Biblical Deaths: How Many Did God Kill? How Many Did Satan Kill?

How many people did God kill in the bible?

The loving and merciful god of the bible left a fair amount of documentation about how many people he personally killed. Some of it must be intuited as the accounts don't give specific figures. Someone provided a figure using rough estimates and a fair breakdown on this web page and arrived at a figure of 33,041,220 people. This is a high estimate and others estimate a much lower figure of 2.8 million.

How many people did Satan kill in the bible?

It appears that Satan only killed 10 people: the seven sons and three daughters of Job. And he only does this because god allowed it as part of a bet!. Technically the blood is on god's hands for these as well.

Who, how, why did god kill people in the bible?

Lot's wife for looking back- Gen.19:26
Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord"- Gen.38:7, 1 Chr.2:3,
Onan for spilling his seed- Gen.38:10,
Pharaoh and 600 chariot captains (plus his entire army) - Ex.14:8
For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf- Ex.32:27-28, 35,
Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord- Lev.10:1-3, Num.3:4, 26:61
A blasphemer- Lev.24:10-23
A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath- Num.15:32-36,
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families)- Num.16:27,
Burned to death for offering incense- Num.16:35, 26:10,
For complaining- Num.16:49,
For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" - Num.25:9,
Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive)- Num.31:1-35,
God tells Joshua to stoned to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing.- Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26,
God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone).- Joshua 8:1-25,
Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees- Joshua 10:24-26
God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites- Judges 1:4
Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly- Jg.3:15-22,
God delivered Moabites- Jg.3:28-29,
God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other.- Jg.7:2-22, 8:10,
The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson- Jg.14:19,
The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson- Jg.15:14-15,
Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism- Jg.16:27-30,
"The Lord smote Benjamin"- Jg.20:35-37,
More Benjamites- Jg.20:44-46
For looking into the ark of the Lord- 1 Sam.6:19
God delivered Philistines- 1 Sam.14:12
Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death- 1 Sam.15:32-33
"The Lord smote Nabal."- 1 Sam.25:38
Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling- 2 Sam.6:6-7, 1 Chr.13:9-10
David and Bathsheba's baby boy- 2 Sam.12:14-18
Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord- 2 Sam.21:6-9
From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and children)- 2 Sam.24:15, 1 Chr.21:14
A prophet for believing another prophet's lie- 1 Kg.13:1-24
Religious leaders killed in prayer contest- 1 Kg.18:22-40
God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands- 1 Kg.20:28-29
God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers- 1 Kg.20:30
God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet- 1 Kg.20:35-36
Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god.- 2 Kg.1:2-4, 17, 2 Chr.22:7-9
Burned to death by God- 2 Kg.1:9-12
God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head- 2 Kg.2:23-24
Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah- 2 Kg.7:17-20
Jezebel- 2 Kg.9:33-37
God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners - 2 Kg.17:25-26
Sleeping Assyrian soldiers- 2 Kg.19:35, Is.37:36
Saul- 1 Chr.10:14
God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah- 2 Chr.13:15-17
Jeroboam- 2 Chr.13:20
"The Lord smote the Ethiopians."- 2 Chr.14:9-14
God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out- 2 Chr.21:14-19
Judean soldiers- 2 Chr.28:6
Ezekiel's wife- Ezek.24:15-18
Ananias and Sapphira- Acts 5:1-10
Herod- Acts 12:23

Just for fun here too is a video in which the first part deals with the topic of biblical killings. It seems that YHWH was a veritable killing machine

reply to post by traditionaldrummer


Yer, this subject has been done to death on here. The end story being; God makes the Devil look like a veritable saint in comparison. Saint Satan, perhaps?

Satan runs Earth as the fallen and it is clear he runs the PTB.

Satan gets the ear of those that want power and they kill for Satan.

Not sure why people are so ignorant to this fact or quick to ignore that Satan is the puppetmaster.

well duh- of course satan would want to keep people alive sinning. your idea of death needs to be examined, not your definitions of invisible beings. havent you ever heard it called "liberation"?

