Drunk With Blood (32 page)
Estimate: 100
117.
Just another holy war
Estimate: 50. 000
118.
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers
500,000
119.
Jeroboam
1
120.
God killed a million Ethiopians
1,000,000
121.
Friendly Fire: God forced “a great multitude” to kill each other
Estimate: 30,000
122.
God made Jehoram’s bowels fall out
1
123.
God killed Jehoram’s sons
Estimate: 3
124.
Ahaziah (of Judah)
1
125.
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah
Many more than 1
Estimate: 10,000
126.
God destroyed Amaziah
More than 1
Estimate: 1000
127.
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria
Many more than 1
Estimate: 10,000
128.
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him
120,000
129.
The fall of Jerusalem
Estimate: 10,000
130.
God and Satan kill Job’s children and slaves
More than 10
Estimate: 60
131.
Hananiah
1
132.
Ezekiel’s wife
1
133.
Ananias and Sapphira
2
134.
Herod Aggripa
1
135.
Jesus
1
Totals:
Biblical Numbers Only:
2,476,636
Estimate:
24,634,205
Cover: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Introduction: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (Apocolypse)
2 Gustave Doré (Genesis 14.17)
3 Edward Armitage (Genesis 19.24)
7 Gustave Doré (Genesis 41.54-57)
9 Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Exodus 12.29-30)
10 Gustave Doré (Exodus 14.27-28)
12 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (Exodus 32.27-28)
14 James Tissot (Leviticus 10.1-2)
15 Gerard Hoet (Leviticus 24.23)
18 Gustave Doré (Numbers 14.36-37)
20 Gustave Doré (Numbers 16.31-33)
22 James Tissot (Numbers 16.49)
32 Gustave Doré (Joshua 7.24-26)
33 Gustave Doré (Joshua 8.21-29)
34 Gustave Doré (Joshua 10.10-12)
49 Gustave Doré (Judges 9.23-57)
54 Gustave Doré (Judges 15.14-15)
55 Gustave Doré (Judges 16.27-30)
57 Gustave Doré (Judges 21.10-14)
66 unknown (1 Samuel 15.32-33)
67 Gustave Doré (1 Samuel 17.49-54)
73 Gustave Doré (1 Samuel 31.1-4)
81 Gustave Doré (2 Samuel 11.1, 1 Chronicles 20.1)
87 Gustave Doré (1 Kings 13.23-24)
93 Gustave Doré (1 Kings 18.40)
95 Gustave Doré (1 Kings 20.29)
99 Gustave Doré (2 Kings 1.10-12)
101 Gustave Doré (2 Kings 2.23-24)
106 Gustave Doré (2 Kings 9.33)
113 Gustave Doré (2 Kings 17.25-26)
114 Gustave Doré (2 Kings 19.35, Isaiah 37.36)
I’d like to thank those who commented at my blog,
Dwindling in Unbelief
, as I worked my way through God’s killings. The discussions there helped me decide which killings to include, how many deaths to count, and helped me correct countless mistakes in both form and fact. Special thanks to Abielle, Baconsbud, busterggi, Brendan, Brucker, Clint Burky, Daniel, Fragged mind, FrodoSaves, I Am, I am the wise fool, Ian G., joshua, Markus Arelius, matt311, Matthew Blanchette, Misty, psybermonkey, Robert, sconner, skanksta, teavee, twillight, uzza, and v_quixotic.
Steve Wells is the creator of T
he Skeptic’s Annotated Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon
(
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com
) and is the author of the blog,
Dwindling in Unbelief
(
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com
). He has spent way too much time (the last 20 years) analyzing the three worst books ever written.
Giordano Bruno
(1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who is best known as a proponent of the infinity of the universe. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in identifying the sun as just one of an infinite number of independently moving heavenly bodies, with stars being similar in nature to the sun. He was burned at the stake February 17, 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy, and is, therefore, rightfully regarded as a martyr for science and free thought.