Killing Event |
Reference |
Bible’s Number |
Estimate |
1 |
The Flood of Noah |
Gen 7:23 |
|
20,000,000 |
2 |
Abraham’s war to rescue Lot |
Gen 14:17-19 |
|
1,000 |
3 |
Sodom and Gomorrah |
Gen 19:24 |
|
2,000 |
4 |
Lot’s wife |
Gen 19:26 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
While they were sore, Dinah’s brethren slew all the males |
Gen 34:1-31, Judith 9:2-3 |
2 |
1,000 |
6 |
Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord |
Gen 38:7 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
Onan for spilling his seed |
Gen 38:10 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
A seven year worldwide famine |
Gen 41:25-54 |
|
70,000 |
9 |
There will be blood: The first plague of Egypt |
Ex 7:15-27 , Wis 11:7-8 |
|
10,000 |
10 |
The seventh plague: hail |
Ex 9:25 |
|
300,000 |
11 |
Firstborn Egyptian children |
Ex 12:29-30 |
|
500,000 |
12 |
The Lord took off their chariot wheels |
Ex 14:8-26 |
600 |
5,000 |
13 |
Amalekites |
Ex 17:13 |
|
1,000 |
14 |
Who is on the Lord’s side?: Forcing friends and family to kill each other |
Ex 32:27-28 |
3,000 |
3,000 |
15 |
Aaron’s golden calf |
Ex 32:35 |
|
1,000 |
16 |
God burns Aaron’s sons to death for offering “strange fire” |
Lev 10:1-3 |
2 |
2 |
17 |
A blasphemer is stoned to death |
Lev 24:10-23 |
1 |
1 |
18 |
When the people complained, God burned them to death |
Num 11:1 |
|
100 |
19 |
While the flesh was still between their teeth, the Lord smote them will a very great plague |
Num 11:33 |
|
10,000 |
20 |
Ten scouts are killed for their honest report |
Num 14:35-45 |
10 |
110 |
21 |
A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day is stoned to death |
Num 15:32-35 |
1 |
1 |
22 |
Korah, his companions, and their families are buried alive |
Num 16:27 |
3 |
9 |
23 |
God burns 250 people to death for burning incense |
Num 16:35 |
250 |
250 |
24 |
God kills 14,700 for complaining about God’s killings |
Num 16:49 |
14,700 |
14,700 |
25 |
The massacre of the Aradies |
Num 21:1-2 |
|
3,000 |
26 |
God sent serpents to bite people for complaining about the lack of food and water |
Num 21:6 |
|
100 |
27 |
Phineas’s double murder: A killing to end God’s killing |
Num 25:1-11 |
24,002 |
24,002 |
28 |
The Midianite massacre: Have ye saved all the women alive? |
Num 31:1-35 |
6 |
200,000 |
29 |
God slowly killed the Israelite army |
Dt 2:14-16 |
|
500,000 |
30 |
God the giant killer |
Dt 2:21-22 |
|
5,000 |
31 |
God hardens King Sihon’s heart so all his people can be killed |
Dt 2:33-34 |
1 |
5,000 |
32 |
Og and all the men women, and children in 60 cities |
Dt 3:6 |
1 |
60,000 |
33 |
The Jericho massacre |
Jos 6:21 |
|
1,000 |
34 |
Achan and his family |
Jos 7:10-26 |
1 |
5 |
35 |
The Ai massacre |
Jos 8:1-25 |
12,000 |
12,000 |
36 |
God stops the sun so Joshua can get his killing done in the daylight |
Jos 10:10-11 |
|
5,000 |
37 |
Five kings killed and hung on trees |
Jos 10:26 |
5 |
10,000 |
38 |
Joshua utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord commanded |
Jos 10:28-42 |
7 |
7,000 |
39 |
The genocide of twenty cities: There was not any left to breathe |
Jos 11:8-12 |
2 |
20,000 |
40 |
The Anakim: some more giant killing |
Jos 11:20-21 |
|
5,000 |
41 |
The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites |
