18 Bible Verses about God Might Kill His People

The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert 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, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way."

For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.'"

I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!"

"Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant."

"Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!" But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are."

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

Why should the Egyptians say, 'For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say, "The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert."

If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

For I was terrified at the Lord's intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.

And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the desert so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword."

But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.