18 Bible Verses about God Might Kill His People

And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.

I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.