105 Bible Verses about God Killing

See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand.

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave and brings up.

The king of Israel read the letter and tore his clothes and said: How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God, with the power of life and death? It is plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me!

Jehovah will judge with fire, and he will judge all people with his sword. Jehovah will strike many people dead.

and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.

You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.

It is all one thing. Therefore I say: God destroys the blameless and the wicked.

I am going to kill the righteous people and the wicked people among you. That is why my sword will come out of its sheath to be used against everyone from the south to the north.

Abraham came near and said: Will you destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Do not fear those who kill the body. They are not able to take away your [everlasting] life. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both life and body in the ever-burning fires. (Greek: Gehenna: continuously burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.)

I will show you the one to fear. Fear the one who, after he has killed, has power to destroy you (throw into the ever-burning trash fires of the valley of Hinnom) (Greek: Gehenna). This is one you should fear.

The sound is echoing to the ends of the earth because Jehovah has brought charges against the nations. He will judge all humans. He will kill the wicked,' declares Jehovah.

Certainly, God will crush the heads of his enemies and destroy even the hair on the heads of those who continue to be guilty.

Bring my enemies that do not want me to rule over them and kill them in front of me.

If you would destroy the wicked, O God, depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

But with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth (power of his words), and with the spirit (breath) of his lips he will destroy the wicked.

He who obeys the commandment saves his life. But he who is careless of his ways will die.

On that day those killed by Jehovah will stretch from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, taken away, or buried. They will become like manure on the ground.'

The king was angry, and sent his armies to put the evil servants to death and to destroy their town with fire.

I will destroy those who do any work on that day.

Why should you and your people die in wars, famines, and plagues? Jehovah has threatened the nations that do not serve the king of Babylon.

You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

Though he put me to death, yet I will hope in him. I will defend my ways before him.

Er was an evil man. It displeased Jehovah. So Jehovah killed him.

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah. These three were born to him by a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua. Er, Judah's firstborn was wicked in Jehovah's sight; so Jehovah put him to death.

What he did displeased Jehovah. So Jehovah killed him also.

Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that Jehovah met him and sought to put him to death.

But your donkey saw me and turned aside three times. If it had not, I would have killed you and spared the donkey.

God will destroy you forever. He will remove you from your dwelling place from out of the land of the living.

Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness is everlasting, And Og, king of Bashan, for his loving kindness is everlasting,

If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against Jehovah, who will intercede for him? But his sons did not listen to the voice of their father. Jehovah desired to put them to death.

Ten days later Jehovah made him sicker and Nabal died.

By the living God Jehovah, David declared, I know that Jehovah will kill Saul, either when his time comes to die a natural death or when he dies in battle.

He did not request information from Jehovah. Thus Jehovah killed him and turned the kingship over to David, Jesse's son.

At once Jehovah God became angry with Uzzah. He killed him because of his irreverence. Uzzah died there beside the Ark of the Covenant.

Jehovah's anger burned against Uzzah. He struck him down because he had put his hand on the Ark. So he died there before God.

Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.

Crying to Jehovah he said: O Jehovah my God, have you sent evil even on the widow I now visit, by causing her son's death?

My power is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.

I will destroy the inhabitant of Ashdod. I will kill the king of Ashkelon (who holds the scepter). I will direct my power against Ekron. The remnant of the Philistines will perish, said the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.

I will destroy the lock (bar) at the gate of Damascus, and annihilate the inhabitant from the valley of Aven. He who holds the scepter (imperial authority) from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, said Jehovah.

Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.

They all said: He will put those cruel men to death. Then he will find other workmen who are worthy and who will give him fruit when it is ready.

Then the evil (lawless) one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will put him to death with the breath of his mouth, and destroy him by the manifestation (brightness) (advent) (revelation) of his coming. (Greek: parousia: presence, return, being near)

His wife answered: If Jehovah wanted to kill us he would not accept our offerings. He would not have shown us all this or told us these things.

Fire came from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

You saw how he killed everyone who worshiped the god Baal at Peor.

