35 Bible Verses about Death As Punishment

Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don’t go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.

No hand may touch him; instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows. No animal or man will live. When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”

You must remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and keep the Lord’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I was commanded.”

David was infuriated with the man and said to Nathan: “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

Saul declared to him, “May God punish me and do so severely if you do not die, Jonathan!”

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”

those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.

Then fire came from the Lord and burned them to death before the Lord.

The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the Lord and died.

But Nadab and Abihu died in the Lord’s presence when they presented unauthorized fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the direction of Aaron their father.

but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the Lord.

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

If these men die naturally as all people would, and suffer the fate of all, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.” Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open. read more.
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions. They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against Me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

For the Lord had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more—because you have complained about Me.

But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was 38 years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Indeed, the Lord’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.

For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness 40 years until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died.

So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he tore down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

Any man from your family I do not cut off from My altar will bring grief and sadness to you. All your descendants will die violently.

He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

You have planned shame for your house
by wiping out many peoples
and sinning against your own self.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

Then Festus said: “King Agrippa and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community has appealed to me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he should not live any longer.