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Yep. And yet Christians will continue to defend the Bible despite the fact it makes their God look like a horrible genocidal tyrant.

What amazes me is that back when I was a kid, being raised as a Christian, I never questioned the absurd and evil things that the God of the Bible does. The way they spin the stories has a lot to do with it.

I think it is easier to excuse this Yahweh character for murdering adults than it is children. While certainly murdering anyone is in direct violation of his own commandments it is when he decides that children and infants must be killed that his true nature becomes apparent. I mean he's omnipotent and omniscient right? And yet the best he can come with is to kill the first born of Egypt, kill the Amalekite infants...

Good post drummer

Originally posted by IandEye
well duh- of course satan would want to keep people alive sinning. your idea of death needs to be examined,

Huh? What is my idea of death and why does it need to be examined?

not your definitions of invisible beings.

I don't recall defining invisible beings.

havent you ever heard it called "liberation"?

Should I change it to "how many people did god liberate?

Originally posted by zroth

Satan runs Earth as the fallen and it is clear he runs the PTB.

Satan gets the ear of those that want power and they kill for Satan.

Not sure why people are so ignorant to this fact or quick to ignore that Satan is the puppetmaster.

I'm sticking to the documented deaths listed in the bible. If you'd like you can tally up a satanic death toll in a sort of post-biblical death sequel.

He created, he can destroy- end of story.

Originally posted by LiveForever8
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Yer, this subject has been done to death on here. The end story being; God makes the Devil look like a veritable saint in comparison. Saint Satan, perhaps?

Sorry, I had no idea I was duplicating over done topics: my apologies. And yes, it does draw a comparison between the two. However, even leaving satan out of the equation it appears the loving, merciful god is anything but; apparently a pissed off, serial killing maniac.

Originally posted by prophecywatcher
He created, he can destroy- end of story.

Soo...

a kind of "I brought you into this world and I'll take you out" kind of thing?

Originally posted by Titen-Sxull

I think it is easier to excuse this Yahweh character for murdering adults than it is children.

True, he is sadistic when it involves children and such deaths are quite disturbing.

The real puzzler for me is why this god is regarded as the source of morality when he displays a penchant for capricious murder.

You are mistaken. God is responsible for every death that ever occurred in the history of the universe. Taking into account only humans, that would make it somewhere in the range of 100 billion currently.

However, God was also responsible for the lives of those 100 billion, not to mention the ~6 billion currently alive

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the essenes and othe jewish gnostics believed that satan is god and god is beyond all our senses. to personify god with mercy and kindness is ego-projection and narcissim. but making fun of that is even worse.


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who are you to 'excuse' god? the universe is a very violent and deadly place. the modern views of civilization are incongruent with natural reality. not that it stops them from trying to control it.

it is very dangerous to think the world should be like you see it in your head- you should be aware of the way it really is and adapt to it.


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"how many people did satan liberate?" 10. "and god?" 100 billion. yep- seems about right.
masturbatory and self-indulgent speculation about invisible entities. fun.


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"And the Lord said, 'Thou shalt not kill, unless you're me - in which case I can damn well do what I #ing please. In fact, I'm going to kill you.' "

Originally posted by babloyi
You are mistaken. God is responsible for every death that ever occurred in the history of the universe.

Umm..

How so?

this just proves the stupidity of the followers of these organized religion

Originally posted by traditionaldrummer

How many people did God kill in the bible?

The loving and merciful god of the bible left a fair amount of documentation about how many people he personally killed.

Oh great. Another post misrepresenting God again!!! And as always it's out of context. The same pre-digested pablum comes out again and again and again.

Originally posted by IandEye
the essenes and othe jewish gnostics believed that satan is god and god is beyond all our senses. to personify god with mercy and kindness is ego-projection and narcissim. but making fun of that is even worse.

Sorry, I wasn't talking about how jewish gnostics interpreted things. I referenced the loving, merciful god because it is commonly referred to as such. Making fun of it is appropriate.