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Recorded Deaths In The Bible

2,598 wordsrevised 2015-08-01

(many battle as well as other deaths

implied and numbers not given)

(Living Bible used, others may say more or less)

(Listings of natural deaths are just assumed to be so)

Everyone died except two

Enoch; Genesis 5:21-24

Enoch was sixty-five years old when his son Methuselah was born. Afterwards he lived another 300 years in fellowship with God, and produced sons and daughters; then, when he was 365, and in constant touch with God, he disappeared, for God took him!

Elihah; 2 Kings 2:11

As they were walking along, talking, suddenly a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire, appeared and drove between them, separating them, and Elijah was carried by a whirlwind into heaven.

People brought back to live

1 KINGS

17:22 son of a woman who helped Elijah

2 KINGS

4:34 son of a woman who helped Elisha

13:21 man threw into the tomb of Elisha

GENESIS

CHILD BIRTH

35:19 Rachel

EXECUTED

40:22 Pharoh's chief baker

GOD DESTROYED

7:23 all living things on the earth except Noah and his family and the creatures of the Ark

19:25 Sodom/Gomorrah/other cities and villages

19:26 Turned Lot's wife into pillar of salt

GOD KILLED

38:7 Er

38:10 Onan

MURDERED

4:8 Cain killed Abel

34:25 Hamor and Shechem and all the men in the city

49:6 unnamed

SELF-DEFENSE

4:23 Lamech killed a youth

SLAUGHTER

14:6,7 Amalekites and the Amorites living in Hazzazan-Tamar

WAY NOT GIVEN

5:5 Adam

5:8 Seth

5:11 Enosh

5:14 Kenan

5:17 Mahalael

5:20 Jared

5:27 Methuselah

5:31 Lamech

9:29 Noah

11:11 Shem

11:13 Arpachshad

11:15 Shelah

11:17 Eber

11:19 Peleg

11:21 Reu

11:23 Serug

11:25 Nahor

11:28 Haran

11:32 Terah

15:15 Abram

23:1 Sarah

25:8 Abraham

25:17 Ishmael

35:8 Deborah

35:28 Isaac

38:12 Judah's wife

47:28 Jacob

49:31 Rebekah\Leah

50:26 Joseph

EXODUS

BATTLE

17:13 army of Amalen

GOD KILLED

9:25 Egyptian men in the fields by a storm

12:29 all first born males of Egyptians

14:28 Pharoh and his army

GOD ORDERED

32:28 God told Levities to kill those in the camp, about 3,000 men

MURDERED

1:22 throw all new born Hebrew boys into the Nile river

2:12 Moses killed an Egyptian

WAY NOT GIVEN

1:6 Joseph's 11 brothers

2:23 king of Egypt

4:19 all those in Egypt who wanted to kill Moses

6:16 Levi

6:18 Kohath

6:20 Amram

LEVITICUS

GOD ORDERED

24:23 man stoned to death for cursing God

NUMBERS

BATTLE

21:3 Israel completely destroyed the Canaanites

21:23 Israel slaughtered the Amorites

21:35 King Og, his sons and all his subjects

31:7 every man of Midian was killed by the Israeli army

EXECUTED

15:36 man stoned to death for gathering wood on the Sabbath day

25:9 Zimri, a Israel man and a Midianite girl, Cozbi, for worshipping idols

31:17 all Midian boys and all the women who had sexual intercourse

GOD DESTROYED

11:1 those at far end of the camp were killed by fire for rebelling

11:33 large numbers who lusted for meat and for Egypt died of a plague

14:29,32,35 all over twenty years of age in the wilderness who complained against God

16:33 Korah, Dathan and Abiram, their families and fiends fell into a fissure

16:35 fire burned up 250 unauthorized men offering incense

16:49 14,700 died from a plague

21:6 many died by poisonous snake bites

25:9 24,000 died of the plague for worshipping idols

MURDERED

21:30 King Sihon destroyed the little children, and the men and women as far as Dibon, Nophah, and Medeba

