-7, 1 Chr 13:9-10

1

1

80

David killed two-thirds of the Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest

2 Sam 8:2

667

81

And the Lord gave David victory wherever he went

2 Sam 8 - 10

65,850

66,850

82

David killed every male in Edom

2 Sam 8:13-14, 1 Kg 11:15-16, 1 Chr 18:12, Ps 60:1

15,000

25,000

83

Thus did David do to all the children of Ammon

2 Sam 11:1, 1 Chr 20:1

1,000

84

God slowly kills a baby

2 Sam 12:14-18

1

1

85

Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord

2 Sam 21:1-9

7

3,000

86

David's mighty men and their amazing killings

2 Sam 23, 1 Chr 11

1,403

3,400

87

God killed 70,000 because of David had a census that God (or Satan) told him to do

2 Sam 24:15, 1 Chr 21:14

70,000

200,000

88

Solomon murdered Job and Shimei (per David's deathbed wish)

1 Kg 2:29-46

2

2

89

A tale of two prophets

1 Kg 13:11-24

1

1

90

Jeroboam's son: God kills another child

1 Kg 14:17

1

1

91

Jeroboam's family

1 Kg 15:29

10

92

Baasha's family and friends

1 Kg 16:11-12

20

93

Zimri burns to death

1 Kg 16:18-19

1

1

94

The drought of Elijah

1 Kg 17:1, Luke 4:25, James 5:17-18

3,000

95

Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest

1 Kg 18:22-40

450

450

96

The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians

1 Kg 20:20-21

10,000

97

God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills

1 Kg 20:28-29

100,000

100,000

98

God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them

1 Kg 20:30

27,000

27,000

99

God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet

1 Kg 20:35-36

1

1

100

God killed Ahab for not killing a captured king

1 Kg 20:42, 22:35

1

1

101

God burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill

2 Kg 1:10-12

102

102

102

God killed Ahaziah for asking the wrong God

2 Kg 1:16-17, 2 Chr 22:7-9

1

1

103

God sent bears to kill 42 boys for making fun of a prophet's bald head

2 Kg 2:23-24

42

42

104

The Lord delivered the Moabites

2 Kg 3:18-25

5,000

105

A skeptic is trampled to death

2 Kg 7:2-20

1

1

106

God's seven year famine

2 Kg 8:1

7,000

107

Jehoram of Israel

2 Kg 9:24

1

1

108

Jezebel

2 Kg 9:33-37

1

1

109

Ahab's sons: 70 heads in two baskets

2 Kg 10:6-10

70

70

110

Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests

2 Kg 10:11

20

111

Jehu killed Ahaziah's family

2 Kg 10:12-13, 2 Chr 22:7-9

42

42

112

Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family

2 Kg 10:17

20

113

Jehu assembled the followers of Baal and then slaughtered them all

2 Kg 10:18-25

1,000

114

Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah

2 Kg 11:17-20

2

2

115

God sent lions to eat those who didn't fear him enough

2 Kg 17:25-26

10

116

An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers

2 Kg 19:34, 37:36

185,000

185,000

117

God caused King Sennacherib to be killed by his sons

2 Kg 19:37, Tobit 1:21

1

1

118

Josiah killed all the priests of the high places

2 Kg 23:20

100

119

Just another holy war

1 Chr 5:18-22

50,000

120

God killed a half million Israelite soldiers

2 Chr 13:17-18

500,000

500,000

121

Jeroboam

2 Chr 13:20

1

1

122

God killed a million Ethiopians

2 Chr 14:9-14

1,000,000

1,000,000

123

Friendly fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other

2 Chr 20:22-25

30,000

124

God made Jehoram's bowels fall out

2 Chr 21:14-19

1

1

125

God killed Jehoram's sons

2 Chr 22:1

3

126

Ahaziah of Judah

2 Chr 22:7-8

1

1

127

Joash, the princes, and army of Judah

2 Chr 24:20-25

1

10,000

128

God destroyed Amaziah

2 Chr 25:15-27

1

1,000

129

God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria

2 Chr 28:1-5

1

10,000

130

God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him

2 Chr 28:6

120,000

120,000

131

The fall of Jerusalem

2 Chr 36:16-17

10,000

132

The Purim killings: God hath done these things

Esther 2 - 9, 10:4

75,813

75,813

133

God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves

Job 1:18-19

10

60

134

Hananiah

Jer 28:15-16

1

1

135

Ezekiel's wife

Ezek 24:15-18

1

1

136

Oh! Susanna

Dan 13:6-62

2

2

137

Judith is blessed above all women (for cutting off a sleeping man's head)

Judith 13:6-10

1

1

138

The Judith massacre: hang ye up this head upon our walls

Judith 15:1-6

1,000

139

Mathathias's double murder

1 Mac 2:24-25

2

2

140

Mathathias and his friends slay the wicked sinners

1 Mac 2:44

100

141

God killed Andronicus, the sacrilegious wretch

2 Mac 4:38

1

1

142

A Jewish mob killed Lysimachus, the sacrilegious fellow

2 Mac 4:42

1

1

143

God helped Judas Machabeus destroy the wicked

1 Mac 3:1-26, 2 Mac 8:5-6

800

4,900

144

Judas and his unarmed men kill 3000 of Gorgias's soldiers

1 Mac 3:44-4:24

3,000

3,000

145

The Hanukkah killings

1 Mac 4:34-5:7

5,000

17,000

146

The Machabees brothers slaughter the heathens

1 Mac 5:21-51

11,000

37,000

147

Nicanor's army: The Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men

1 Mac 7:32-47, 2 Mac 8:24, 15:27

147,002

147,002

148

Jonathan and Simon destroy the wicked out of Israel

1 Mac  9:46-49, 2 Mac  8:30-33, 10:61

1,000

1,200

149

Five heavenly horsemen cast darts and fireballs at the enemy

2 Mac 8:32-10:38

21,103

21,400

150

God killed Antiochus with an incurable bowel disease

2 Mac 9:5-28

1

1

151

Idumeans, traitors, and Jews in two towers

2 Mac 10:16-17

40,000

40,100

152

Nicanor's head: A manifest sign of the help of God

1 Mac 7:33-48, 2 Mac  15:1-35

35,000

35,000

153

Aliens at Cades

1 Mac 11:74

3,000

3,000

154

John burns to death 2000 in the tower of Azotus

1 Mac 16:10

2,000

2,000

155

God sent wasps to slowly destroy people

Wisdom 12:8-9

1,000

156

Ananias and Sapphira

Acts 5:5-10

2

2

157

Herod Aggripa

Acts 12:23

1

1

Totals

2,821,363

24,994,827

 

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