God's Killings in the Bible

"I kill... I wound... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh."

Deuteronomy 32:39-42

Below is a table based off of Steve Well's "Drunk With Blood: God's Killings in the Bible" (credit to http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com). It contains a compilation of all of the times in the Bible in which the god of the Bible either directly kills someone or helps in some way. Some of these may be disputable, but I do not feel like debating individual events, so please don't comment about it. With each event is a biblical reference, book chapter and verse. Additionally, the number of people killed in the event is listed. When an exact number is given, it is listed. In some cases however, for example when God flooded the world and killed all of the people, plants, baby koalas and other animals, a number is never given. Estimates have been made; again, the estimates may be disputable. Please don't comment about their accuracy or inaccuracy. I really don't feel like getting a hundred comments about how many people may have been in a certain town or whatever.

Killing Event	Scriptural Reference	Exact Number Given In Bible	Estimated Number Killed
The Flood of Noah	Gen 7:23	-	20,000,000
Abraham's war to rescue Lot	Gen 14:17-19	-	1000
Sodom and Gomorrah	Gen 19:24	-	2,000
Lot's wife	Gen 19:26	1	1
Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord	Gen 38:7	1	1
Onan for spilling his seed	Gen 38:10	1	1
God's seven year, world-wide famine	Gen 41:25-54	-	70,000
The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail	Ex 9:25	-	300,000
God killed all first born Egyptian children	Ex 12:29-30	-	500,000
God drowned the Egyptian army	Ex 14:8-26	600	5,000
Amalekites	Ex 17:13	-	1,000
Who is on the Lord's side?	Ex 32:27-28	3,000	3,000
God plagued the people because of Aaron's calf	Ex 32:35	-	1,000
God burns Aaron's sons to death	Lev 10:1-3	2	2
A blasphemer is stoned to death	Lev 24:10-23	1	1
God burned people to death for complaining	Num 11:1	-	100
God plagued the people for complaining about the food	Num 11:33	-	10,000
Ten scouts are killed for their honest report	Num 14:35-36	10	10
A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day	Num 15:32-35	1	1
The opposing party is buried alive (with their families)	Num 16:27	3	9
250 burned to death for burning incense	Num 16:35	250	250
For complaining about God's killings	Num 16:49	14,700	14,700
The massacre of the Aradites	Num 21:1-3	-	3,000
God sent snakes to bite people for complaining	Num 21:6	-	100
Phinehas' double murder: A killing to end God's killings	Num 25:1-11	24,002	24,002
The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women alive?	Num 31:1-35	6	200,000
God slowly kills the Israelite army	Dt 2:14-16	-	500,000
God the giant killer	Dt 2:21-22	-	5,000
God hardens King Sihon's heart so he can kill him and all his people	Dt 2:33-34	1	5,000
Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites	Dt 3:3-6	1	60,000
The Jericho Massacre	Jos 6:21	-	1,000
Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death	Jos 7:10-12,24-26	1	5
The Ai massacre	Jos 8:1-25	12,000	12,000
God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the daylight	Jos 10:10-11	-	5,000
Five kings killed and hung on trees	Jos 10:26	5	10,000
Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God commanded	Jos 10:28-42	7	7,000
Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities	Jos 11:8-12	2	20,000
The Anakim: More giant killing	Jos 11:20-21	-	5,000
The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites	Jg 1:4	10,000	10,000
The Jerusalem Massacre	Jg 1:8	-	1,000
Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots	Jg 1:9-25	-	5,000
The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim	Jg 3:7-10	1	1,000
Ehud delivers a message from God	Jg 3:15-22	1	1
God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites	Jg 3:28-29	10,000	10,000
Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad	Jg 3.31	600	600
Barak and God massacre the Canaanites	Jg 4:15-16	-	1,000
Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull	Jg 4:18-22	1	1
Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow	Jg 7:22	120,000	120,000
A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit	Jg 9:23-57	1,001	2,000
The Ammonite Massacre	Jg 11:32-33	-	20,000
Jephthah's Daughter	Jg 11:39	1	1
42,000 killed for failing the "shibboleth" test	Jg 12.4-7,Heb 11.32	42,000	42,000
Samson murders 30 men for their clothes	Jg 14:19	30	30
Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass	Jg 15:14-15	1,000	1,000
Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack	Jg 16:27-30	3,000	3,000
A holy civil war (called by rotting concubine body part messages)	Jg 20:35-37	65,100	65,100
The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen virgins	Jg 21.10-14	-	4,000
God kills Eli's sons along with 34,000 Israelite soldiers	1Sam 2:25,1Sam 4:11	34,002	34,002
God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts	1Sam 5:1-12	-	3,000
God killed 50,070 for looking into the ark of the Lord	1Sam 6:19	50,070	50,070
