18 Bible Verses about God Might Kill His People

and the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."

For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.'"

I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

"Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."And they fell on their faces.

Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

"So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

lest the land from which you brought us say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness."

Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,

Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.

Therefore he said he would destroy them-- had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."