A Bible full of Violence, Killings & Murder
Jesus, the Christian God is depicted as full of boundless Love, Mercy and Forgiveness. But on further investigation, the Biblical God is equally full of
Anger, Rage and Revenge.
The table below lists events which led to the deaths of approximately
25,000,000 (25 Million) people based on Biblical texts and estimates.
NOTE: All figures are Estimated (EST), unless the Actual figure is identified in the specified Bible verse
25M Deaths In The Bible
How are they calculated?
20,000,000 dead EST.
1 of 158
The Flood of Noah
[GENESIS 7:23]
1,000 dead EST.
2 of 158
Abraham's war to rescue Lot
[GENESIS 14:17-19]
2,000 dead
3 of 158
Sodom and Gomorrah
[GENESIS 19:24]
1 dead
4 of 158
Lot's wife
[GENESIS 19:26]
1,000 dead EST.
5 of 158
While they were sore, Dinah's brethren slew all the males
[GENESIS 34:1-31]
[JUDITH 9:2-3]
1 dead
6 of 158
Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord
[GENESIS 38:7]
1 dead
7 of 158
Onan for spilling his seed
[GENESIS 38:10]
70,000 dead EST.
8 of 158
A seven year worldwide famine
[GENESIS 41:25-54]
10,000 dead EST.
9 of 158
There will be blood: The first plague of Egypt
[EXODUS 7:15-27]
[WISDOM 11:7-8]
300,000 dead EST.
10 of 158
The seventh plague: Hail
[EXODUS 9:25]
500,000 dead EST.
11 of 158
Firstborn Egyptian children
[EXODUS 12:29-30]
5,000 dead EST.
12 of 158
The Lord took off their chariot wheels
[EXODUS 14:8-26]
1,000 dead EST.
13 of 158
Amalekites
[EXODUS 17:13]
3,000 dead
14 of 158
Who is on the Lord's side?: Forcing friends and family to kill each other
[EXODUS 32:27-28]
1,000 dead EST.
15 of 158
Aaron's golden calf
[EXODUS 32:35]
2 dead
16 of 158
God burns Aaron's sons to death for offering "strange fire"
[LEVITICUS 10:1-3]
1 dead
17 of 158
A blasphemer is stoned to death
[LEVITICUS 24:10-23]
100 dead EST.
18 of 158
When the people complained, God burned them to death
[NUMBERS 11:1]
10,000 dead EST.
19 of 158
While the flesh was still between their teeth, the Lord smote them will a very great plague
[NUMBERS 11:33]
10 dead
20 of 158
Ten scouts are killed for their honest report
[NUMBERS 14:35-45]
1 dead
21 of 158
A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day is stoned to death
[NUMBERS 15:32-35]
9 dead EST.
22 of 158
Korah, his companions, and their families are buried alive
[NUMBERS 16:27]
250 dead
23 of 158
God burns 250 people to death for burning incense
[NUMBERS 16:35]
14,700 dead
24 of 158
God kills 14,700 for complaining about God's killings
[NUMBERS 16:49]
3,000 dead EST.
25 of 158
The massacre of the Aradies
[NUMBERS 21:1-2]
100 dead EST.
26 of 158
God sent serpents to bite people for complaining about the lack of food and water
[NUMBERS 21:6]
24,002 dead
27 of 158
Phineas's double murder: A killing to end God's killing
[NUMBERS 25:1-11]
200,000 dead EST.
28 of 158
The Midianite massacre: Have ye saved all the women alive?
[NUMBERS 31:1-35]
500,000 dead EST.
29 of 158
God slowly killed the Israelite army
[DEUTERONOMY 2:14-16]
5,000 dead EST.
30 of 158
God the giant killer
[DEUTERONOMY 2:21-22]
5,000 dead EST.
31 of 158
God hardens King Sihon's heart so all his people can be killed
[DEUTERONOMY 2:33-34]
60,000 dead EST.
32 of 158
Og and all the men women, and children in 60 cities
[DEUTERONOMY 3:6]
1,000 dead EST.
33 of 158
The Jericho massacre
[JOSHUA 6:21]
5 dead EST.
34 of 158
Achan and his family
[JOSHUA 7:10-26]
12,000 dead
35 of 158
The Ai massacre
[JOSHUA 8:1-25]
5,000 dead EST.
36 of 158
God stops the sun so Joshua can get his killing done in the daylight
[JOSHUA 10:10-11]
5 dead
37 of 158
Five kings killed and hung on trees
[JOSHUA 10:26]
7,000 dead EST.