The Lord thundered great thunder upon the Philistines	1Sam 7:10-11	-	1,000
Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired body-part message)	1Sam 11:6-13	-	1,000
Jonathan's very fist slaughter (not counting the one before)	1Sam 14:12-14	20	20
God forces the Philistines to kill each other	1Sam 14:20	-	1,000
The Amalekite genocide	1Sam 15:2-3	-	10,000
Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord	1Sam 15:32-33	1	1
David or Elhanan killed Goliath	1Sam 17.51,2Sam 21.19	1	1
David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to buy his first wife)	1Sam 18.27	200	200
The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines	1Sam 23:2-5	-	10,000
God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff)	1Sam 25:38	1	1
David committed genocides for the Philistines	1Sam 27.8-11	-	60,000
David spends the day killing Amalekites	1Sam 30:17	-	1,000
God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites	1Sam 31:2,1Chr 10:6	4	100
David killed the messenger	2Sam 1.15	1	1
David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and feet, and hung up their dead bodies	2Sam 4.12	2	2
God helps David smite Philistines from the front and the rear	2Sam 5:19-25	-	2,000
God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling	2Sam 6:6-7,1Chr 13:9-10	1	1
David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest	2Sam 8.2	-	667
The Lord gave David victory wherever he went	2Sam 8.5,10.18	65,850	66,850
David killed every male in Edom	2Sam 8.13,1Kg 11.15-16, 1Chr 18.12, Psalm 60:1	15,000	65,000
Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon	2Sam 11.1,1Chr 20.1	-	1,000
God slowly kills a baby	2Sam 12:14-18	1	1
Famine and human sacrfice: Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord	2Sam 21:1-9	7	3,000
David's mighty men and their amazing killings	2Sam 23,1Chr 11	1,403	3,400
A couple hundred thousand die because David had a census	2Sam 24:15,1Chr 21:14	70,000	200,000
Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by having Joab and Shimei murdered	1Kg 2:29-34,2:44-46	2	2
A tale of two prophets	1Kg 13:11-24	1	1
Jeroboam's son: God kills another child	1Kg 14:17	1	1
Jeroboam's family	1Kg 15:29	-	10
Baasha's family and friends	1Kg 16:11-12	-	20
Zimri burns to death	1Kg 16.18-19	1	1
The drought of Elijah	1Kg 17.1, Lk 4.25, James 5.17-18	-	3,000
Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest	1Kg 18.22-40	450	450
The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians	1Kg 20:20-21	-	10,000
God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills	1Kg 20:28-29	100,000	100,000
God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them	1Kg 20:30	27,000	27,000
God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet	1Kg 20:35-36	1	1
God kills Ahab for not killing a captured king	1Kg 20:42,22:35	1	1
God burned to death 102 men for asking Elijah to come down from his hill	2Kg 1:10-12	102	102
God killed King Ahaziah for asking the wrong God	2Kg 1:16-17;2Chr 22:7-9	1	1
God sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of a prophet's bald head	2Kg 2:23-24	42	42
The Lord delivered the Moabites	2Kg 3:18-25	-	5,000
A skeptic is trampled to death	2Kg 7.2-20	1	1
Another seven year famine	2Kg 8:1	-	7,000
Jehoram of Israel	2Kg 9:24	1	1
Jezebel	2Kg 9:33-37	1	1
Ahab's sons: Seventy heads in two heaps	2Kg 10:6-10	70	70
Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests	2Kg 10:11	-	20
Jehu killed Ahaziah's family	2Kg 10.12-13, 2Chr 22.7-9	42	42
Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family	2Kg 10:17	-	20
Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then slaughters them all	2Kg 10.18-25	-	1,000
Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah	2Kg 11.17-20	2	2
God sends lions to eat those that don't fear him enough	2Kg 17:25-26	-	10
An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers	2Kg 19:34, Is 37:36	185,000	185,000
God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons	2Kg 19:37	1	1
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places	2Kg 23.20	-	100
Another holy war	1Chr 5:18-22	-	50,000
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers	2Chr 13:17-18	500,000	500,000
Jeroboam	2Chr 13:20	1	1
God killed a million Ethiopians	2Chr 14:9-14	1,000,000	1,000,000
Friendly Fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other	2Chr 20:22-25	-	30,000
God made Jehoram's bowels fall out	2Chr 21:14-19	1	1
God killed Jehoram's sons	2Chr 22:1	-	3
Ahaziah (of Judah)	2Chr 22.7-9	1	1
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah	2Chr 24:20-25	1	10,000
God destroyed Amaziah	2Chr 25:15-27	1	1000
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria	2Chr 28:1-5	-	10,000
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him	2Chr 28:6	120,000	120,000
The fall of Jerusalem	2Chr 36:16-17	-	10,000
God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves	Job 1:18-19	10	60
Hananiah	Jeremiah 28:15-16	1	1
Ezekiel's wife	Ezek 24:15-18	1	1
Annanias and Sapphira	Acts 5:1-10	2	2
Herod	Acts 12:23	1	1
Jesus	Rom 8:32,1Pet 1.18-20	1	1
Total		2,476,636	24,635,205

