How Many Has God Killed?>
Steve Wells
Complete list and estimated total
I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. Deuteronomy 32:39-42
In a previous post, I've listed and counted God's killings in the Bible. But I only included those that said exactly how many were killed by God. I came up with 2,270,365.
But that didn't include some of God's most impressive slaughters. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? The Bible doesn't say, so there's no way to know for sure. But it's possible to provide rough estimates in order to get a grand total, and that's what I'm attempting here. (New total: 32.9 million.)
|
Number
Killed |
Cumulative
Total |
|
God
drowns everyone on earth (except
Noah and his
family) |
30,000,000? |
30,000,000 |
|
God
rains fire and brimstone on
Sodom and Gomorrah, killing
everyone. |
1000? |
30,001,000 |
|
|
1 |
30,001,001 |
|
Er
who was "wicked in the
sight of the Lord" |
1 |
30,001,002 |
|
Onan
for spilling his seed |
1 |
30,001,003 |
|
7th
Egyptian Plague: Hail |
30,000? |
30,031,003 |
|
God
kills every Egyptian firstborn
child. |
500,000? |
30,531,003 |
|
God
drowns Egyptian army |
1000? |
30,532,003 |
|
God
and Moses help Joshua kill the
Amalekites |
1000? |
30,533,003 |
|
For
dancing naked around Aaron's
golden calf |
3000 |
30,536,003 |
|
Aaron's
sons for offering strange fire
before the Lord |
Lev.10:1-3,
Num.3:4,
26:61,
BT |
2 |
30,536,005 |
A
blasphemer |
1 |
30,536,006 |
|
God
burned to death an unknown
number for complaining |
100? |
30,536,106 |
|
God
sent "a very great
plague" for complaining
about the food. |
10,000? |
30,546,106 |
|
God
killed those who murmured with a
plague. |
100? |
30,546,206 |
|
A
man who pi |
1 |
30,546,207 |
|
Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram (and their
families) |
12+ |
30,546,219 |
|
Burned
to death for offering incense |
250 |
30,546,469 |
|
For
complaining |
14,700 |
30,561,169 |
|
Massacre
of the Aradites |
3000? |
30,564,169 |
|
For
complaining
about the lack
of food and
water, God sent
fiery serpents
to bite the
people, and many
of them died. |
100? |
30,564,269 |
|
God
delivers the
Bashanites into
Moses' hands and
Moses kills
everyone
"until
there was none
left
alive." |
1000? |
30,565,269 |
|
For
"com |
24,000 |
30,589,269 |
|
Midianite
massacre (32,000 virgins were
kept alive) |
90,000+ |
30,679,269 |
|
The
slaughter of the Anakim, the
childen of Esau, and the Horim |
5000? |
30,684,269 |
|
God
hardened the king of Heshbon's
heart so that the Israelites
could massacre his people.
(included several cities) |
3000? |
30,687,269 |
|
God
delievered the king of Bashan so
that the Israelites could
massacre his people. |
60,000? |
30,747,269 |
|
Massacre
of Jericho |
1000? |
30,748,269 |
|
|
5+ |
30,748,274 |
|
God
tells Joshua to attack Ai and do
what he did to Jericho (kill
everyone). |
12,000 |
30,760,274 |
|
God
slaughters the Amorites and even
chases them "along the
way" as they try to escape.