38 of 158
Joshua utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord commanded
[JOSHUA 10:28-42]
20,000 dead EST.
39 of 158
The genocide of twenty cities: There was not any left to breathe
[JOSHUA 11:8-12]
5,000 dead EST.
40 of 158
The Anakim: some more giant killing
[JOSHUA 11:20-21]
10,000 dead
41 of 158
The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites
[JUDGES 1:4]
1,000 dead EST.
42 of 158
The Jerusalem massacre
[JUDGES 1:8]
5,000 dead EST.
43 of 158
Five massacres, a wedding, and God-proof iron chariots
[JUDGES 1:9-25]
1,000 dead EST.
44 of 158
The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim
[JUDGES 3:7-10]
1 dead
45 of 158
Ehud delivers a message from God
[JUDGES 3:15-22]
10,000 dead
46 of 158
God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites
[JUDGES 3:28-29]
600 dead
47 of 158
Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad
[JUDGES 3:31]
1,000 dead EST.
48 of 158
Barak and God massacre the Canaanites
[JUDGES 4:15-16]
1 dead
49 of 158
Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull
[JUDGES 4:18-22]
120,000 dead
50 of 158
Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow
[JUDGES 7:22]
1,000 dead
51 of 158
A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit
[JUDGES 9:23-27]
20,000 dead EST.
52 of 158
The Ammonite massacre
[JUDGES 11:32-33]
1 dead
53 of 158
Jephthah's daughter
[JUDGES 11:39]
42,000 dead
54 of 158
42,000 die for failing the "shibboleth" test
[JUDGES 12:4-7]
30 dead
55 of 158
Samson murdered 30 men for their clothes
[JUDGES 14:19]
1,000 dead
56 of 158
Samson killed 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass
[JUDGES 15:14-15]
3,000 dead
57 of 158
Samson killed 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack
[JUDGES 16:27-30]
65,100 dead
58 of 158
A holy civil war (it had something to do with rotting concubine body part messages)
[JUDGES 20:35-37]
4,000 dead EST.
59 of 158
The end of Judges: two genocides and 200 stolen virgins
[JUDGES 21:10-14]
34,002 dead
60 of 158
God killed Eli's sons and 34,000 Israelite soldiers
[1 SAMUEL 2:25]
[1 SAMUEL 4:11]
3,000 dead EST.
61 of 158
God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts
[1 SAMUEL 5:1-12]
50,070 dead
62 of 158
50,070 killed for looking into the ark of the Lord
[1 SAMUEL 6:19]
1,000 dead EST.
63 of 158
The Lord thundered a great thunder upon the Philistines
[1 SAMUEL 7:10-11]
1,000 dead EST.
64 of 158
Another Ammonite massacre (and another God-inspired body part message)
[1 SAMUEL 11:6-13]
20 dead
65 of 158
Jonathan's first slaughter
[1 SAMUEL 14:12-14]
1,000 dead EST.
66 of 158
God forces the Philistines to kill each other
[1 SAMUEL 14:20]
10,000 dead EST.
67 of 158
The Amalekite genocide
[1 SAMUEL 15:2-3]
1 dead
68 of 158
Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord
[1 SAMUEL 15:32-33]
1 dead
69 of 158
In the valley of Elah: Goliath
[1 SAMUEL 17:51]
[2 SAMUEL 21:19]
200 dead
70 of 158
David buys a wife with 200 Philistine foreskins
[1 SAMUEL 18:27]
10,000 dead EST.
71 of 158
The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines
[1 SAMUEL 23:2-5]
1 dead
72 of 158
God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff)
[1 SAMUEL 25:38]
60,000 dead EST.
73 of 158
David commits random acts of genocide for the Philistines
[1 SAMUEL 27:8-11]
1,000 dead EST.
74 of 158
David spends the day killing Amalekites
[1 SAMUEL 30:17]
100 dead EST.
75 of 158
God kills Saul, his sons, and his soldiers (because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites)
[1 SAMUEL 31:2]
[2CHRONICLES 10:6]
1 dead
76 of 158
David kills the messenger
[2 SAMUEL 1:15]
2 dead
77 of 158
David killed, mutilated, and hung Rechab and Baanah
[2 SAMUEL 4:12]
2,000 dead EST.
78 of 158
God helps David smite the Philistines from the front and the rear
[2 SAMUEL 5:19-25]
1 dead
79 of 158
God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling
[2 SAMUEL 6:6-7]
[1CHRONICLES 13:9-10]
667 dead EST.
