Death in the Bible (page 2)

Paralipomenon

I always wondered if Lot got "initiated" when he moved there...

Anti-Christ

If I'm not mistaking, in the bible god kills about 371 186 and orders the killing of 1 862 265 people.

wherehasmyhairgone

This was taken from a blog, from what i check this guy has it pretty much dead on ( pun intended). Thank Zeus its all fairly tales.

http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-many-has-god-killed.html

So far I come up with a total of 2,270,365 (not inlcuding, at least in some cases, women and children).

	SAB, Brick Testament	Number Killed	Cummulative Total
Lot's wife for looking back	Gen.19:26, BT	1	1
Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord"	Gen.38:7, BT	1	2
Onan for spilling his seed	Gen.38:10, BT	1	3
For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf	Ex.32:27-28, 35, BT	3000	3003
Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord	Lev.10:1-3, Num.3:4, 26:61, BT	2	3005
A blasphemer	Lev.24:10-23, BT	1	3006
A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath	Num.15:32-36, BT	1	3007
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families)	Num.16:27, BT	12+	3019+
Burned to death for offering incense	Num.16:35, 26:10, BT	250	3269+
For complaining	Num.16:49, BT	14,700	17,969+
For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab"	Num.25:9, BT	24,000	41,969+
Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive)	Num.31:1-35, BT	90,000+	131,969+
God tells Joshua to stoned to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing.	Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26, BT	5+	131,974+
God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone).	Joshua 8:1-25, BT	12,000	143,974+
Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees	Joshua 10:24-26, BT	5	143,979+
God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites	Judges 1:4, BT	10,000	153,979+
Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly	Jg.3:15-22, BT	1	153,980+
God delivered Moabites	Jg.3:28-29, BT	10,000	163,980+
God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other.	Jg.7:2-22, 8:10, BT	120,000	283,980+
The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson	Jg.14:19, BT	30	284,010+
The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson	Jg.15:14-15, BT	1000	285,010+
Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism	Jg.16:27-30, BT	3000	288,010+
"The Lord smote Benjamin"	Jg.20:35-37, BT	25,100	313,110+
More Benjamites	Jg.20:44-46	25,000	338,110+
For looking into the ark of the Lord	1 Sam.6:19	50,070	388,180+
God delivered Philistines	1 Sam.14:12	20	388,200+
Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death	1 Sam.15:32-33	1	388,201+
"The Lord smote Nabal."	1 Sam.25:38	1	388,202+
Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling	2 Sam.6:6-7, 1 Chr.13:9-10	1	388,203+
David and Bathsheba's baby boy	2 Sam.12:14-18	1	388,204+
Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord	2 Sam.21:6-9	7	388,211+
From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and children)	2 Sam.24:13, 1 Chr.21:7	70,000+	458,211+
A prophet for believing another prophet's lie	1 Kg.13:1-24	1	458,212+
God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands	1 Kg.20:28-29	100,000	558,212+
God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers	1 Kg.20:30	27,000	585,212+
God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet	1 Kg.20:35-36	1	585,213+
Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god.	2 Kg.1:2-4, 17, 2 Chr.22:7-9	1	585,214+
Burned to death by God	2 Kg.1:9-12	102	585,316+
God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head	2 Kg.2:23-24	42	585,348+
Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah	2 Kg.7:17-20	1	585,349+
Jezebel	2 Kg.9:33-37	1	585,360+
God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners	2 Kg.17:25-26	3+	585,363+
Sleeping Assyrian soldiers	2 Kg.19:35, 2 Chr.32:21, Is.37:36	185,000	770,363+
Saul	1 Chr.10:14	1	770,364+
God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah	2 Chr.13:15-17	500,000	1,270,364+
Jeroboam	2 Chr.13:20	1	1,270,365+
"The Lord smote the Ethiopians."	2 Chr.14:9-14	1,000,000	2,270,365+
God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out	2 Chr.21:14-19	1	2,270,366+
Ezekiel's wife	Ezek.24:15-18	1	2,270,367+
Ananias and Sapphira	Acts 5:1-10	2	2,270,369+
Herod	Acts 12:23, BT	1	2,270,369+

This doesn't include the flood or S&G.

Interestly Satan has only killed 8 in the OT. So who is the moral one again.

Leolaia

Moreover, Satan killed the 8 with explicit permission from God. So wouldn't that at least make him an accomplice in those deaths too.

Job's first batch of children, along with innocent animals, just to prove a bet with Satan. After God won the bet, Job had another batch of kids, which was supposed to make up for the loss of the first ones. Job must have been one brain-dead, emotionally-crippled guy to think children could be replaced so easily.

Dagney

When one starts reading the Bible objectively, one (me) is amazed at how cheap life is.

Yet, we were told, led to believe a whole different story...how precious life is.

Well it is to me now. No glee on my part for the doozy of a prediction of God's war. If he waits long enough, the death toll may climb to 10, 15, 20 billion!!

Is that enough sacrifice to make him "happy?"

startingover

There is a lot of death in the bible, if you actually believe those things happened. I have doubts about most of it and am real sure they just made those numbers up.

proplog2

Death is in the real world.

Death in the Bible