The table shows two numbers: the number given by the Bible, if any, and an estimate, when no biblical number is available.
Much more information about God's killings, with a chapter on each of the 135 killing events, can be found int the book:
DWB
Chapter
| Killing Event
| Scriptural Reference
| Biblical number
| Estimate
|
| 1
| The Flood of Noah
| Gen 7:23
| -
| 20,000,000
|
| 2
| Abraham's war to rescue Lot
| Gen 14:17-19
| -
| 1000
|
| 3
| Sodom and Gomorrah
| Gen 19:24
| -
| 2,000
|
| 4
| Lot's wife
| Gen 19:26
| 1
| 1
|
| 5
| Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord
| Gen 38:7
| 1
| 1
|
| 6
| Onan for spilling his seed
| Gen 38:10
| 1
| 1
|
| 7
| God's seven year, world-wide famine
| Gen 41:25-54
| -
| 70,000
|
| 8
| The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail
| Ex 9:25
| -
| 300,000
|
| 9
| God killed all first born Egyptian children
| Ex 12:29-30
| -
| 500,000
|
| 10
| God drowned the Egyptian army
| Ex 14:8-26
| 600
| 5,000
|
| 11
| Amalekites
| Ex 17:13
| -
| 1,000
|
| 12
| Who is on the Lord's side?
| Ex 32:27-28
| 3,000
| 3,000
|
| 13
| God plagued the people because of Aaron's calf
| Ex 32:35
| -
| 1,000
|
| 14
| God burns Aaron's sons to death
| Lev 10:1-3
| 2
| 2
|
| 15
| A blasphemer is stoned to death
| Lev 24:10-23
| 1
| 1
|
| 16
| God burned people to death for complaining
| Num 11:1
| -
| 100
|
| 17
| God plagued the people for complaining about the food
| Num 11:33
| -
| 10,000
|
| 18
| Ten scouts are killed for their honest report
| Num 14:35-36
| 10
| 10
|
| 19
| A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day
| Num 15:32-35
| 1
| 1
|
| 20
| The opposing party is buried alive (with their families)
| Num 16:27
| 3
| 9
|
| 21
| 250 burned to death for burning incense
| Num 16:35
| 250
| 250
|
| 22
| For complaining about God's killings
| Num 16:49
| 14,700
| 14,700
|
| 23
| The massacre of the Aradites
| Num 21:1-3
| -
| 3,000
|
| 24
| God sent snakes to bite people for complaining
| Num 21:6
| -
| 100
|
| 25
| Phinehas' double murder: A killing to end God's killings
| Num 25:1-11
| 24,002
| 24,002
|
| 26
| The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women alive?
| Num 31:1-35
| 6
| 200,000
|
| 27
| God slowly kills the Israelite army
| Dt 2:14-16
| -
| 500,000
|
| 28
| God the giant killer
| Dt 2:21-22
| -
| 5,000
|
| 29
| God hardens King Sihon's heart so he can kill him and all his people
| Dt 2:33-34
| 1
| 5,000
|
| 30
| Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites
| Dt 3:3-6
| 1
| 60,000
|
| 31
| The Jericho Massacre
| Jos 6:21
| -
| 1,000
|
| 32
| Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death
| Jos 7:10-12, 24-26
| 1
| 5
|
| 33
| The Ai massacre
| Jos 8:1-25
| 12,000
| 12,000
|
| 34
| God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the daylight
| Jos 10:10-11
| -
| 5,000
|
| 35
| Five kings killed and hung on trees
| Jos 10:26
| 5
| 10,000
|
| 36
| Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God commanded
| Jos 10:28-42
| 7
| 7,000
|
| 37
| Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities
| Jos 11:8-12
| 2
| 20,000
|
| 38
| The Anakim: More giant killing
| Jos 11:20-21
| -
| 5,000
|
| 39
| The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites
| Jg 1:4
| 10,000
| 10,000
|
| 40
| The Jerusalem Massacre
| Jg 1:8
| -
| 1,000
|
| 41
| Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots
| Jg 1:9-25
| -
| 5,000
|
| 42
| The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim
| Jg 3:7-10
| 1
| 1,000
|
| 43
| Ehud delivers a message from God
| Jg 3:15-22
| 1
| 1
|
| 44
| God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites
| Jg 3:28-29
| 10,000
| 10,000
|
| 45
| Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad
| Jg 3.31
| 600
| 600
|
| 46
| Barak and God massacre the Canaanites
