| Fatalities | Crime | Method used | Biblical reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 million (estimated). | People being evil. | Drowning. | Genesis 6:7 |
| The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (population of Sodom estimated to be 600-1200, Gomorrah presumably would be similar). | According to Genesis: Being evil and wanting to rape two angels (who visited Sodom in the form of men). According to Ezekiel (depending on translation): Being prideful (arrogant), overfed and unconcerned (having an abundance of idleness); neglecting the poor and needy; being haughty and committing abominations before God. The passage suggests that a mob were interested in homosexual rape in respect of the angels. Lot - the only example of a good man in the city - offered them his virgin daughters instead, but the mob were not interested. | Burnt to death by fire and a rain of burning sulfur. | Genesis 19:4-5 Ezekiel 16:46-47 (specifically Ezekiel 16:49-50) |
| Lot’s wife. | Pausing to look back at the spectacle of God destroying entire cities, including her own residence and all her possessions, in a massive conflagration of fire and brimstone. | Transformed in to a pillar of salt. | Genesis 19:26 |
| Er, the firstborn of Judah. | Being "wicked in the sight of the Lord" | Not specified | Genesis 38:7 |
| Onan (Er’s brother and apparent inventor of onanism) | Disobeying God's orders to impregnate his dead brother's wife (or “spilling his seed”). | Not specified | Genesis 38:9-10 (unlucky family) |
| The firstborn of Egypt. | Being firstborn when God decided to show his strength. God hardened Pharaoh's heart so he refused to let the Israelites go. | The Angel of Death. | Exodus 12:29 (Rather tough on the kids who really had nothing to do with it.) |
| The Egyptian army. | Refusing to disobey orders to pursue the Israelites fleeing through the Red Sea, which was parted with walls of water on both sides of the path. | Drowned when the seawater returned. | Exodus 14:28 God kills you or the boss kills you. |
| Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron. | Offering strange fire before the Lord. | Burnt to death | Leviticus 10:1-3 If you don't get the ritual right then death is the result. |
| Undisclosed number of Israelites. | Complaining against God | Fire | Numbers 11:1-3 |
| Undisclosed number of Israelites. | Complaining about the food and wanting to go back to Egypt for an easier life. | Plague | Numbers 11:4-35 |
| Ten scouts sent to explore the promised land | Spreading bad reports about this land containing giants, and being too difficult to conquer. | Plague | Numbers 14:36-38. If you don't give the answer the boss wants then you're in big trouble. |
| Korah, Dathan, Abiram and their respective families. | Claiming to be as holy as Moses and Aaron. | The earth opened up and swallowed them - burying them alive. | Numbers 16:27-32, which implies the children were killed, but Numbers 26:11 states Korah's children survived. |
| 250 Israelites. | Followers of Korah (see above) | Burnt to death by fire from God. | Numbers 16:35 |
| 14,700 Israelites. | Complaining about the previous two loving assassinations concerning Korah. | Plague | Numbers 16:49 (The management thanks you for your feedback. Now die!) |
| Undisclosed number of Israelites. | Despairing, and complaining about the quality of bread. | Being bitten to death by divinely summoned fiery serpents, although casting a bronze snake and looking upon it would prevent them from dying. | Numbers 21:4-9 (Honestly, wouldn't it be cool just to try this to see it happen? C'mon, I dare ya...) |
| 24,000 Israelites | Sexual immorality with Moabite women and worshiping Baal. | Plague. | Numbers 25:9 (Proving once more that despite God being obviously real and very jealous, Israelites would worship a sandwich if Moses so much as popped out to buy a newspaper.) |
| Undisclosed number of Ammorites | Waging war against Israel, trying to protect themselves and their families from the holy slaughter that the Israelites regularly inflicted on their enemies | Sending hailstones from Heaven | Joshua 10:10-11 |