80 of 158
David killed two-thirds of the Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest
[2 SAMUEL 8:2]
65,850 dead
81 of 158
And the Lord gave David victory wherever he went
[2 SAMUEL 8:10]
25,000 dead EST.
82 of 158
David killed every male in Edom
[2 SAMUEL 8:13-14]
[1 KINGS 11:15-16]
[1CHRONICLES 18:12]
[PSALMS 60:1]
1,000 dead EST.
83 of 158
Thus did David do to all the children of Ammon
[2 SAMUEL 11:1]
[1CHRONICLES 20:1]
1 dead
84 of 158
God slowly kills a baby
[2 SAMUEL 12:14-18]
7 dead
85 of 158
Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord
[2 SAMUEL 21:1-9]
3,400 dead EST.
86 of 158
David's mighty men and their amazing killings
[2 SAMUEL 23:1]
[1CHRONICLES 11:1]
70,000 dead
87 of 158
God killed 70,000 because of David had a census that God (or Satan) told him to do
[2 SAMUEL 24:15]
[1CHRONICLES 21:14]
2 dead
88 of 158
Solomon murdered Job and Shimei (per David's deathbed wish)
[1 KINGS 2:29-46]
1 dead
89 of 158
A tale of two prophets
[1 KINGS 13:11-24]
1 dead
90 of 158
Jeroboam's son: God kills another child
[1 KINGS 14:17]
10 dead EST.
91 of 158
Jeroboam's family
[1 KINGS 15:29]
20 dead EST.
92 of 158
Baasha's family and friends
[1 KINGS 16:11-12]
1 dead
93 of 158
Zimri burns to death
[1 KINGS 16:18-19]
3,000 dead EST.
94 of 158
The drought of Elijah
[1 KINGS 17:1]
[LUKE 4:25]
[JAMES 5:17-18]
450 dead
95 of 158
Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest
[1 KINGS 18:22-40]
10,000 dead EST.
96 of 158
The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians
[1 KINGS 20:20-21]
100,000 dead
97 of 158
God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills
[1 KINGS 20:28-29]
27,000 dead
98 of 158
God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them
[1 KINGS 20:30]
1 dead
99 of 158
God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet
[1 KINGS 20:35-36]
1 dead
100 of 158
God killed Ahab for not killing a captured king
[1 KINGS 20:42]
[1 KINGS 22:35]
102 dead
101 of 158
God burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill
[2KINGS 1:10-12]
1 dead
102 of 158
God killed Ahaziah for asking the wrong God
[2KINGS 1:16-17]
[2CHRONICLES 22:7-9]
42 dead
103 of 158
God sent bears to kill 42 boys for making fun of a prophet's bald head
[2KINGS 2:23-24]
5,000 dead EST.
104 of 158
The Lord delivered the Moabites
[2KINGS 3:18-25]
1 dead
105 of 158
A skeptic is trampled to death
[2KINGS 7:2-20]
7,000 dead EST.
106 of 158
God's seven year famine
[2KINGS 8:1]
1 dead
107 of 158
Jehoram of Israel
[2KINGS 9:24]
1 dead
108 of 158
Jezebel
[2KINGS 9:33-37]
70 dead
109 of 158
Ahab's sons: 70 heads in two baskets
[2KINGS 10:6-10]
20 dead EST.
110 of 158
Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests
[2KINGS 10:11]
42 dead
111 of 158
Jehu killed Ahaziah's family
[2KINGS 10:12-13]
[2CHRONICLES 22:7-9]
20 dead EST.
112 of 158
Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family
[2KINGS 10:17]
1,000 dead EST.
113 of 158
Jehu assembled the followers of Baal and then slaughtered them all
[2KINGS 10:18-25]
2 dead
114 of 158
Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah
[2KINGS 11:17-20]
10 dead EST.
115 of 158
God sent lions to eat those who didn't fear him enough
[2KINGS 17:25-26]
185,000 dead
116 of 158
An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers
[2KINGS 19:34]
[2KINGS 37:36]
1 dead
117 of 158
God caused King Sennacherib to be killed by his sons
[2KINGS 19:37]
[TOBIT 1:21]
100 dead EST.
118 of 158
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places
[2KINGS 23:20]
50,000 dead EST.
119 of 158
Just another holy war
[1CHRONICLES 5:18-22]
500,000 dead
120 of 158
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers
[2CHRONICLES 13:17-18]
1 dead
121 of 158
Jeroboam
[2CHRONICLES 13:20]
1,000,000 dead
122 of 158
God killed a million Ethiopians
[2CHRONICLES 14:9-14]
30,000 dead EST.
