How Many People God Killed In Bible?
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"I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my 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.
Grand totals are shown below.
Biblical number | 2,552,451 |
Estimate | 25 million |
Killing Event | Scriptural Reference | Biblical number | Estimate | |
1 | The Flood of Noah | Gen 7:23 | - | 20,000,000 |
2 | Abraham's war to rescue Lot | Gen 14:17-19 | - | 1000 |
3 | Sodom and Gomorrah | Gen 19:24 | - | 2,000 |
4 | Lot's wife | Gen 19:26 | 1 | 1 |
5 | The Shechem/Dinah love story/massacre | Gen 34:1-31 Judith 9:2-3 |
2 | 1000 |
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 | God's seven year, world-wide famine | Gen 41:25-54 | - | 70,000 |
9 | The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail | Ex 9:25 | - | 300,000 |
10 | God killed all first born Egyptian children | Ex 12:29-30 | - | 500,000 |
11 | God drowned the Egyptian army | Ex 14:8-26 | 600 | 5,000 |
12 | Amalekites | Ex 17:13 | - | 1,000 |
13 | Who is on the Lord's side? | Ex 32:27-28 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
14 | God plagued the people because of Aaron's calf | Ex 32:35 | - | 1,000 |
15 | God burns Aaron's sons to death | Lev 10:1-3 | 2 | 2 |
16 | A blasphemer is stoned to death | Lev 24:10-23 | 1 | 1 |
17 | God burned people to death for complaining | Num 11:1 | - | 100 |
18 | God plagued the people for complaining about the food | Num 11:33 | - | 10,000 |
19 | Ten scouts are killed for their honest report | Num 14:35-36 | 10 | 10 |
20 | A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day | Num 15:32-35 | 1 | 1 |
21 | The opposing party is buried alive (with their families) | Num 16:27 | 3 | 9 |
22 | 250 burned to death for burning incense | Num 16:35 | 250 | 250 |
23 | For complaining about God's killings | Num 16:49 | 14,700 | 14,700 |
24 | The massacre of the Aradites | Num 21:1-3 | - | 3,000 |
25 | God sent snakes to bite people for complaining | Num 21:6 | - | 100 |
26 | Phinehas' double murder: A killing to end God's killings | Num 25:1-11 | 24,002 | 24,002 |
27 | The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women alive? | Num 31:1-35 | 6 | 200,000 |
28 | God slowly kills the Israelite army | Dt 2:14-16 | - | 500,000 |
29 | God the giant killer | Dt 2:21-22 | - | 5,000 |
30 | God hardens King Sihon's heart so he can kill him and all his people | Dt 2:33-34 | 1 | 5,000 |
31 | Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites | Dt 3:3-6 | 1 | 60,000 |
32 | The Jericho Massacre | Jos 6:21 | - | 1,000 |
33 | Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death | Jos 7:10-12,24-26 | 1 | 5 |
34 | The Ai massacre | Jos 8:1-25 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
35 | God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the daylight | Jos 10:10-11 | - | 5,000 |
36 | Five kings killed and hung on trees | Jos 10:26 | 5 | 10,000 |
37 | Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God commanded | Jos 10:28-42 | 7 | 7,000 |
38 | Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities | Jos 11:8-12 | 2 | 20,000 |
39 | The Anakim: More giant killing | Jos 11:20-21 | - | 5,000 |
40 | The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites | Jg 1:4 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
41 | The Jerusalem Massacre | Jg 1:8 | - | 1,000 |
42 | Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots | Jg 1:9-25 | - | 5,000 |
43 | The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim | Jg 3:7-10 | 1 | 1,000 |
44 | Ehud delivers a message from God | Jg 3:15-22 | 1 | 1 |
45 | God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites | Jg 3:28-29 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
46 | Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad | Jg 3.31 | 600 | 600 |