WAY NOT GIVEN

20:1 Miriam

20:28 Aaron

DEUTERONOMY

WAY NOT GIVEN

34:7 Moses

12:37 600,000 + Exodus

JOSHUA

BATTLE

6:21 Every man and women, young and old, except Rahab and her relatives, in the city of Jericho

7:5 thirty-six Israelites killed during attack on Ai and many others were killed while being chased by Amorites

8:22-24 entire population of Ai, except the king, 20,000

10:10,20 army of Israel slaughtered great numbers of the army of the King Adoni-zedek and five Amorite kings

10:28 city of Makkedah and its king

10:30 city of Libnah and its king

10:32 city of Lachish

10:33 King Horam and his entire army

10:35 everyone in city of Eglon

10:37 everyone in city of Hebron and all of its surrounding villages

10:39 everyone in city of Debir and all of its surrounding villages

11:8 vast army of King's Jamin, Jobab, Shimron, Achshaph, all of northern hill country, in Arabah, those in the lowland, in the mountain areas, Canaan, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusite hill country, and Hivite

11:11 everyone in city of Hazor and it's king

11:12 all other cities of those kings (11:8)

11:21 all the giants in the hill country of Hebron, Debir, Anab, Judah and Israel

12:1 all cities in area from valley of Arnon River to Mount Hermon, including eastern desert

12:24 thirty one kings and their cities and surrounding villages

19:48 city of Leshem

EXECUTED

7:25 Achan and his sons and daughters for stealing from God

8:24 king of Ai hung

10:26 five Kings by Joshua

GOD DESTROYED

10:11 God destroyed soldiers of King-zedek and Amorite kings by hail, more then died by the sword

WAY NOT GIVEN

24:29 Joshua

24:33 Eleazar, son of Aaron

JUDGES

BATTLE

1:4 ten thousand Canaanites and Perizzites at Bezek

1:17 people of Canaanites

1:18 cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron and their surrounding villages