| Jg 4:15-16
| -
| 1,000
|
| 47
| Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull
| Jg 4:18-22
| 1
| 1
|
| 48
| Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow
| Jg 7:22
| 120,000
| 120,000
|
| 49
| A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit
| Jg 9:23-57
| 1,001
| 2,000
|
| 50
| The Ammonite Massacre
| Jg 11:32-33
| -
| 20,000
|
| 51
| Jephthah's Daughter
| Jg 11:39
| 1
| 1
|
| 52
| 42,000 killed for failing the "shibboleth" test
| Jg 12.4-7, Heb 11.32
| 42,000
| 42,000
|
| 53
| Samson murders 30 men for their clothes
| Jg 14:19
| 30
| 30
|
| 54
| Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass
| Jg 15:14-15
| 1,000
| 1,000
|
| 55
| Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack
| Jg 16:27-30
| 3,000
| 3,000
|
| 56
| A holy civil war (called by rotting concubine body part messages)
| Jg 20:35-37
| 65,100
| 65,100
|
| 57
| The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen virgins
| Jg 21.10-14
| -
| 4,000
|
| 58
| God kills Eli's sons along with 34,000 Israelite soldiers
| 1Sam 2:25, 1Sam 4:11
| 34,002
| 34,002
|
| 59
| God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts
| 1Sam 5:1-12
| -
| 3,000
|
| 60
| God killed 50,070 for looking into the ark of the Lord
| 1Sam 6:19
| 50,070
| 50,070
|
| 61
| The Lord thundered great thunder upon the Philistines
| 1Sam 7:10-11
| -
| 1,000
|
| 62
| Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired body-part message)
| 1Sam 11:6-13
| -
| 1,000
|
| 63
| Jonathan's very fist slaughter (not counting the one before)
| 1Sam 14:12-14
| 20
| 20
|
| 64
| God forces the Philistines to kill each other
| 1Sam 14:20
| -
| 1,000
|
| 65
| The Amalekite genocide
| 1Sam 15:2-3
| -
| 10,000
|
| 66
| Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord
| 1Sam 15:32-33
| 1
| 1
|
| 67
| David or Elhanan killed Goliath
| 1Sam 17.51, 2Sam 21.19
| 1
| 1
|
| 68
| David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to buy his first wife)
| 1Sam 18.27
| 200
| 200
|
| 69
| The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines
| 1Sam 23:2-5
| -
| 10,000
|
| 70
| God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff)
| 1Sam 25:38
| 1
| 1
|
| 71
| David committed genocides for the Philistines
| 1Sam 27.8-11
| -
| 60,000
|
| 72
| David spends the day killing Amalekites
| 1Sam 30:17
| -
| 1,000
|
| 73
| God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites
| 1Sam 31:2, 1Chr 10:6
| 4
| 100
|
| 74
| David killed the messenger
| 2Sam 1.15
| 1
| 1
|
| 75
| David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and feet, and hung up their dead bodies
| 2Sam 4.12
| 2
| 2
|
| 76
| God helps David smite Philistines from the front and the rear
| 2Sam 5:19-25
| -
| 2,000
|
| 77
| God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling
| 2Sam 6:6-7, 1Chr 13:9-10
| 1
| 1
|
| 78
| David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest
| 2Sam 8.2
| -
| 667
|
| 79
| The Lord gave David victory wherever he went
| 2Sam 8.5, 10.18
| 65,850
| 66,850
|
| 80
| David killed every male in Edom
| 2Sam 8.13, 1Kg 11.15-16,
1Chr 18.12, Psalm 60:1
| 15,000
| 65,000
|
| 81
| Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon
| 2Sam 11.1, 1Chr 20.1
| -
| 1,000
|
| 82
| God slowly kills a baby
| 2Sam 12:14-18
| 1
| 1
|
| 83
| Famine and human sacrfice: Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord
| 2Sam 21:1-9
| 7
| 3,000
|
| 84
| David's mighty men and their amazing killings
| 2Sam 23, 1Chr 11
| 1,403
| 3,400
|
| 85
| A couple hundred thousand die because David had a census
| 2Sam 24:15, 1Chr 21:14
| 70,000
| 200,000
|
| 86
| Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by having Joab and Shimei murdered
| 1Kg 2:29-34, 2:44-46
| 2
| 2
|
| 87
| A tale of two prophets
| 1Kg 13:11-24
| 1
| 1
|
| 88
