MURDER
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone
arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who
represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be
purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12
NLT)
Kill Witches
You should
not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill
Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put
to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."
(Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill
Fortunetellers
A man
or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by
stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death.
(Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death
for Hitting Dad
Whoever
strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother,
his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must
be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense.
(Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death
for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's
wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus
20:10 NLT)
Death
for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by
committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned
to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death
to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone,
shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill
Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God
of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not
seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or
great, whether man or woman. (2
Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies,
his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live,
because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he
prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah
13:3 NAB)
Kill
the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your
God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow
citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such
cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and
can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack
that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the
livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street
and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the
LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be
rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for
destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be
merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great
nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your
God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving
you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and
evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the
entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death,
because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her
father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
(Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill
Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or
your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you
secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of
any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the
other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to
spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to
slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone
him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all
Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your
midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of
your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of
the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by
worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have
strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter
thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,
then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to
death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
Death
for Blasphemy
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an
Egyptian father got into a fight with one of the Israelite men. During
the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So
the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother's name was
Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put
the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should become clear.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the camp,
and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let
the entire community stone him to death. Say to the people of Israel:
Those who blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be
punished. Anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be stoned to death
by the whole community of Israel. Any Israelite or foreigner among you
who blasphemes the LORD's name will surely die. (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)
Kill False Prophets
1) Suppose there are
prophets among you, or those who have dreams about the future, and they promise
you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs or miracles take place.
If the prophets then say, 'Come, let us worship the gods of foreign
nations,' do not listen to them. The LORD your God is testing you to see
if you love him with all your heart and soul. Serve only the LORD your
God and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling
to him. The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be
put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who
brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt. Since they try to keep
you from following the LORD your God, you must execute them to remove the evil
from among you. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT)
2) But any prophet who claims to give a
message from another god or who falsely claims to speak for me must die.'
You may wonder, 'How will we know whether the prophecy is from the LORD or
not?' If the prophet predicts something in the LORD's name and it does
not happen, the LORD did not give the message. That prophet has spoken on
his own and need not be feared. (Deuteronomy 18:20-22 NLT)
So God let them go ahead and
do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did
vile and degrading things with each other's bodies. Instead of believing
what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe
lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself,
who is to be praised forever. Amen. That is why God abandoned them
to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way
to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men,
instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for
each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result,
suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved. When they
refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them
do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every
kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception,
malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God,
insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing new ways of
sinning and are disobedient to their parents. They refuse to understand,
break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving. They are fully
aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right
ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do
them, too. (Romans 1:24-32 NLT)
Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle
For the LORD had said to Moses, 'Exempt the
tribe of Levi from the census; do not include them when you count the rest of
the Israelites. You must put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of
the Covenant, along with its furnishings and equipment. They must carry
the Tabernacle and its equipment as you travel, and they must care for it and
camp around it. Whenever the Tabernacle is moved, the Levites will take
it down and set it up again. Anyone else who goes too near the Tabernacle
will be executed.' (Numbers 1:48-51 NLT)
Kill People for Working on the Sabbath
The LORD then gave these further instructions
to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is
a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to
remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath
day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die;
anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six
days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat:
Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must
be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
2) God's Murders for
Stupid Reasons:
From there Elisha went up to Bethel.