Jg 1:4 |
10,000 |
10,000 |
42 |
The Jerusalem massacre |
Jg 1:8 |
|
1,000 |
43 |
Five massacres, a wedding, and God-proof iron chariots |
Jg 1:9-25 |
|
5,000 |
44 |
The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim |
Jg 3:7-10 |
1 |
1,000 |
45 |
Ehud delivers a message from God |
Jg 3:15-22 |
1 |
1 |
46 |
God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites |
Jg 3:28-29 |
10,000 |
10,000 |
47 |
Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad |
Jg 3:31 |
600 |
600 |
48 |
Barak and God massacre the Canaanites |
Jg 4:15-16 |
|
1,000 |
49 |
Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man’s skull |
Jg 4:18-22 |
1 |
1 |
50 |
Gideon’s story: The Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow |
Jg 7:22 |
120,000 |
120,000 |
51 |
A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God’s evil spirit |
Jg 9:23-27 |
1,001 |
2,000 |
52 |
The Ammonite massacre |
Jg 11:32-33 |
|
20,000 |
53 |
Jephthah’s daughter |
Jg 11:39 |
1 |
1 |
54 |
42,000 die for failing the “shibboleth” test |
Jg 12:4-7 |
42,000 |
42,000 |
55 |
Samson murdered 30 men for their clothes |
Jg 14:19 |
30 |
30 |
56 |
Samson killed 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass |
Jg 15:14-15 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
57 |
Samson killed 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack |
Jg 16:27-30 |
3,000 |
3,000 |
58 |
A holy civil war (it had something to do with rotting concubine body part messages) |
Jg 20:35-37 |
65,100 |
65,100 |
59 |
The end of Judges: two genocides and 200 stolen virgins |
Jg 21:10-14 |
|
4,000 |
60 |
God killed Eli’s sons and 34,000 Israelite soldiers |
1 Sam 2:25, 4:11 |
34,002 |
34,002 |
61 |
God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts |
1 Sam 5:1-12 |
|
3,000 |
62 |
50,070 killed for looking into the ark of the Lord |
1 Sam 6:19 |
50,070 |
50,070 |
63 |
The Lord thundered a great thunder upon the Philistines |
1 Sam 7:10-11 |
|
1,000 |
64 |
Another Ammonite massacre (and another God-inspired body part message) |
1 Sam 11:6-13 |
|
1,000 |
65 |
Jonathan’s first slaughter |
1 Sam 14:12-14 |
20 |
20 |
66 |
God forces the Philistines to kill each other |
1 Sam 14:20 |
|
1,000 |
67 |
The Amalekite genocide |
1 Sam 15:2-3 |
|
10,000 |
68 |
Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord |
1 Sam 15:32-33 |
1 |
1 |
69 |
In the valley of Elah: Goliath |
1 Sam 17:51, 2 Sam 21:19 |
1 |
1 |
70 |
David buys a wife with 200 Philistine foreskins |
1 Sam 18:27 |
200 |
200 |
71 |
The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines |
1 Sam 23:2-5 |
|
10,000 |
72 |
God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff) |
1 Sam 25:38 |
1 |
1 |
73 |
David commits random acts of genocide for the Philistines |
1 Sam 27:8-11 |
|
60,000 |
74 |
David spends the day killing Amalekites |
1 Sam 30:17 |
|
1,000 |
75 |
God kills Saul, his sons, and his soldiers (because Saul didn’t kill all the Amalekites) |
1 Sam 31:2, 2 Chr 10:6 |
4 |
100 |
76 |
David kills the messenger |
2 Sam 1:15 |
1 |
1 |
77 |
David killed, mutilated, and hung Rechab and Baanah |
2 Sam 4:12 |
2 |
2 |
78 |
God helps David smite the Philistines from the front and the rear |
2 Sam 5:19-25 |
|
2,000 |
79 |
