18 Bible Verses about God Might Kill His People

and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

"Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." They fell on their faces.

let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."

So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'

Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

The LORD was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."