While he was on his way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at
him. "Go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up
baldhead!" The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in
the name of the Lord. Then two shebears came out of the woods and tore
forty two of the children to pieces. (2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB)
God
Kills the Curious
And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because
they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men,
`and' fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten
the people with a great slaughter. And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who
is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from
us? (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)
Killed by a Lion
Meanwhile, the LORD
instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, "Strike
me!" But the man refused to strike the prophet. Then the
prophet told him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a
lion will kill you as soon as you leave me." And sure enough, when
he had gone, a lion attacked and killed him. (1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)
The ark of God was placed on a new cart and
taken away from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons
of Abinadab guided the cart, with Ahio walking before it, while David and all
the Israelites made merry before the Lord with all their strength, with singing
and with citharas, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan,
Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen were
making it tip. But the Lord was angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that
spot, and he died there before God. (2 Samuel 6:3-7 NAB)
3) 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.) When he
reached Lehi, and the Philistines came shouting to meet him, the spirit of the
Lord came upon him: the ropes around his arms become as flax that is consumed
by fire and the bonds melted away from his hands. Near him was the fresh
jawbone of an ass; he reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand
men. (Judges 15:14-15 NAB)
Peter
Kills Two People
There was also a man named Ananias who, with his
wife, Sapphira, sold some property. He brought part of the money to the
apostles, but he claimed it was the full amount. His wife had agreed to
this deception. Then Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your
heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for
yourself. The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you
wished. And after selling it, the money was yours to give away. How
could you do a thing like this? You weren't lying to us but to
God." As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and
died. Everyone who heard about it was terrified. Then some young
men wrapped him in a sheet and took him out and buried him. About three
hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked
her, "Was this the price you and your husband received for your
land?" "Yes," she replied, "that was the
price." And Peter said, "How could the two of you even think of
doing a thing like this – conspiring together to test the Spirit of the
Lord? Just outside that door are the young men who buried your husband,
and they will carry you out, too." Instantly, she fell to the floor
and died. When the young men came in and saw that she was dead, they
carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear gripped the
entire church and all others who heard what had happened. (Acts 5:1-11 NLT)
Mass
Murder
This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: 'I
will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming
up from Egypt. Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he
has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and
infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.' (1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)
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 NAB)
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 NAB)
God
Kills Some More
Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and
Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them.
Away with them! Get them out of my sight! And if they say to you,
'But where can we go?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: Those who are
destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who
are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to
captivity.' "I will send four kinds of destroyers against
them," says the LORD. "I will send the sword to kill, the dogs
to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is
left. Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of
Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the
kingdoms of the earth." (Jeremiah
15:1-4 NLT)
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 NLT)
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 NAB)
Destruction
of Ai
Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid
or discouraged. Take the entire army and attack Ai, for I have given to
you the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. You will destroy
them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the
captured goods and the cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the
city." So Joshua and the army of Israel set out to attack Ai.
Joshua chose thirty thousand fighting men and sent them out at night with these
orders: "Hide in ambush close behind the city and be ready for action.
When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did
before, and we will run away from them. We will let them chase us until
they have all left the city. For they will say, 'The Israelites are running
away from us as they did before.' Then you will jump up from your ambush
and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God will give it to
you. Set the city on fire, as the LORD has commanded. You have your
orders." So they left that night and lay in ambush between Bethel
and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained among the people in the camp
that night.
Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and
started toward Ai, accompanied by the leaders of Israel. They camped on
the north side of Ai, with a valley between them and the city. That night
Joshua sent five thousand men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the
west side of the city. So they stationed the main army north of the city
and the ambush west of the city. Joshua himself spent that night in the
valley. When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and
all his army hurriedly went out early the next morning and attacked the
Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley. But he didn't realize there was an ambush behind the city.
Joshua and the Israelite army fled toward the wilderness as though they were
badly beaten, and all the men in the city were called out to chase after
them. In this way, they were lured away from the city. There was
not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after the Israelites, and the
city was left wide open.
Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Point your
spear toward Ai, for I will give you the city." Joshua did as he was
commanded. As soon as Joshua gave the signal, the men in ambush jumped up
and poured into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on
fire. When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the city was
filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in
the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers. When Joshua
and the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was
rising from the city, they turned and attacked the men of Ai. Then the
Israelites who were inside the city came out and started killing the enemy from
the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died. Not a
single person survived or escaped. Only the king of Ai was taken alive
and brought to Joshua.
When the Israelite army finished killing all the
men outside the city, they went back and finished off everyone inside. So
the entire population of Ai was wiped out that day – twelve thousand in all.
