15 Bible Verses about God Killed His People

Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.

Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.