How many has God killed?
I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42How many people did God kill in the Bible?
It's impossible to say for sure, but plenty. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? There's just no way to count them all.
But sometimes the Bible tells us exactly how many were killed by God. Here's a list of those that I can find. (If you find any that I've missed, let me know and I'll add them to the list.)
So far I come up with a total of 2,391,421 (not including, at least in some cases, women and children).
| SAB, Brick Testament | Number Killed | Cumulative Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lot's wife for looking back | Gen.19:26, BT | 1 | 1 |
| Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord" | Gen.38:7, 1 Chr.2:3, BT | 1 | 2 |
| Onan for spilling his seed | Gen.38:10, BT | 1 | 3 |
| Pharaoh and 600 chariot captains (plus his entire army) | Ex.14:8-26 | 601+ | 604+ |
| For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf | Ex.32:27-28, 35, BT | 3000 | 3604+ |
| Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord | Lev.10:1-3, Num.3:4, 26:61, BT | 2 | 3606+ |
| A blasphemer | Lev.24:10-23, BT | 1 | 3607+ |
| A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath | Num.15:32-36, BT | 1 | 3608+ |
| Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families) | Num.16:27, BT | 12+ | 3620+ |
| Burned to death for offering incense | Num.16:35, 26:10, BT | 250 | 3870+ |
| For complaining | Num.16:49, BT | 14,700 | 18,570+ |
| For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" | Num.25:9, BT | 24,000 | 42,570+ |
| Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive) | Num.31:1-35, BT | 90,000+ | 132,570+ |
| God tells Joshua to stoned to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing. | Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26, BT | 5+ | 132,575+ |
| God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone). | Joshua 8:1-25, BT | 12,000 | 144,575+ |
| Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees | Joshua 10:24-26, BT | 5 | 144,580+ |
| God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites | Judges 1:4, BT | 10,000 | 154,580+ |
| Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly | Jg.3:15-22, BT | 1 | 154,581+ |
| God delivered Moabites | Jg.3:28-29, BT | 10,000 | 164,581+ |
| God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other. | Jg.7:2-22, 8:10, BT | 120,000 | 284,581+ |
| The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson | Jg.14:19, BT | 30 | 284,611+ |
| The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson | Jg.15:14-15, BT | 1000 | 285,611+ |
| Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism | Jg.16:27-30, BT | 3000 | 288,611+ |
| "The Lord smote Benjamin" | Jg.20:35-37, BT | 25,100 | 313,711+ |
| More Benjamites | Jg.20:44-46 | 25,000 | 338,711+ |
| For looking into the ark of the Lord | 1 Sam.6:19 | 50,070 | 388,781+ |
| God delivered Philistines | 1 Sam.14:12 | 20 | 388,801+ |
| Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death | 1 Sam.15:32-33 | 1 | 388,802+ |
| "The Lord smote Nabal." | 1 Sam.25:38 | 1 | 388,803+ |
| Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling | 2 Sam.6:6-7, 1 Chr.13:9-10 | 1 | 388,804+ |
| David and Bathsheba's baby boy | 2 Sam.12:14-18 | 1 | 388,805+ |
| Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord | 2 Sam.21:6-9 | 7 | 388,812+ |
| From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and children) | 2 Sam.24:15, 1 Chr.21:14 | 70,000+ | 458,812+ |
| A prophet for believing another prophet's lie | 1 Kg.13:1-24 | 1 | 458,813+ |
| Religious leaders killed in prayer contest | 1 Kg.18:22-40 | 450 | 459,263+ |
| God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands | 1 Kg.20:28-29 | 100,000 | 559,263+ |
| God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers | 1 Kg.20:30 | 27,000 | 586,263+ |
| God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet | 1 Kg.20:35-36 | 1 | 586,264+ |
| Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god. | 2 Kg.1:2-4, 17, 2 Chr.22:7-9 | 1 | 586,265+ |
| Burned to death by God | 2 Kg.1:9-12 | 102 | 586,367+ |
| God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head | 2 Kg.2:23-24 | 42 | 586,409+ |
| Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah | 2 Kg.7:17-20 | 1 | 586,410+ |
| Jezebel | 2 Kg.9:33-37 | 1 | 586,411+ |
| God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners | 2 Kg.17:25-26 | 3+ | 586,414+ |
| Sleeping Assyrian soldiers | 2 Kg.19:35, Is.37:36 | 185,000 | 771,414+ |
| Saul | 1 Chr.10:14 | 1 | 771,415+ |
| God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah | 2 Chr.13:15-17 | 500,000 | 1,271,415+ |
| Jeroboam | 2 Chr.13:20 | 1 | 1,271,416+ |
| "The Lord smote the Ethiopians." | 2 Chr.14:9-14 | 1,000,000 | 2,271,416+ |
| God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out | 2 Chr.21:14-19 | 1 | 2,271,417+ |
| Judean soldiers | 2 Chr.28:6 | 120,000 | 2,391,417+ |
| Ezekiel's wife | Ezek.24:15-18 | 1 | 2,391,418+ |
| Ananias and Sapphira | Acts 5:1-10 | 2 | 2,391,420+ |
| Herod | Acts 12:23, BT | 1 | 2,391,421+ |
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