1:19 the people of the hill country

1:25 entire population of city of Bethel except for one man and his family

3:29 about ten thousand Moabites

3:31 six hundred Philistines by Ehud with a ox goad

4:16 all of Sisera's army

4:24 all of King Jabin's people

7:23 fleeing army of Midian, one hundred twenty thousand

8:12 fifteen thousand

8:17 entire male population of Penuel

9:43,45 city of Shechem

9:49 about a thousand men and women in a fort next to temple of Baal-berith

11:33 Ammonites destroyed with a terrible slaughter from Aroer to Minnith

12:6 forty-two thousand people of Ephraim

15:15 Samson killed a thousand Philistines with a donkey's jawbone

18:27 people of city of Laish

20:21 twenty-two thousand Israelis outside Gibe-ah

20:25 eighteen thousand Israelis outside Gibe-ah

20:31 about thirty Israelis outside Gibe-ah

20:38 25,100 men of Benjamin

20:47 entire population of the tribe of Benjamin

EXECUTED

1:7 King Adoni-bezek

3:21 King Eglon

7:25 two Midian general's, Oreb and Zeeb

8:16 seventy-seven political and religious leaders

8:21 kings Zebah and Zalmunna

21:11 all the people of Jabesh-gilead except four hundred young virgins

GOD DESTROYED

7:22 caused army of Midian to kill each other

16:30 five Philistine leaders and three thousand people and Samson in a temple

MURDERED

4:21 Sisera by Jael

9:5 seventy of Abimelech's half-brothers

9:54 Abimelech by request to his armor bearer

14:9 Samson killed thirty men to get their clothing

15:6 the girl Samson was to marry and her father

15:8 Samson killed many Philistines for vengeance

19:26 girl raped and murdered by men of Gibe-ah

WAY NOT GIVEN

2:7 Joshua

2:10 all the generation of Joshua

3:11 Othni-el

8:32 Gideon

10:2 Tola

10:5 Jair

12:7 Jephthah

12:10 Ibzan

12:12 Elon

12:15 Abdon

RUTH

WAY NOT GIVEN

1:3 Elimelech

1:5 Mahlon and Chilion

1 SAMUEL

ACCIDENT

4:18 Eli

BATTLE

4:2 four thousand Israelis killed by Philistines

4:10 thirty thousand Israelis killed by Philistines

7:11 Israelis killed Philistines from Mizpah to Beth-car

11:11 Saul's army slaughtered the Ammonites

13:3 garrison of the Philistines at Geba

14:3 Jonathan and his bodyguard killed about twenty Philistines

14:31 Israelis killed Philistines all day from Michmash to Aijalon

15:7 Saul butchered the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur

17:51 Goliath, a Philistine giant by David

17:52 Israelis killed Philistines all along the road to Shaaraim

18:27 David and his men killed two hundred Philistines

19:8 David lead his troops against the Philistines and slaughtered many of them

23:5 David's men slaughtered the Philistines at Keilah

27:9 David and his troops killed everyone in villages raided

27:11 David and his troops killed everyone in villages they raided again and again

30:1 Amalekites killed the men in the city of Ziklag

30:17 David and his men killed Amalekites all night and day except four hundred whom escaped

31:1 Israelis slaughtered by Philistines wholesale on Mount Gilboa

31:2 Saul's sons Jonathan, Abinidab, and Malchishua

CHILD BIRTH

4:20 Eli's daughter-in-law

GOD DESTROYED

4:11 Hophni and Phinehas, Eli's sons, killed

5:6 people of Ashdod and nearby villages by a plague of boils

5:9 people of Gath with a plague of boils

5:11 part of city of Ekron with a plague of boils

6:19 seventy men of the city of Beth-shemesh for looking into the Ark

14:20 Philistines killed each other

25:38 Nabal

MURDERED

22:18 Doeg killed eighty-five priests

22:19 Doeg killed all in the city of Nob except Abiathar

28:8 Saul had all medium' and fortune-tellers killed

SUICIDE

31:4 Saul

31:5 Saul's armor bearer

WAY NOT GIVEN

25:1 Samuel

2 SAMUEL

BATTLE

2:16 twenty four soldiers in sword play

2:17 men of Israel

2:23 Asahel by Abner

2:30 nineteen men of Joab's

2:31 three hundred and sixty of Abner's men

5:7 the strong hold of Zion

5:20 David defeated the Philistines at Baal-perazim

5:25 David destroyed the Philistines from Geba to Gezer

8:5 twenty-two thousand Syrians from Damascus

8:13 eighteen thousand Edomites at the Valley of Salt

8:2 two-thirds of Philistines in cities of Gath and the land of Moab

10:18 seven hundred Syrian charioteers

18:7 twenty thousand men

21:17 a Philistine giant

21:18 a Philistine giant

21:19 the brother of Goliath

21:21 a Philistine giant

23:8 eight hundred men by Adino

23:10 Eleazar killed Philistines until his hand was too tired to hold his sword

23:19 Abishai killed three hundred men singlehanded

23:20 Benaiah killed two giants

23:21 Benaiah killed an Egyptian warrior

EXECUTED

1:15 David had a lying messenger killed

4:12 Rechab and Baanah for killing King Ish-bosheth

20:22 Sheba

GOD DESTROYED

6:7 Uzzah for touching the Ark

12:18 David's young son

24:15 seventy thousand men died from a plague

MURDERED

3:27 Joab killed Abner

4:7 King Ish-bosheth by Rechab and Baanah

11:17 Uriah, set up by David

13:29 Amnon

18:14 Absalom

20:10 Amasa

21:9 seven of Saul's sons

SUICIDE

17:23 Ahithopel hanged himself

WAY NOT GIVEN

10:1 Ammoniate king

12:18 baby of David and Bath-sheba

13:20 Elisha

1 KINGS

BATTLE

16:22 Tibni

20:20 7,232 men of Ahab each killed a Syrian soldier

20:21 most of the Syrian army

20:29 100,000 Syrian infantrymen

20:30 27,000 Syrian's

22:35 King Ahab

EXECUTED

2:25 Adonijah

2:34 Joab

2:46 Shime-i

15:12 male prostitutes

18:40 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah

GOD DESTROYED

13:24 a prophet by a lion for lying

14:17 child of Jeroboam's wife

14:20 Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:20)