47 | Barak and God massacre the Canaanites | Jg 4:15-16 | - | 1,000 |
48 | Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull | Jg 4:18-22 | 1 | 1 |
49 | Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow | Jg 7:22 | 120,000 | 120,000 |
50 | A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit | Jg 9:23-57 | 1,001 | 2,000 |
51 | The Ammonite Massacre | Jg 11:32-33 | - | 20,000 |
52 | Jephthah's Daughter | Jg 11:39 | 1 | 1 |
53 | 42,000 killed for failing the "shibboleth" test | Jg 12.4-7,Heb 11.32 | 42,000 | 42,000 |
54 | Samson murders 30 men for their clothes | Jg 14:19 | 30 | 30 |
55 | Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass | Jg 15:14-15 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
56 | Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack | Jg 16:27-30 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
57 | A holy civil war (called by rotting concubine body part messages) | Jg 20:35-37 | 65,100 | 65,100 |
58 | The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen virgins | Jg 21.10-14 | - | 4,000 |
59 | God kills Eli's sons along with 34,000 Israelite soldiers | 1Sam 2:25,1Sam 4:11 | 34,002 | 34,002 |
60 | God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts | 1Sam 5:1-12 | - | 3,000 |
61 | God killed 50,070 for looking into the ark of the Lord | 1Sam 6:19 | 50,070 | 50,070 |
62 | The Lord thundered great thunder upon the Philistines | 1Sam 7:10-11 | - | 1,000 |
63 | Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired body-part message) | 1Sam 11:6-13 | - | 1,000 |
64 | Jonathan's very fist slaughter (not counting the one before) | 1Sam 14:12-14 | 20 | 20 |
65 | God forces the Philistines to kill each other | 1Sam 14:20 | - | 1,000 |
66 | The Amalekite genocide | 1Sam 15:2-3 | - | 10,000 |
67 | Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord | 1Sam 15:32-33 | 1 | 1 |
68 | David or Elhanan killed Goliath | 1Sam 17.51,2Sam 21.19 | 1 | 1 |
69 | David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to buy his first wife) | 1Sam 18.27 | 200 | 200 |
70 | The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines | 1Sam 23:2-5 | - | 10,000 |
71 | God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff) | 1Sam 25:38 | 1 | 1 |
72 | David committed genocides for the Philistines | 1Sam 27.8-11 | - | 60,000 |
73 | David spends the day killing Amalekites | 1Sam 30:17 | - | 1,000 |
74 | God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites | 1Sam 31:2,1Chr 10:6 | 4 | 100 |
75 | David killed the messenger | 2Sam 1.15 | 1 | 1 |
76 | David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and feet, and hung up their dead bodies | 2Sam 4.12 | 2 | 2 |
77 | God helps David smite Philistines from the front and the rear | 2Sam 5:19-25 | - | 2,000 |
78 | God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling | 2Sam 6:6-7,1Chr 13:9-10 | 1 | 1 |
79 | David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest | 2Sam 8.2 | - | 667 |
80 | The Lord gave David victory wherever he went | 2Sam 8.5,10.18 | 65,850 | 66,850 |
81 | David killed every male in Edom | 2Sam 8.13,1Kg 11.15-16, 1Chr 18.12, Psalm 60:1 | 15,000 | 65,000 |
82 | Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon | 2Sam 11.1,1Chr 20.1 | - | 1,000 |
83 | God slowly kills a baby | 2Sam 12:14-18 | 1 | 1 |
84 | Famine and human sacrfice: Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord | 2Sam 21:1-9 | 7 | 3,000 |
85 | David's mighty men and their amazing killings | 2Sam 23,1Chr 11 | 1,403 | 3,400 |
86 | A couple hundred thousand die because David had a census | 2Sam 24:15,1Chr 21:14 | 70,000 | 200,000 |
87 | Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by having Joab and Shimei murdered | 1Kg 2:29-34,2:44-46 | 2 | 2 |
88 | A tale of two prophets | 1Kg 13:11-24 | 1 | 1 |