| Jeroboam's son: God kills another child
| 1Kg 14:17
| 1
| 1
|
| 89
| Jeroboam's family
| 1Kg 15:29
| -
| 10
|
| 90
| Baasha's family and friends
| 1Kg 16:11-12
| -
| 20
|
| 91
| Zimri burns to death
| 1Kg 16.18-19
| 1
| 1
|
| 92
| The drought of Elijah
| 1Kg 17.1, Lk 4.25, James 5.17-18
| -
| 3,000
|
| 93
| Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest
| 1Kg 18.22-40
| 450
| 450
|
| 94
| The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians
| 1Kg 20:20-21
| -
| 10,000
|
| 95
| God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills
| 1Kg 20:28-29
| 100,000
| 100,000
|
| 96
| God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them
| 1Kg 20:30
| 27,000
| 27,000
|
| 97
| God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet
| 1Kg 20:35-36
| 1
| 1
|
| 98
| God kills Ahab for not killing a captured king
| 1Kg 20:42, 22:35
| 1
| 1
|
| 99
| God burned to death 102 men for asking Elijah to come down from his hill
| 2Kg 1:10-12
| 102
| 102
|
| 100
| God killed King Ahaziah for asking the wrong God
| 2Kg 1:16-17; 2Chr 22:7-9
| 1
| 1
|
| 101
| God sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of a prophet's bald head
| 2Kg 2:23-24
| 42
| 42
|
| 102
| The Lord delivered the Moabites
| 2Kg 3:18-25
| -
| 5,000
|
| 103
| A skeptic is trampled to death
| 2Kg 7.2-20
| 1
| 1
|
| 104
| Another seven year famine
| 2Kg 8:1
| -
| 7,000
|
| 105
| Jehoram of Israel
| 2Kg 9:24
| 1
| 1
|
| 106
| Jezebel
| 2Kg 9:33-37
| 1
| 1
|
| 107
| Ahab's sons: Seventy heads in two heaps
| 2Kg 10:6-10
| 70
| 70
|
| 108
| Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests
| 2Kg 10:11
| -
| 20
|
| 109
| Jehu killed Ahaziah's family
| 2Kg 10.12-13, 2Chr 22.7-9
| 42
| 42
|
| 110
| Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family
| 2Kg 10:17
| -
| 20
|
| 111
| Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then slaughters them all
| 2Kg 10.18-25
| -
| 1,000
|
| 112
| Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah
| 2Kg 11.17-20
| 2
| 2
|
| 113
| God sends lions to eat those that don't fear him enough
| 2Kg 17:25-26
| -
| 10
|
| 114
| An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers
| 2Kg 19:34, Is 37:36
| 185,000
| 185,000
|
| 115
| God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons
| 2Kg 19:37
| 1
| 1
|
| 116
| Josiah killed all the priests of the high places
| 2Kg 23.20
| -
| 100
|
| 117
| Another holy war
| 1Chr 5:18-22
| -
| 50,000
|
| 118
| God killed a half million Israelite soldiers
| 2Chr 13:17-18
| 500,000
| 500,000
|
| 119
| Jeroboam
| 2Chr 13:20
| 1
| 1
|
| 120
| God killed a million Ethiopians
| 2Chr 14:9-14
| 1,000,000
| 1,000,000
|
| 121
| Friendly Fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other
| 2Chr 20:22-25
| -
| 30,000
|
| 122
| God made Jehoram's bowels fall out
| 2Chr 21:14-19
| 1
| 1
|
| 123
| God killed Jehoram's sons
| 2Chr 22:1
| -
| 3
|
| 124
| Ahaziah (of Judah)
| 2Chr 22.7-9
| 1
| 1
|
| 125
| Joash, the princes, and army of Judah
| 2Chr 24:20-25
| 1
| 10,000
|
| 126
| God destroyed Amaziah
| 2Chr 25:15-27
| 1
| 1000
|
| 127
| God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria
| 2Chr 28:1-5
| -
| 10,000
|
| 128
| God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him
| 2Chr 28:6
| 120,000
| 120,000
|
| 129
| The fall of Jerusalem
| 2Chr 36:16-17
| -
| 10,000
|
| 130
| God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves
| Job 1:18-19
| 10
| 60
|
| 131
| Hananiah
| Jeremiah 28:15-16
| 1
| 1
|
| 132
| Ezekiel's wife
| Ezek 24:15-18
| 1
| 1
|
| 133
| Annanias and Sapphira
| Acts 5:1-10
| 2
| 2
|
| 134
| Herod
| Acts 12:23
| 1
| 1
|
| 135
| Jesus
| Rom 8:32, 1Pet 1.18-20
| 1
| 1
|
| Total
| 2,476,636
| 24,634,205
|
23 comments:
This is quite impressive and I cannot thank you enough for going through in continuing to modify this table.