God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling |
2 Sam 6:6-7, 1 Chr 13:9-10 |
1 |
1 |
80 |
David killed two-thirds of the Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest |
2 Sam 8:2 |
|
667 |
81 |
And the Lord gave David victory wherever he went |
2 Sam 8 – 10 |
65,850 |
66,850 |
82 |
David killed every male in Edom |
2 Sam 8:13-14, 1 Kg 11:15-16, 1 Chr 18:12, Ps 60:1 |
15,000 |
25,000 |
83 |
Thus did David do to all the children of Ammon |
2 Sam 11:1, 1 Chr 20:1 |
|
1,000 |
84 |
God slowly kills a baby |
2 Sam 12:14-18 |
1 |
1 |
85 |
Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord |
2 Sam 21:1-9 |
7 |
3,000 |
86 |
David’s mighty men and their amazing killings |
2 Sam 23, 1 Chr 11 |
1,403 |
3,400 |
87 |
God killed 70,000 because of David had a census that God (or Satan) told him to do |
2 Sam 24:15, 1 Chr 21:14 |
70,000 |
200,000 |
88 |
Solomon murdered Job and Shimei (per David’s deathbed wish) |
1 Kg 2:29-46 |
2 |
2 |
89 |
A tale of two prophets |
1 Kg 13:11-24 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
Jeroboam’s son: God kills another child |
1 Kg 14:17 |
1 |
1 |
91 |
Jeroboam’s family |
1 Kg 15:29 |
|
10 |
92 |
Baasha’s family and friends |
1 Kg 16:11-12 |
|
20 |
93 |
Zimri burns to death |
1 Kg 16:18-19 |
1 |
1 |
94 |
The drought of Elijah |
1 Kg 17:1, Luke 4:25, James 5:17-18 |
|
3,000 |
95 |
Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest |
1 Kg 18:22-40 |
450 |
450 |
96 |
The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians |
1 Kg 20:20-21 |
|
10,000 |
97 |
God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills |
1 Kg 20:28-29 |
100,000 |
100,000 |
98 |
God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them |
1 Kg 20:30 |
27,000 |
27,000 |
99 |
God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet |
1 Kg 20:35-36 |
1 |
1 |
100 |
God killed Ahab for not killing a captured king |
1 Kg 20:42, 22:35 |
1 |
1 |
101 |
God burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill |
2 Kg 1:10-12 |
102 |
102 |
102 |
God killed Ahaziah for asking the wrong God |
2 Kg 1:16-17, 2 Chr 22:7-9 |
1 |
1 |
103 |
God sent bears to kill 42 boys for making fun of a prophet’s bald head |
2 Kg 2:23-24 |
42 |
42 |
104 |
The Lord delivered the Moabites |
2 Kg 3:18-25 |
|
5,000 |
105 |
A skeptic is trampled to death |
2 Kg 7:2-20 |
1 |
1 |
106 |
God’s seven year famine |
2 Kg 8:1 |
|
7,000 |
107 |
Jehoram of Israel |
2 Kg 9:24 |
1 |
1 |
108 |
Jezebel |
2 Kg 9:33-37 |
1 |
1 |
109 |
Ahab’s sons: 70 heads in two baskets |
2 Kg 10:6-10 |
70 |
70 |
110 |
Ahab’s hometown family, friends, and priests |
2 Kg 10:11 |
|
20 |
111 |
Jehu killed Ahaziah’s family |
2 Kg 10:12-13, 2 Chr 22:7-9 |
42 |
42 |
112 |
Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab’s family |
2 Kg 10:17 |
|
20 |
113 |
Jehu assembled the followers of Baal and then slaughtered them all |
2 Kg 10:18-25 |
|
1,000 |
114 |
Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah |
2 Kg 11:17-20 |
2 |
2 |
115 |
God sent lions to eat those who didn’t fear him enough |
2 Kg 17:25-26 |
|
10 |
116 |
An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers |
2 Kg 19:34, 37:36 |
185,000 |
185,000 |
117 |
God caused King Sennacherib to be killed by his sons |
2 Kg 19:37, Tobit 1:21 |
1 |