|
1000? |
30,761,274 |
|
Joshua
kills 5 kings and hangs their
dead bodies on trees |
5 |
30,761,279 |
|
Massacre
of 7 cities |
7000? |
30,768,279 |
|
God
delivers the Hazorites. |
1000? |
30,769,279 |
|
Massacre
of the Anakim |
1000? |
30,770,279 |
|
God
delivered Canaanites and
Perizzites |
10,000 |
30,780,279 |
|
Ehud
delivers a message from God: a
knife into the king's belly |
1 |
30,780,280 |
|
God
|
10,000 |
30,790,280 |
|
Massacre
of the Canaanites |
1000? |
30,791,280 |
|
God
forces Midianite soldiers to
kill each other. |
120,000 |
30,911,280 |
|
God
delivered the Ammonites to
Jephthah to slaughter. |
1000? |
30,912,280 |
|
The
Spirit of the Lord comes on
Samson |
30 |
30,912,310 |
|
The
Spirit of the Lord comes
mightily on Samson |
1000 |
30,913,310 |
|
Samson's
God-assisted act of terrorism |
3000 |
30,916,310 |
|
"The
Lord smote Benjamin" |
25,100 |
30,941,410 |
|
More
Benjamites |
25,000 |
30,966,410 |
|
For
looking into the ark of the Lord |
50,070 |
31,016,480 |
|
God
delivered Philistines |
20 |
31,016,500 |
|
God
forces the Philistine soldiers
to kill each other. |
1000? |
31,017,500 |
|
God
orders Saul to kill every
Amalekite man, women, and child.
|
1000? |
31,018,500 |
|
Samuel
(at God's command) hacks Agag to
death |
1 |
31,018,501 |
|
God
delivers the Philistines. |
1000? |
31,019,501 |
|
"The
Lord smote Nabal." |
1 |
31,019,502 |
|
God
delivers the Philistines to
David (again). |
1000? |
31,020,502 |
|
Uzzah
for trying to keep the ark from
falling |
1 |
31,020,503 |
|
David
and Bathsheba's baby boy |
1 |
31,020,504 |
|
God
sent a three-year famine because
of something Saul did. |
5000? |
31,025,504 |
|
Seven
sons of Saul hung up before the
Lord |
7 |
31,025,511 |
|
From
plague as punishment for David's
census (men only; probably
200,000 if including women and
children) |
70,000+ |
31,095,511 |
|
A
prophet for believing another
prophet's lie |
1 |
31,095,512 |
|
Baasha
killed everyone in the house of
Jeroboam "according to the
saying of the Lord." |
1000? |
31,096,512 |
|
Zimri
killed everyone in the house of
Baasha "according to the
word of the Lord." |
1000? |
31,097,512 |
|
God
delivers the Syrians into the
Israelites' han |
100,000 |
31,197,512 |
|
God
makes a wall fall on Syrian
soldiers |
27,000 |
31,224,512 |
|
God
sent a lion to eat a man for not
killing a prophet |
1 |
31,224,513 |
|
Ahaziah
is killed for talking to the
wrong god. |
1 |
31,224,514 |
|
Burned
to death by God |
102 |
31,224,616 |
|
God
sends two bears to kill children
for making fun of Elisha's bald
head |
42 |
31,224,658 |
|
Trampled
to death for disbelieving Elijah |
1 |
31,224,659 |
|
God
calls for a seven year famine. |
10,000? |
31,234,659 |
|
Jezebel |
1 |
31,234,660 |
|
Jehu
killed "all that remained
unto Ahab in Samaria ...
according to the saying of the
Lord" |
100? |
31,234,760 |
|
God
sent lions to kill
"some" foreigners |
3+ |
31,234,763 |
|
Sleeping
Assyrian soldiers |
185,000 |
31,419,763 |
|
Saul |
1 |
31,419,764 |
|
God
delivers Israel into the hands
of Judah |
500,000 |
31,919,764 |
|
Jeroboam |
1 |
31,919,765 |
|
"The
Lord smote the Ethiopians." |
1,000,000 |
32,919,765 |
|
God
kills Jehoram by making his
bowels fall out |
1 |
32,919,766 |
|
God
delivered the Israelites into
the hand of the Chaldeans. |
1000? |
32,920,766 |
|
Ezekiel's
wife |
1 |
32,920,767 |
|
Ananias
and Sapphira |
2 |
32,920,769 |
|
Herod |
|
32,920,770 |
Posted by Steve Wells upon his http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/ on January 13, 2007
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