The following is a table of Satan's killings. Same thing: if you feel that Satan is not responsible for any of these deaths, or that the estimate is unreasonable, please do not waste comment space.

Killing Event	Scriptural Reference	Exact Number Given In Bible	Estimated Number Killed
God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves	Job 1:18-19	10	60
Total		10	60

You may draw your own conclusions. (-:

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Basic Constituents of an Argument (How to Justify a Claim)

“If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
-Leviticus 20:13

I am going to go through the steps necessary to make a valid argument in the order they must be done. An argument consists of a series of premises leading to a necessary conclusion. If any of these premises are invalid, the entire argument is invalid. This does not mean the conclusion is false, it simply means that the particular argument has in no way shown the claim to be either true or false. This is comparable to if someone claims to have completed a mathematical proof that one plus one equals two. If you find a wrong step in their math, you have not proved their conclusion wrong or right, you have simply shown that their argument is flawed and therefore does nothing to demonstrate the truth of the claim.
1. State an observation or accepted fact. This part is easy; the first premise can be anything, so long as it is true and valid. If this is under question, then the statement itself must be justified. As a general rule, this should not be based upon any negative statements or subjective statements which may be questionable. Negative statements are acceptable, however, when such statements can be implicitly accepted as true, such as in the reptile example below.
Good examples:
-There exists at least one cat which does not have a tail
-No reptiles have fur
-Some of the jars in this cupboard are cracked
Bad examples:
-Abortion is bad
-Three sided dice do not exist
-There is a nonmaterial dog that floats by my ear and whispers nonsense to me
The first argument is flawed because it is a subjective statement, and cannot be immediately accepted as true. The second is a negative, and while it does turn out to be true, it must be shown to be true; it is not inherently obvious that this is a valid premise. The third is a claim with no verifiable evidence, and it would be faulty for others to blindly accept this as true.
2. Follow the claim with one or more premises that necessarily follow from either the claim or a previous premise, following the same conditions as above. It must be shown that if premise 1 is true, then premise 2 is a logically valid conclusion. For example:
Premise 1: No reptiles have fur
Premise 2: All snakes are reptiles
Conclusion 1: No snakes have fur
3. Come to a final conclusion. If all premises leading up to the conclusion are valid and logically derived, the conclusion can be accepted as valid, Validity does not imply truth. If all premises appear to  be logical extensions of those prior, it simply means that the argument is justified, not necessarily right or wrong.  I will use the topics presented in this post to explain fallacies presented in later posts.

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