16:34 Hiel's oldest and youngest son for rebuilding Jericho

20:36 a lion killed a man for not obeying a prophet

MURDERED

12:18 Adoram, stoned to death

15:27 Nadab (son of Jeroboam)

15:29 all of the descendants of King Jeroboam

16:10 King Elah

16:11 entire royal family of King Elah, distant relatives and friends

19:10 people of Israel killed prophets before Elijah

21:13 Naboth stoned to death

SUICIDE

16:18 Zimri

WAY NOT GIVEN

2:10 David

3:19 a baby

11:43 Solomon

14:31 Rehoboam

15:8 Abijam

15:24 Asa

16:28 General Omri

22:50 King Jehoshaphat

2 KINGS

Assassinated

12:20 Joash

BATTLE

3:24 men of Israel killed the army of Moab

3:25 men of Israel killed people in the land of Moab

9:24 King Joram

9:27 King Ahaziah

13:7 the army of Jehoahaz except for fifty mounted troop, ten chariots and ten thousand infantry

14:7 ten thousand Edomites in Salt Valley by King Amaziah

16:9 King Rezin of Syria

23:29 King Josiah

EXECUTED

11:16 Athaliah, mother of King Ahaziah

11:18 Mattan, the priest of Baal

14:5 those who assassinated the father of King Amaziah

23:5 Josiah killed heathen priests appointed by previous kings of Judah

23:20 Josiah executed priests of heathen shrines

23:24 Josiah exterminate mediums and wizards

25:21 a commander of the army of Judah, the chief recruiting officer, five of King Zedekiah counselors, and sixty farmers

GOD DESTROYED

1:10 a captain and his fifty men

1:12 a captain and his fifty men

1:17 Ahaziah for consulting with the god of Ekron

2:24 forty-two young boys for mocking and making fun of Elisha

7:17 a officer of the king trampled to death for not believing Elisha

9:33 Jezebel thrown out of a window

10:7 King Ahab seventy sons executed

10:11 remaining members of King Ahab family executed

10:14 forty-two brothers of King Ahab executed

10:17 all of King Ahab's friends and relatives in Samaria executed

10:25 all the prophets and priests of Baal executed

17:25 lions killed some Assyrain colonists for not worshipping God

19:35 the angel of the Lord killed one hundred and eight five thousand Assyrain troops

MURDERED

3:26 king of Moab sacrificed his son

6:28 a woman killed her son to eat

8:15 Hazael smothered King Benhadad

11:1 Anthaliah, mother of King Ahaziah of Judah killed all the children of her son

15:10 King Zechariah by Shallum, son of Jabesh

15:14 King Shallum by Menahem, son of Gadi

15:16 entire population of city of Tappuah and the surrounding countryside

15:25 King Pekahiah along with Argob and Arieh by Pekah, son of Remaliah

15:30 King Pekah by Hoshea, son of Elah

16:3 King Ahaz offered his son as a sacrifice

17:17 people of Israel burned their sons and daughters on the altars of Molech

17:31 Avvites and the people from Sephar burned their children on the altars of their gods Adrammelech and Anammelech

10:37 King Sennacherib by his sons

21:6 King Manasseh sacrificed one of his sons as a burnt offering

21:16 King Manasseh murdered great numbers of innocent people

21:23 King Amon assassinated

21:24 posse of civilians killed all the assassins of King Amon

25:7 sons of King Zedekiah

25:25 Gedaliah and his court

WAY NOT GIVEN

4:1 a seminary student

4:20 son of a woman who helped Elisha

8:24 Joram

10:35 Jehu

13:9 Jehoahaz

13:21 a man that was thrown into the tomb of Elisha, he came back to life

13:24 Hazael

14:16 Joash

14:17 Amaziah

14:29 Jeroboam II

15:7 Azariah

15:22 Menahem

15:38 Jotham

16:20 Ahaz

20:21 Hezekiah

23:34 Jehoahaz

24:6 Jehoiakim

1 CHRONICLES

BATTLE

4:41 the descendants of Ham

4:43 few surviving members of the tribe of Amalek at Mount Seir

5:22 a great number of Hagrites and their allies

11:6 first of David's men to kill a Jebusite

11:11 Jashobeam killed three hundred men with a spear

19:18 seven thousand Syrian charioteers, forty thousand troops and Shophach, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian army