May I make a suggestion though? When I often debate people on God's morality and use examples of unjustified murder in the bible, the ones that have the best chance at getting through to them are obviously those which are the MOST clearly unjustified - which include the killing of children and innocent people/civilians.
Such examples are bears mauling 42 children, Jephthah sacrificing his daughter, God killing King David's child to punish David, God inflicting thousands if not millions of civilians with tumors, Moses' army killing women and children, etc.
Would you be willing to make a smaller chart or color code particular killings on this one which show God's most clearly unjust killings - which apologists should have the hardest time finding excuses for? It would be a big time saver for people like me looking for the best examples to depict his barbaric character.
Thanks!
Great stuff Steve - you've created a wonderful resource for logic.
Now your task is documenting the animal death and suffering caused by this monster. Or are you gonna do the Koran next ?
Come on - work to do - no rest for the wicked....!
Steve, I don't recall, but have I ever told you that among many evangelicals, the belief is that the population of the world at the time of Noah was in the billions? This is usually figured due to the idea that the extremely long ages of the antedeluvian forefathers should indicate extreme health, including excellent fertility. Imagine a world where people have lifespans averaging somewhere around 700 years, and they're mutliplying like rabbits. In short, your estimate for the flood may be way too small for literalists.
skanksta, as I'm certain I've said before, the work of estimating animal deaths is essentially insurmountable. You've got to consider the enormity and complexity of the Israelite sacrificial system, and realize there's just no way to figure it out. It's easily in the billions if not trillions. (Not to mention trying to estimate animals killed in the flood; see above.)
psybermonkey, thanks for the suggestion. I'm working on it. I hope to have a post with God's killings ranked with a five star scale of nastiness later today.
skanksta, I'd like to make a list of God's animal killings and I may do that someday. But it's going to be kind of boring. All the sheep, and goat, and bull slaughters! Still, it would be an impressive list.
Of course, I'd also like to get to the Quran and Book of Mormon. I feel kind of guilty about neglecting them.
Brucker, I'd never heard that before. The human population at the time of the flood was in the billions? Do you have a link where that idea is expressed? I'd like to add a note about it on the flood post.
This guy gives some discussion, but on a quick scan, I can't figure out his conclusion:
http://ldolphin.org/popul.html
That is too funny! So God drowned 9 billion people in the flood? (And the author says he's being conservative.)
I guess I should revise my numbers.
There's no way in hell that nine million people were alive at the time these half-crazed theologians spectulate... mostly because at no point in history, until now, has the population of Earth ever exceeded a billion.
Wanna know what actually caused so many people on Earth, today? Centuries of inbreeding. That's right, the Hapsburgs had it right; however, it was not through brother-sister relationships, but more of distant-cousin-in-the-same-village/tribe/township relationships, that humanity "divided and prospered".
Archeological facts don't fit with the sacred texts of these hare-brained schemers, however, so they have to rejigger the facts to their satisfaction... oftentimes, with the blatantly amusing results documented above.
Voted at Flood post. Seems to work.
> And the author says he's being conservative
or "Conservative"
Incredible. Thanks so much for supplying such a massive amount of ammo. Although I'm long past trying to "win" an argument with a true believer, I can't help imgining that this list would shake the foundational beliefs of the best (worst) of them.
Them: "God loves us!"
Us: "What about (hyperlink to site)?"
Them: "They weren't US!"
Not only did you leave a good moral deal breaker for Christianity, but you dealt another blow by pointing out the iron Chariots. So much for omnipotence. If Satan just learns to drive a tank, then it looks like the Cristian myth will be a ton brighter.