For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai
was completely destroyed. Only the cattle and the treasures of the city
were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these for themselves, as the LORD
had commanded Joshua. So Ai became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate
to this very day. Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there
until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body and threw it in
front of the city gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that
can still be seen today. (Joshua 8:1-29 NLT)
Killing
at Jericho
When the people heard the sound of the horns, they
shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and
the Israelites charged straight into the city from every side and captured
it. They completely destroyed everything in it – men and women, young and
old, cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything. (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)
God
Kills an Extended Family
"You have done more evil than all who lived
before you. You have made other gods and have made me furious with your
gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me, I will bring
disaster on your dynasty and kill all your sons, slave or free alike. I
will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all
gone. I, the LORD, vow that the members of your family who die in the
city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by
vultures.'" Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam's wife, "Go on home,
and when you enter the city, the child will die. All Israel will mourn
for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have
a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God
of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam. And the LORD will raise
up a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam. This will
happen today, even now! Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He
will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their
ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have
angered the LORD by worshiping Asherah poles. He will abandon Israel
because Jeroboam sinned and made all of Israel sin along with him." (1
Kings 14:9-16 NLT)
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 NAB)
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 NAB)
Kill
Your Neighbors
(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and
shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side, come over here and join
me." And all the Levites came. He told them, "This is what the
LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one
end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and
neighbors." The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand
people died that day. Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have
been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it
meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you
a great blessing." (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)
Kill
the Family of Sinners
And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray
thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me
now what thou hast done, hide it not from me. And Achan answered Joshua,
and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and
thus have I done. When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish
garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty
shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them, and behold, they are hid in
the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it." [Note
that the sin is not looting, but failing to give the loot to the treasury of
the Lord.] "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and
behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. And they took
them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the
children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. And Joshua, and
all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the
garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen,
and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they
brought them to the valley of Achor. And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled
us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him
with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with
stones. And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this
day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of
his anger: wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to
this day. (Joshua 7:19-26 Webster's Bible)
Kill Followers of Other Religions
While the Israelites were
camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled themselves by sleeping with the local
Moabite women. These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their
gods, and soon the Israelites were feasting with them and worshiping the gods of
Moab. Before long Israel was joining in the worship of Baal of Peor,
causing the LORD's anger to blaze against his people. The LORD issued the
following command to Moses: "Seize all the ringleaders and execute them
before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the
people of Israel." So Moses ordered Israel's judges to execute
everyone who had joined in worshiping Baal of Peor. Just then one of the
Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into the camp, right before the eyes of
Moses and all the people, as they were weeping at the entrance of the
Tabernacle. When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest
saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly. Then he took a spear and
rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way
through the man's body and into the woman's stomach. So the plague
against the Israelites was stopped, but not before 24,000 people had died. (Numbers
25:1-9 NLT)
Murder
At the customary time for
offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and
prayed, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove today that you
are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this
at your command. O LORD, answer me! Answer me so these people will know
that you, O LORD, are God and that you have brought them back to
yourself." Immediately the fire of the LORD flashed down from heaven
and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even
licked up all the water in the ditch! And when the people saw it, they
fell on their faces and cried out, "The LORD is God! The LORD is
God!" Then Elijah commanded, "Seize all the prophets of Baal.
Don't let a single one escape!" So the people seized them all,
and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there. (1
Kings 18:36-40 NLT)
Kill All of Babylon
"Go up, my warriors, against the land of
Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Yes, march against Babylon, the land
of rebels, a land that I will judge! Pursue, kill, and completely destroy
them, as I have commanded you," says the LORD. "Let the battle
cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction". (Jeremiah
50:21-22 NLT)
Micah Kills a Whole Town
Then, with Micah's idols and his priest, 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. There was no one to rescue the residents of the town, for they lived
a great distance from Sidon and had no allies nearby. This happened in
the valley near Beth-rehob.Then the people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town
and lived there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor, Israel's
son, but it had originally been called Laish. (Judges 18:27-29 NLT)
(Note that God approves of this slaughter in verse 6.)
