|
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 |
110 |
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 |
3,000 |
31 |
Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites |
Dt 3:3-6 |
- |
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 |
1 Sam 2:25, 1Sam 4:11 |
34,002 |
34,002 |
60 |
God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts |
1 Sam 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 |
1 Sam 7:10-11 |
- |
1,000 |
63 |
Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired body-part message) |
1 Sam 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 |
1 Sam 14:20 |
- |
1,000 |
66 |
The Amalekite genocide |
1 Sam 15:2-3 |
- |
10,000 |
67 |
Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord |
1 Sam 15:32-33 |
1 |
1 |
68 |
David or Elhanan killed Goliath |
1 Sam 17.51, 2Sam 21.19 |
1 |
1 |
69 |
David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to buy his first wife) |
1 Sam 18.27 |
200 |
200 |
70 |
The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines |
1 Sam 23:2-5 |
- |
10,000 |
71 |
God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff) |
1 Sam 25:38 |
1 |
1 |
72 |
David committed genocides for the Philistines |
1 Sam 27.8-11 |
- |
60,000 |
73 |
David spends the day killing Amalekites |
1 Sam 30:17 |
- |
1,000 |
74 |
God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites |
1 Sam 31:2, 1Chr 10:6 |
4 |
100 |
75 |
David killed the messenger |
2 Sam 1.15 |
1 |
1 |
76 |
David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and feet, and hung up their dead bodies |
2 Sam 4.12 |
2 |
2 |
77 |
God helps David smite Philistines from the front and the rear |
2 Sam 5:19-25 |
- |
2,000 |
78 |
God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling |
2 Sam 6:6-7, 1Chr 13:9-10 |
1 |
1 |
79 |
David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest |
2 Sam 8.2 |
- |
667 |
80 |
The Lord gave David victory wherever he went |
2 Sam 8.5, 10.18 |
65,850 |
66,850 |
81 |
David killed every male in Edom |
2 Sam 8.13, 1 Kg 11.15-16, 1 Chr 18.12, Psalm 60:1 |
15,000 |
65,000 |
82 |
Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon |
2 Sam 11.1, 1 Chr 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 |
2 Sam 21:1-9 |
7 |
3,000 |
85 |
David's mighty men and their amazing killings |
2 Sam 23, 1 Chr 11 |
1,403 |
3,400 |
|
86 |
A couple hundred thousand die because David had a census |
2 Sam 24:15, 1 Chr 21:14 |
70,000 |
200,000 |
87 |
Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by having Joab and Shimei murdered |
1 Kg 2:29-34, 2:44-46 |
2 |
2 |
88 |
A tale of two prophets |
1 Kg 13:11-24 |
1 |
1 |
89 |
Jeroboam's son: God kills another child |
1 Kg 14:17 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
Jeroboam's family |
1 Kg 15:29 |
- |
10 |
91 |
Baasha's family and friends |
1 Kg 16:11-12 |
- |
20 |
92 |
Zimri burns to death |
1 Kg 16.18-19 |
1 |
1 |
93 |
The drought of Elijah |
1 Kg 17.1, Lk 4.25, James 5.17-18 |
- |
3,000 |
94 |
Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest |
1 Kg 18.22-40 |
450 |
450 |
95 |
The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians |
1 Kg 20:20-21 |
- |
10,000 |
96 |
God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills |
1 Kg 20:28-29 |
100,000 |
100,000 |
97 |
God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them |
1 Kg 20:30 |
27,000 |
27,000 |
98 |
God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet |
1 Kg 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 |
2 Kg 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 |
2 Kg 2:23-24 |
42 |
42 |
103 |
The Lord delivered the Moabites |
2 Kg 3:18-25 |
- |
5,000 |
104 |
A skeptic is trampled to death |
2 Kg 7.2-20 |
1 |
1 |
105 |
Another seven year famine |
2 Kg 8:1 |
- |
7,000 |
106 |
Jehoram of Israel |
2 Kg 9:24 |
1 |
1 |
107 |
Jezebel |
2 Kg 9:33-37 |
1 |
1 |
108 |
Ahab's sons: Seventy heads in two heaps |
2 Kg 10:6-10 |
70 |
70 |
109 |
Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests |
2 Kg 10:11 |
- |
20 |
110 |
Jehu killed Ahaziah's family |
2 Kg 10.12-13, 2 Chr 22.7-9 |
42 |
42 |
111 |
Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family |
2 Kg 10:17 |
- |
20 |
112 |
Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then slaughters them all |
2 Kg 10.18-25 |
- |
1,000 |
113 |
Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah |
2 Kg 11.17-20 |
2 |
2 |
114 |
God sends lions to eat those that don't fear him enough |
2 Kg 17:25-26 |
- |
10 |
115 |
An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers |
2 Kg 19:34, Is 37:36 |
185,000 |
185,000 |
116 |
God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons |
2 Kg 19:37, Tobit 1:21 |
1 |
1 |
117 |
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places |
2 Kg 23.20 |
- |
100 |
118 |
Another holy war |
1 Chr 5:18-22 |
- |
50,000 |
119 |
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers |
2 Chr 13:17-18 |
500,000 |
500,000 |
120 |
Jeroboam |
2 Chr 13:20 |
1 |
1 |
121 |
God killed a million Ethiopians |
2 Chr 14:9-14 |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
122 |
Friendly Fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other |
2 Chr 20:22-25 |
- |
30,000 |
123 |
God made Jehoram's bowels fall out |
2 Chr 21:14-19 |
1 |
1 |
124 |
God killed Jehoram's sons |
2 Chr 22:1 |
- |
3 |
125 |
Ahaziah (of Judah) |
2 Chr 22.7-9 |
1 |
1 |
126 |
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah |
2 Chr 24:20-25 |
1 |
10,000 |
127 |
God destroyed Amaziah |
2 Chr 25:15-27 |
1 |
1000 |
128 |
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria |
2 Chr 28:1-5 |
- |
10,000 |
129 |
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him |
2 Chr 28:6 |
120,000 |
120,000 |
130 |
The fall of Jerusalem |
2 Chr 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 |
Judith cut off a sleeping man's head |
Judith 13:6-10 |
1 |
1 |
136 |
The Judith massacre |
Judith 15:1-6 |
- |
1000 |
137 |
Annanias and Sapphira |
Acts 5:1-10 |
2 |
2 |
138 |
Herod |
Acts 12:23 |
1 |
1 |
139 |
Jesus |
Rom 8:32, 1 Pet 1.18-20 |
1 |
1 |
Total |
2,552,452 |
24,712,019 |