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.
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.
You may draw your own conclusions. (-:
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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I am personally inclined to think that this is a bit unfair given that Satan is only present in the Jewish scriptures marginally at most (with the exception of the book of Job).
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