1 |
118 |
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places |
2 Kg 23:20 |
|
100 |
119 |
Just another holy war |
1 Chr 5:18-22 |
|
50,000 |
120 |
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers |
2 Chr 13:17-18 |
500,000 |
500,000 |
121 |
Jeroboam |
2 Chr 13:20 |
1 |
1 |
122 |
God killed a million Ethiopians |
2 Chr 14:9-14 |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
123 |
Friendly fire: God forced “a great multitude” to kill each other |
2 Chr 20:22-25 |
|
30,000 |
124 |
God made Jehoram’s bowels fall out |
2 Chr 21:14-19 |
1 |
1 |
125 |
God killed Jehoram’s sons |
2 Chr 22:1 |
|
3 |
126 |
Ahaziah of Judah |
2 Chr 22:7-8 |
1 |
1 |
127 |
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah |
2 Chr 24:20-25 |
1 |
10,000 |
128 |
God destroyed Amaziah |
2 Chr 25:15-27 |
1 |
1,000 |
129 |
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria |
2 Chr 28:1-5 |
1 |
10,000 |
130 |
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him |
2 Chr 28:6 |
120,000 |
120,000 |
131 |
The fall of Jerusalem |
2 Chr 36:16-17 |
|
10,000 |
132 |
The Purim killings: God hath done these things |
Esther 2 – 9, 10:4 |
75,813 |
75,813 |
133 |
God and Satan kill Job’s children and slaves |
Job 1:18-19 |
10 |
60 |
134 |
Hananiah |
Jer 28:15-16 |
1 |
1 |
135 |
Ezekiel’s wife |
Ezek 24:15-18 |
1 |
1 |
136 |
Oh! Susanna |
Dan 13:6-62 |
2 |
2 |
137 |
Judith is blessed above all women (for cutting off a sleeping man’s head) |
Judith 13:6-10 |
1 |
1 |
138 |
The Judith massacre: hang ye up this head upon our walls |
Judith 15:1-6 |
|
1,000 |
139 |
Mathathias’s double murder |
1 Mac 2:24-25 |
2 |
2 |
140 |
Mathathias and his friends slay the wicked sinners |
1 Mac 2:44 |
|
100 |
141 |
God killed Andronicus, the sacrilegious wretch |
2 Mac 4:38 |
1 |
1 |
142 |
A Jewish mob killed Lysimachus, the sacrilegious fellow |
2 Mac 4:42 |
1 |
1 |
143 |
God helped Judas Machabeus destroy the wicked |
1 Mac 3:1-26, 2 Mac 8:5-6 |
800 |
4,900 |
144 |
Judas and his unarmed men kill 3000 of Gorgias’s soldiers |
1 Mac 3:44-4:24 |
3,000 |
3,000 |
145 |
The Hanukkah killings |
1 Mac 4:34-5:7 |
5,000 |
17,000 |
146 |
The Machabees brothers slaughter the heathens |
1 Mac 5:21-51 |
11,000 |
37,000 |
147 |
Nicanor’s army: The Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men |
1 Mac 7:32-47, 2 Mac 8:24, 15:27 |
147,002 |
147,002 |
148 |
Jonathan and Simon destroy the wicked out of Israel |
1 Mac 9:46-49, 2 Mac 8:30-33, 10:61 |
1,000 |
1,200 |
149 |
Five heavenly horsemen cast darts and fireballs at the enemy |
2 Mac 8:32-10:38 |
21,103 |
21,400 |
150 |
God killed Antiochus with an incurable bowel disease |
2 Mac 9:5-28 |
1 |
1 |
151 |
Idumeans, traitors, and Jews in two towers |
2 Mac 10:16-17 |
40,000 |
40,100 |
152 |
Nicanor’s head: A manifest sign of the help of God |
1 Mac 7:33-48, 2 Mac 15:1-35 |
35,000 |
35,000 |
153 |
Aliens at Cades |
1 Mac 11:74 |
3,000 |
3,000 |
154 |
John burns to death 2000 in the tower of Azotus |
1 Mac 16:10 |
2,000 |
2,000 |
155 |
God sent wasps to slowly destroy people |
Wisdom 12:8-9 |
|
1,000 |
156 |
Ananias and Sapphira |
Acts 5:5-10 |
2 |
2 |
157 |
Herod Aggripa |
Acts 12:23 |
1 |
1 |
158 |
Jesus |
Rom 8:32, 1 Pet 1:1820 |
1 |
1 |
|
Totals |
2,821,364 |
24,994,828 |