| Either 70 or 50,070 Israelites (dependent on how the inerrant Bible is translated). | Looking into the Ark of the Covenant (Like the ending of Indiana Jones: Raiders of The Lost Ark). | Not specified | 1 Samuel 6:19 (You would have thought the 50,070th Israelite would have more sense than to climb a mountain of 50,069 bodies and look into a box) |
| Nabal. | David refrained from murdering Nabal's servants or stealing from him. He expected his kindness to be repaid in the form of gifts from Nabal, but Nabal declined. God killed Nabal before David had the chance to go "avenging thyself with thine own hand." | Not specified | 1 Samuel 25:38 (This was quite convenient as David, an avid collector of wives, got to marry Nabal's wife who was quite hot.) |
| Uzzah. | Touching the Ark while trying to prevent it from tipping over. | Not specified. | 2 Samuel 6:6-7 (Which seems grossly unfair - should he have just let it fall to the ground and be broken?) |
| David and Bathsheba's baby boy. | None. The baby was killed in order to punish David for his adultery with Bathsheba and subsequently arranging the death of her husband Uriah. | Not specified | 2 Samuel 12:14-18 (The life of a baby is sacred, as explained by Christians, but it's worth squat when God is angry with the parents.) |
| 70,000 assorted Israelites | Inspired by either God, or perhaps Satan - the Bible is a tad unclear - David took a census of his lands and people. | Plague | 2 Samuel 24:13 , despite being told to by God in 2 Samuel 24:1. (Unless you read 1 Chronicles 21:1, where the devil did it) |
| An unnamed prophet | The prophet had been told by God to not eat bread, but another guy claimed he too was a prophet, and that God had commanded him to bring the prophet home for some food. | Eaten by lions | 1 Kings 13:1-24 (That’s what happens when you follow the advice of self-proclaimed prophets.) |
| Jeroboam's son. | None. Child killed to punish Jeroboam, to save him from a massacre God was planning for the rest of Jeroboam's family, and possibly also as a sign used to confirm a prophecy. | Not specified. Died in his mother's arms. | 1 Kings 14:10-18 (God euthanizes a child to save him from the terrors of...His own wrath?) |
| An unnamed man | Refusal to strike a prophet when ordered to do so by the prophet in question. | Killed by a lion (God really enjoys using Lions in Kings). | 1 Kings 20:35-36 (Weird or what?) |
| King Ahaziah | Seeking medical advice from a rival god, and Baal worship. | Died in bed while recovering from an earlier fall. | 1 Kings 22:51 and 2 Kings 1:16 (Baal must have been pretty good to compete with a Yahweh: the God who would incinerate your children.) |
| 102 soldiers | Being impolite to Elijah and serving King Ahziah. (Although they would have attempted to remove Elijah by force/kill him for not obeying Ahaziah had God not intervened) | Burnt to death. | 2 Kings 1:9-12 (This verse is worth reading, since it's almost comical the way in which the soldiers queue up to be incinerated.) |
| 42 youths. | They mocked Elisha's bald head. | No kidding - God sends 2 she-bears to maul them to death. | 2 Kings 2:23-24 (Evidently there weren't any lions to hand).[SUP][2][/SUP] |
| Some foreigners. | Not worshiping God | Killed by lions | 2 Kings 17:25-26 ("Death by lion" crops up with suspicious frequency. Did the author of Kings have some kind of lion-phobia?) |
| 185,000 soldiers. | Being at war with Israel | Killed by the angel of the Lord while they slept. | 2 Kings 19:35 |
| Jeroboam. | Rebelling against Abijah, the king of Israel based on dependence from David. | Not specified | 2 Chronicles 13:20 |
| Jehoram. | Doing evil in the sight of the Lord. | Stricken by a disease that caused his bowels to fall out. | 2 Chronicles 21:14-19 (Nasty way to go.) |
Oh dear, is fear all you have to try and coerce someone to believe in your imaginary monsters? Sorry, no sale.
Pot, meet Kettle. Are you even at all cognizant of the display you put on here? Just a religious robot, spewing nonsense?
