9 Bible Verses about Killing Whole Families

Save me from the hand of Esau, my brother. I fear that he will attack me and kill both mothers and children.

King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder. She gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed.

When he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam. He killed every person of the family of Jeroboam according to the word of Jehovah as stated by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

Immediately after he became king and took his place on the throne of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha. Not one male child survived.

So Zimri destroyed the entire family of Baasha as Jehovah promised through the prophet Jehu.

The entire house of Ahab will perish. I will get rid of every male in his family, young and old alike.

Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.

When Jehu arrived at Samaria, he put to death all those of Ahab's family who were still in Samaria. There were no more of them, as Jehovah had said to Elijah.

He ordered: Take them alive. So they took them alive and then killed them at the cistern of the shearing house. He killed all forty-two of them.