35 Bible Verses about Death As Punishment
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Warn the people that they are forbidden to touch any part of the mountain. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death,
with stones or arrows, and no one must touch the body of a person killed in this way. Even an animal that touches this mountain must be put to death. You may go up the mountain only after a signal is given on the trumpet.
You will stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the watch as Jehovah directs you. Then you will not die. This is what I was commanded.
David became very angry with the rich man. He said: I swear by the living God Jehovah that the man who did this should die!
God appeared to the king in a dream and said: You are going to die, because you have taken this woman. She is already married.
Give the man's wife back to him now. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not give her back, you and all who belong to you are doomed to die.
They died because they had returned and made the whole community complain about Moses. They spread lies about the land.
A fire flashed from Jehovah and burned them. They died in the presence of Jehovah.
Nadab and Abihu died in Jehovah's presence because they offered unauthorized fire in his presence in the Desert of Sinai. They had no children. So only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
Nadab and Abihu died because they offered unauthorized fire in Jehovah's presence.
Nadab and Abihu died before their father died, and neither had any children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
If these men die a natural death like all other people Jehovah has not sent me. But if Jehovah does something totally new, if the ground opens up, swallows them and everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive to their graves; then you will know that these men have treated Jehovah with contempt. When he finished speaking, the ground under them split,read more.
and the earth opened up to swallow them, their families, the followers of Korah, and all their property. They went down alive to their graves with everything that belonged to them. The ground covered them. They disappeared from the assembly.
Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
I, Jehovah, have spoken. I swear I will do these things to all the people in this whole wicked congregation. For they have joined forces against me. They will meet their end in this desert. Here they will die!'
Jehovah said: They must all die in the desert wilderness. The only ones left were Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Your bodies will drop dead in this desert. All of you who are at least twenty years old, who were registered and listed, and who complained about me will die.
Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert.
This was thirty-eight years after we left Kadesh-Barnea. By that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as Jehovah said they would.
Jehovah kept getting rid of them until finally none of them were left.
This is why Joshua circumcised: All the men who came out of Egypt including all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. Jehovah swore that he would not show them the land, which he swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
Fourteen thousand seven hundred died from the plague in addition to those who died because of Korah.
So Jehovah sent a plague among the Israelites from that morning until the time he had chosen. Of the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand died.
Therefore Jehovah sent an epidemic on the people of Israel, and seventy thousand of them died.
They said to Joash: Bring your son here. We will kill him! He tore down the altar to Baal and cut down the symbol of Asherah!
Yet I will keep one of your descendants alive. He will serve me as priest. But he will become blind and lose all hope. All your other descendants will die in the prime of life.
He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.
Fear of a king is like the roar of a lion. Provoke him to anger and sin against yourself.
You have purposed a shameful thing for your house. You have sinned against yourself by destroying many people.
The Jews answered him: We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Festus said, King Agrippa and all men who are present with us, you see this man, about whom all the crowds of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he should not live any longer.
