Biblical Executions

Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests

     (Deuteronomy 17:12 )

Kill Witches

     (Exodus 22:18 )

Kill Homosexuals
     (Leviticus 20:13 )

Kill Fortunetellers

 (Leviticus 20:27 )

Death for Hitting Dad

     (Exodus 21:15 )

Death for Cursing Parents

 (Proverbs 20:20 )(Leviticus 20:9 )

Death for Adultery

     (Leviticus 20:10 )

Death for Fornication

     (Leviticus 21:9 )

Death to Followers of Other Religions

     (Exodus 22:19 )

Kill Nonbelievers

 (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 )

Kill False Prophets

 (Zechariah 13:3 )

Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God

 (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 )

Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night

 (Deuteronomy  22:20-21 )

Kill Followers of Other Religions.

 (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 ) (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 )

Death for Blasphemy

    (Leviticus 24:10-16 )

Kill False Prophets

     (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 )(Deuteronomy 18:20-22 )

Infidels and Gays Should Die

 (Romans 1:24-32 )

Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle

 (Numbers 1:48-51 )

Kill People for Working on the Sabbath

     (Exodus 31:12-15 )


2) God’s Murders for Stupid Reasons:

Kill Brats (baldhead – bear kills 42)

(2 Kings 2:23-24 )

God Kills the Curious (57,000 killed for looking at the ark)

 (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)

Killed by a Lion for NOT striking a prophet as ordered

 (1 Kings 20:35-36 )

Killing the Good Samaritan for steadying the ark

 (2 Samuel 6:3-7 )


3) Murdering Children

Kill Sons of Sinners

 (Isaiah 14:21 )

God Will Kill Children

 (Hosea 9:11-16 )

Kill Men, Women, and Children –“Defile the Temple!” the LORD commanded.  “Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill!  Go!”  

 (Ezekiel 9:5-7 )

God Kills all the First Born of Egypt

 (Exodus 12:29-30 )

Kill Old Men and Young Women

 (Jeremiah 51:20-26)

     (Note that after God promises the Israelites a victory against Babylon, the Israelites actually get their butts kicked by them in the next chapter.  So much for an all-knowing and all-powerful God.)

God Will Kill the Children of those hostile to him

 (Leviticus 26:21-22 )

More Rape and Baby Killing

 (Isaiah 13:15-18 )


4) Miscellaneous Murders

More of Samson’s Murders

    (The Lord saves Sampson from standing trial for 30 murders and arson by allowing him to kill 1000 more men.)   (Judges 15:14-15 )

Peter Kills Two People for keeping some of their own money

 (Acts 5:1-11 )

Mass Murder

Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.’   (1 Samuel 15:2-3 )

You Have to Kill

    Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.  (Jeremiah 48:10 )

The Danites Kill the Next Town

    But the territory of the Danites was too small for them; so the Danites marched up and attacked Leshem, which they captured and put to the sword.  Once they had taken possession of Lesham, they renamed the settlement after their ancestor Dan.  (Joshua 19:47 )

God Kills Some More

I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.”  (Jeremiah 15:1-4 )

God Promises More Killing 

    I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.  I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword.  I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  (Ezekiel 35:7-9 )

The Angel of Death

    My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.  (Exodus 23:23 )

Destruction of Ai

So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died

 (Joshua 8:1-29 )

Killing at Jericho

They completely destroyed everything in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything.  (Joshua 6:20-21 )

God Kills an Extended Family

I will bring disaster on your dynasty and kill all your sons, slave or free alike.  (1 Kings 14:9-16 )

Mass Murder

    The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites, putting to the sword the inhabitants of the city, the livestock, and all they chanced upon.  Moreover they destroyed by fire all the cities they came upon.  (Judges 20:48 )

The Angel of Death

    That night the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty five thousand men in the Assyrian camp.  Early the next morning, there they were, all the corpuses of the dead.  (2 Kings 19:35 )

Kill Your Neighbors, Sons and Brothers

 (Exodus 32:26-29 )

Kill (stone) the Family of one who saved for himself some of the loot and did not give it to the church

 (Joshua 7:19-26)

Kill Followers of Other Religions

24,000 people killed.  (Numbers 25:1-9 )

Murder of other religious leaders

 (1 Kings 18:36-40 )

Kill All of Babylon

Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,” (Jeremiah 50:21-22 )

Micah Kills a Whole Town 

The men of Dan came to the town of Laish, whose people were peaceful and secure.  They attacked and killed all the people and burned the town to the ground.  (Judges 18:27-29 )  (Note that God approves of this slaughter in verse 6.)