20 Bible Verses about God Killing Individuals

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Genesis 38:7

Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord put him to death.

Genesis 38:10

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so He put him to death also.

Exodus 4:24

On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death.

Numbers 22:33

The donkey saw Me and turned away from Me these three times. If she had not turned away from Me, I would have killed you by now and let her live.”

Psalm 52:5

This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

Psalm 135:11

Sihon king of the Amorites,
Og king of Bashan,
and all the kings of Canaan.

Psalm 136:19-20

Sihon king of the Amorites
        His love is eternal.
and Og king of Bashan—
        His love is eternal.

1 Samuel 2:25

If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him, but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the Lord intended to kill them.

1 Samuel 25:38

About 10 days later, the Lord struck Nabal dead.

1 Samuel 26:10

David added, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down: either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

2 Samuel 6:7

Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there next to the ark of God.

1 Kings 17:20

Then he cried out to the Lord and said, “My Lord God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

Amos 1:8

I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod,
and the one who wields the scepter from Ashkelon.
I will also turn My hand against Ekron,
and the remainder of the Philistines will perish.
The Lord God has spoken.

Amos 1:5

I will break down the gates of Damascus.
I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven,
and the one who wields the scepter from Beth-eden.
The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir.
The Lord has spoken.

Matthew 21:41

“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told Him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at the harvest.”

Judges 13:23

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had intended to kill us, He wouldn’t have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us, and He would not have shown us all these things or spoken to us now like this.”

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