123 of 158
Friendly fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other
[2CHRONICLES 20:22-25]
1 dead
124 of 158
God made Jehoram's bowels fall out
[2CHRONICLES 21:14-19]
3 dead EST.
125 of 158
God killed Jehoram's sons
[2CHRONICLES 22:1]
1 dead
126 of 158
Ahaziah of Judah
[2CHRONICLES 22:7-8]
10,000 dead EST.
127 of 158
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah
[2CHRONICLES 24:20-25]
1,000 dead EST.
128 of 158
God destroyed Amaziah
[2CHRONICLES 25:15-27]
10,000 dead EST.
129 of 158
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria
[2CHRONICLES 28:1-5]
120,000 dead
130 of 158
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him
[2CHRONICLES 28:6]
10,000 dead EST.
131 of 158
The fall of Jerusalem
[2CHRONICLES 36:16-17]
75,813 dead
132 of 158
The Purim killings: God hath done these things
[ESTHER 2:1]
[ESTHER 9:1]
[ESTHER 10:4]
60 dead EST.
133 of 158
God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves
[JOB 1:18-19]
1 dead
134 of 158
Hananiah
[JEREMIAH 28:15-16]
1 dead
135 of 158
Ezekiel's wife
[EZEKIEL 24:15-18]
2 dead
136 of 158
Oh! Susanna
[DANIEL 13:6-62]
1 dead
137 of 158
Judith is blessed above all women (for cutting off a sleeping man's head)
[JUDITH 13:6-10]
1,000 dead EST.
138 of 158
The Judith massacre: hang ye up this head upon our walls
[JUDITH 15:1-6]
2 dead
139 of 158
Mathathias's double murder
[1MACCABEES 2:24-25]
100 dead EST.
140 of 158
Mathathias and his friends slay the wicked sinners
[1MACCABEES 2:44]
1 dead
141 of 158
God killed Andronicus, the sacrilegious wretch
[2MACCABEES 4:38]
1 dead
142 of 158
A Jewish mob killed Lysimachus, the sacrilegious fellow
[2MACCABEES 4:42]
4,900 dead EST.
143 of 158
God helped Judas Machabeus destroy the wicked
[1MACCABEES 3:1-26]
[2MACCABEES 8:5-6]
3,000 dead
144 of 158
Judas and his unarmed men kill 3000 of Gorgias's soldiers
[1MACCABEES 3:44]
-
[1MACCABEES 4:24]
17,000 dead EST.
145 of 158
The Hanukkah killings
[1MACCABEES 4:34]
-
[1MACCABEES 5:7]
37,000 dead EST.
146 of 158
The Machabees brothers slaughter the heathens
[1MACCABEES 5:21-25]
147,002 dead
147 of 158
Nicanor's army: The Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men
[1MACCABEES 7:32-47]
[2MACCABEES 8:24]
[2MACCABEES 15:27]
1,200 dead
148 of 158
Jonathan and Simon destroy the wicked out
of Israel
[1MACCABEES 9:46-49]
[2MACCABEES 8:30-33]
[2MACCABEES 10:61]
21,400 dead EST.
149 of 158
Five heavenly horsemen cast darts and
fireballs at the enemy
[2MACCABEES 8:32]
[2MACCABEES 10:38]
1 dead
150 of 158
God killed Antiochus with an incurable bowel disease
[2MACCABEES 9:5-28]
40,000 dead
151 of 158
Idumeans, traitors, and Jews in two towers
[2MACCABEES 10:16-17]
35,000 dead
152 of 158
Nicanor's head: A manifest sign of the help
of God
[1MACCABEES 7:33-48]
[2MACCABEES 15:1-35]
3,000 dead
153 of 158
Aliens at Cades
[1MACCABEES 11:74]
2,000 dead
154 of 158
John burns to death 2000 in the tower of
Azotus
[1MACCABEES 16:10]
1,000 dead EST.
155 of 158
God sent wasps to slowly destroy people
[WISDOM 12:8-9]
2 dead
156 of 158
Ananias and Sapphira
[ACTS 5:5-10]
1 dead
157 of 158
Herod Aggripa
[ACTS 12:23]
1 dead
158 of 158
Jesus
[ROMANS 8:32]
[1 PETER 1:24]
* EST. - Estimated figure based on the Biblical event itself, and realistic scenario modelling
CREDIT
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