89 | Jeroboam's son: God kills another child | 1Kg 14:17 | 1 | 1 |
90 | Jeroboam's family | 1Kg 15:29 | - | 10 |
91 | Baasha's family and friends | 1Kg 16:11-12 | - | 20 |
92 | Zimri burns to death | 1Kg 16.18-19 | 1 | 1 |
93 | The drought of Elijah | 1Kg 17.1, Lk 4.25, James 5.17-18 | - | 3,000 |
94 | Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest | 1Kg 18.22-40 | 450 | 450 |
95 | The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians | 1Kg 20:20-21 | - | 10,000 |
96 | God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills | 1Kg 20:28-29 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
97 | God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them | 1Kg 20:30 | 27,000 | 27,000 |
98 | God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet | 1Kg 20:35-36 | 1 | 1 |
99 | God kills Ahab for not killing a captured king | 1Kg 20:42,22:35 | 1 | 1 |
100 | God burned to death 102 men for asking Elijah to come down from his hill | 2Kg 1:10-12 | 102 | 102 |
101 | God killed King Ahaziah for asking the wrong God | 2Kg 1:16-17;2Chr 22:7-9 | 1 | 1 |
102 | God sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of a prophet's bald head | 2Kg 2:23-24 | 42 | 42 |
103 | The Lord delivered the Moabites | 2Kg 3:18-25 | - | 5,000 |
104 | A skeptic is trampled to death | 2Kg 7.2-20 | 1 | 1 |
105 | Another seven year famine | 2Kg 8:1 | - | 7,000 |
106 | Jehoram of Israel | 2Kg 9:24 | 1 | 1 |
107 | Jezebel | 2Kg 9:33-37 | 1 | 1 |
108 | Ahab's sons: Seventy heads in two heaps | 2Kg 10:6-10 | 70 | 70 |
109 | Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests | 2Kg 10:11 | - | 20 |
110 | Jehu killed Ahaziah's family | 2Kg 10.12-13, 2Chr 22.7-9 | 42 | 42 |
111 | Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family | 2Kg 10:17 | - | 20 |
112 | Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then slaughters them all | 2Kg 10.18-25 | - | 1,000 |
113 | Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah | 2Kg 11.17-20 | 2 | 2 |
114 | God sends lions to eat those that don't fear him enough | 2Kg 17:25-26 | - | 10 |
115 | An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers | 2Kg 19:34, Is 37:36 | 185,000 | 185,000 |
116 | God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons | 2Kg 19:37 | 1 | 1 |
117 | Josiah killed all the priests of the high places | 2Kg 23.20 | - | 100 |
118 | Another holy war | 1Chr 5:18-22 | - | 50,000 |
119 | God killed a half million Israelite soldiers | 2Chr 13:17-18 | 500,000 | 500,000 |
120 | Jeroboam | 2Chr 13:20 | 1 | 1 |
121 | God killed a million Ethiopians | 2Chr 14:9-14 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
122 | Friendly Fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other | 2Chr 20:22-25 | - | 30,000 |
123 | God made Jehoram's bowels fall out | 2Chr 21:14-19 | 1 | 1 |
124 | God killed Jehoram's sons | 2Chr 22:1 | - | 3 |
125 | Ahaziah (of Judah) | 2Chr 22.7-9 | 1 | 1 |
126 | Joash, the princes, and army of Judah | 2Chr 24:20-25 | 1 | 10,000 |
127 | God destroyed Amaziah | 2Chr 25:15-27 | 1 | 1000 |
128 | God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria | 2Chr 28:1-5 | - | 10,000 |
129 | God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him | 2Chr 28:6 | 120,000 | 120,000 |
130 | The fall of Jerusalem | 2Chr 36:16-17 | - | 10,000 |
131 | The Purim killings God hath done these things |
Esther 2-9(KJV), Esther 10:4 (Douay-Reims) | 75,813 | 75,813 |
132 | God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves | Job 1:18-19 | 10 | 60 |
133 | Hananiah | Jeremiah 28:15-16 | 1 | 1 |
134 | Ezekiel's wife | Ezek 24:15-18 | 1 | 1 |
135 | Annanias and Sapphira | Acts 5:1-10 | 2 | 2 |
136 | Herod | Acts 12:23 | 1 | 1 |
137 | Jesus | Rom 8:32,1Pet 1.18-20 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 2,552,451 | 24,711,018 |
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