Jehovah gave Israel victory over the army of Benjamin. The Israelites killed twenty five thousand one hundred of the enemy that day,

Some of the men of Bethshemesh looked inside the Ark. Jehovah killed seventy of them. This made the people of Bethshemesh very sad.

The anger of God rose against them and killed some of their stoutest ones, and subdued the choice men of Israel.

He bends his bow for the attack. He takes his place with his hand ready. In his hate he puts to death all those pleasing to the eye in the tent of the daughter of Zion. He poured out his rage just like fire.

You blocked our approach to you with anger. You have slain us without compassion.

Has Jehovah struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?

When he killed some of them, the rest searched for him. They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God.

Therefore I cut you in pieces by my prophets. I have killed you with the words of my mouth. My judgments flashed like lightning upon you.

I sent a plague among you just as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses. I made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils and yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

Jehovah was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.

He said to them: Dishonor the Temple! Fill its courtyards with dead people, and then leave. So they went out and killed the people in the city.

Both young and old lie dead in the streets. Enemy swords kill young men and women. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.

So Jehovah said: I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth. All of them: men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air. I am sorry that I created them.

God said to Noah: I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth.

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish.

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.

Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. Men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

I will destroy her ruler and government officials along with him, said Jehovah.

My messenger will go ahead of you. I will lead you to the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites. I will wipe them out.

When Jehovah your God destroys all the nations that are living in the land that he gives you. you will force them out and live in their cities and houses.

Israel, Jehovah will get rid of the nations you attack. You may have their land.

Jehovah is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his anger. He will pass judgment on the nations and fill them with dead bodies. Throughout the earth he will execute their rulers.

It was Jehovah who hardened their hearts to make war against Israel. That way he could completely destroy them. That they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Abimelech had not come near her. He said: Lord, I am innocent! Would you destroy my people and me?

Jehovah protects all who love him, but he will destroy the wicked.

He could already have sent a terrible disease and wiped you from the face of the earth.

You will go after them in anger and annihilate them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword will devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the longhaired leaders of the enemy.

Jehovah said: That night I will go through the land of Egypt. I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt! I am Jehovah!

Then Assyrians will be killed with a sword not made by human hands. The swords not made by human hands will destroy them. They will flee from battle, and their young men will be made to do forced labor.

The time has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon any Philistine who might have escaped to get help. Jehovah will destroy the Philistines and anyone who is left from the island of Crete.

I will kill her children with deadly plague. Then all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done.

therefore the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will stretch out my hand (exert power) against the Philistines. I will even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

I will fill its mountains with those who have been killed. Those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and ravines.

With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment on him. I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you and you will not be inhabited.

Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!

I will bring distress on humans and they will walk like they are blind! They have sinned against Jehovah! Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure.

You Ethiopians (Cushites) will be slain by my sword!

To him who destroyed great kings. His loving kindness is everlasting.

And struck mighty kings, for his loving kindness is everlasting:

He struck great nations and killed mighty kings,

So I said to you: 'Let My son go that he may serve me. But you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'

At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.

Pharaoh was too stubborn to let us go. Because of this every firstborn male in Egypt-human and animal was killed. This is why we sacrifice every firstborn male to Jehovah and buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah.

He killed all the firstborn sons, the first ones born in the land when their fathers were young.

To him who destroyed the Egyptians in their firstborn. His loving kindness is everlasting.

You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'

You parted the sea before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

Jehovah threw them into confusion before Israel. They were killed in a great battle at Gibeon. They were chased along the road that goes up to Beth-horon. They were slaughtered all the way to Azekah, and Makkedah. As they fled from Israel, and were going down to Beth-horon, Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them all the way to Azekah and they died. In fact hailstones killed more than the children of Israel killed using their swords.

As they fled from Israel, and were going down to Beth-horon, Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them all the way to Azekah and they died. In fact hailstones killed more than the children of Israel killed using their swords.

It happened that night. Jehovah's angel killed one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers in the Assyrian camp. The next morning the Judeans saw all the corpses.

The angel of Jehovah put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!