18 Bible Verses about God Might Kill His People
Most Relevant Verses
The Israelites said to them: If only Jehovah had allowed us to die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!
Go to that land flowing with milk and honey. I will not be with you, because you are impossible to deal with. I would probably destroy you on the way.
Jehovah said to Moses: Tell the Israelites: You are impossible to deal with. If I were with you, I might destroy you at any time. Take off your jewelry and I will decide what to do with you.
I will send an epidemic and destroy them. I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!
Get away from these people, and let me destroy them in an instant! Immediately, they bowed with their faces touching the ground.
Leave me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you.
Do not let the Egyptians say: 'He was planning all along to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth. That is why he brought them out of our land.' Do not be so angry. Reconsider your decision to bring this disaster on your people.
The land from which you brought us may say: Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land he promised them and because he hated them he has brought them out to slay them in the desert wilderness.
But if you kill all these people at the same time the nations who have heard these reports about you will say,
Even at Mount Horeb you made Jehovah so angry that he wanted to destroy you.
I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure from Jehovah. For he was wrathful against you to the point of destroying you! But Jehovah listened to me that time also.
God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.
Jehovah was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him! So I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
I will strip her naked and make her as in the day that she was born. I will make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Then they said: The God of the Hebrews met with us. Please, let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness. Then we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. Otherwise he will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.