Not only did you leave a good moral deal breaker for Christianity, but you dealt another blow by pointing out the iron Chariots. So much for omnipotence. If Satan just learns to drive a tank, then it looks like the Cristian myth will be a ton brighter.
Steve, The Book of Mormon (though fraudulent, probably like 99 percent of the bible)is full of battles and killing - my partner is a Jack-Mormon. The Koran too is just riddled with devouring flesh eating the swords.
I just found your site today--FABULOUS! As an Atheist working in an ofc of "believers," I am sick and tired of having their hogwash shoved in my face. I've known for a very long time that the Bible is 99% hateful, racist BS. Now, thanks to your AMAZING efforts, I can pinpoint specific examples of it. THANK YOU!!! Please keep up the GREAT work!
I just found your site today--FABULOUS! As an Atheist working in an ofc of "believers," I am sick and tired of having their hogwash shoved in my face. I've known for a very long time that the Bible is 99% hateful, racist BS. Now, thanks to your AMAZING efforts, I can pinpoint specific examples of it. THANK YOU!!! Please keep up the GREAT work!
Stunning animals before slaughter is permitted in Islam, not in kosher slaughter.
Mohammed condemned cruelty to animals.
Animals are not supposed to see other animals of the same species slaughtered.
These rules are not always obeyed.
Yahweh is a God of war as it is clearly stated in Exodus 15:3.
But his concept in the bible shows clear patter of evolution:
http://www.godweb.org/fosdickguide.htm
Just a quick post from an Evangelical.
Interesting stats. I'm going to use them during a teaching time at our church tomorrow. I'll be interested to see how believers synthesize these truths.
I'm not quite sure why you take the time to work through statistics concerning a God you don't believe, and from a source you do not give credence to, the Bible.
For those who might believe it, Genesis 6 shares these words from God in light of his creation of man: "The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that EVERY inclination of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY evil ALL the time (emphasis mine). The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, 'I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.'" ... Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said 'I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.'"
I share this in light of common secular research that claims that over 100 billion people have lived on earth. That would mean God has specifically killed .0024% of the population (though I would say that 100% of our race dies under the sovereign hand of God). To me, this stokes my understanding of God as graceful, given his anger, disappointment and pain with the human race.
I hope that you also give some thought to the main theme of the Biblical story - about a God who creates a rebellious world, and goes to great lengths to save it, not leave it to its own self-destruction. We are all on death row, unless someone intervenes. I believe God has done so.
All the best,
Bill, Mesa AZ
"a God who creates a rebellious world, and goes to great lengths to save it, not leave it to its own self-destruction"
Assuming you ever come back to check for replies...
See, this is the bit that some of us have trouble with, when you folks start trying to use this as a guide to morality. He created the rebellious world, knowing it would be rebellious, tried to save it from destruction (by who? they had stone-age nukes?), then destroyed it himself, killing, one would assume, a large number of sinless children and unborn babies.
If you can't see the irony in this, and the idiocy of using it as a model to teach moral behaviour, you are truly lost.
bill, your last paragraph sums it all up very well for me; which is to say that none of what you said made any sense whatsoever to me. also, asking the question why a non believer would go to the lengths to put up this information doesn't compute. it makes perfect sense to me. it is to show the absolute hypocrisy in "religious" texts. theologians study these texts but that doesn't mean they take them as facts.
lots of religious people, or devout people do wonderful things in small communities. i really think that is wonderful. however, i don't have to put up any proof here to back up what i am about to say: more violent acts are done in the name of religion than in the name of any other thing. and that goes for ALL religions, especially christianity.
put that in your pipe and smoke it....
@ Bill Hartley
Regardless of anything these other commentators say, they still are not disproving the existence of God.
I found this chart mildly amusing. and rather enjoyed it. Really puts in a new kick in regards to fearing our Lord.
One problem I noticed, is that this chart does not take into consideration the fact that God ends all of our lives. Taking us Home or letting us wander for eternity is His choice alone.
Cheers.
@Maeryn
The existence of God does not need to be disproved. I would suggest you read up on a concept called 'burden of proof'.
Even then, evolution and the big bang provide a way to scientifically and empirically explain the creation and development of the universe.
Humanity no longer needs to invoke God as the supreme creator as we did in the days before science.
All this chart shows is that were God to exist (an assumption for which there is no proof, no need and little basis), he is a cruel, temperamental and vindictive character who is hardly worthy of our worship.
Peace
wow this is great!
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