20:4 Sibbecai killed one of the sons of the giant, Sippai

20:7 a giant by David's nephew Jonathan

EXECUTED

7:21 Ele-ad and Ezer for attempting to rustle cattle

WAY NOT GIVEN

1:44 Bela

1:45 Joab

1:46 Husham

1:47 Hadad

1:48 Samlah

1:50 Baal-hanan

3:19 Azubah

3:24 Hezron

3:30 Seled

3:32 Jether

19:1 Nahash

23:22 Eleazar (son of Mahli)

24:2 Nadab and Abihu (sons of Aaron)

2 CHRONICLES

ASSASSINATED

33:24 King Manasseh

BATTLE

13:17 five-hundred thousand elite troops of Israel

14:13 one million troops from Ethiopia

24:23 Syrian army killed all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem

27: 6 Pekah killed one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers of King Ahaz

GOD DESTROYED

20:23 Ammonites and Moabites turned against their allies from Mount Seir and killed every one of them and then turned against each other

21: 19 King Jehoram with a bowel disease

36:17 brought king of Babylon against Judah to kill their young men, young girls and old men

MURDERED

21:5 King Jehoram killed his all of his brothers and many other leaders of Israel

22:1 King Jehoram's sons by marauding bands of Arabs)

22:8 the princes of Judah, King Ahaziah's nephews

28:7 Zichri killed King Ahaz's son Ma-aseiah and his administrator Azrikam and his second-in-command Elhanah

33:24 some public-spirited citizens killed all those who assassinated King Amon

WAY NOT GIVEN

14:1 Abijah

26:21 Uzziah

33:20 Manasseh

ESTHER

BATTLE

9:6 Jews killed five hundred men in Shushan

9:7 Jews killed ten sons of Haman

9:15 Jews killed three hundred men in Shushan

9:16 Jews killed seventy-five thousand throughout the king's provinces

9:18 Jews killed more of their enemies

EXECUTED

2:23 two men for plotting to assassinate King Ahasueru

7:10 Haman hanged on seventy five foot high gallows

JOB

MURDERED

1:15 Sabeans killed all of Job's farmhands except one

1:16 Sabeans killed all of Job's herdsmen except one

1:17 Sabeans killed all of Job's servants except one

ACCIDENT

1:19 roof fell in on top of Job's children and killed all ten of them

WAY NOT GIVEN

42:17 Job

JEREMIAH

MURDERED

26:23 Uriah, son of Shemaiah, butchered by King Jehoiakim

52:24,24 Seriah chief priest, his assistant Zephaniah, three chief temple guards, one army commander, seven special counselors to the king, the secretary to the commander-in-chief Jewish army, sixty other men killed by king of Babylon at Riblah

WAY NOT GIVEN

28:17 Hananiah

EZEKIEL

WAY NOT GIVEN

24:18 Ezekiel's wife

DANIEL

EXECUTED

6:24 the men plotted to have Daniel killed for praying

HEAT FROM A FURNACE

3:22 soldiers that threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into a furnace

WAY NOT GIVEN

5:30 King Belshazzar, the Chaldean king

MATTHEW

CRUCIFIED

27:35 Jesus

27:38 two criminals crucified with Jesus

MURDERED

2:16 every baby boy, two years and under, in Bethlehem and on nearby farms

14:10 John the Baptist was beheaded

SUICIDE

27:5 Judas hanged himself

WAY NOT GIVEN

2:15 King Herod

9:18 little daughter of a rabbi

LUKE

ACCIDENT

13:4 eighteen men when the Tower of Siloam fell on them

MURDER

13:1 Pilate butchered some Jews from Galilee as they were sacrificing at the Temple in Jerusalem

WAY NOT GIVEN

7:12 the son of a widowed mother in the village of Nain

JOHN

WAY NOT GIVEN

11:14 Lazarus, brother of Mary and Martha

ACTS

ACCIDENT

20:9 Euthchus fell from a window three stories tall

GOD DESTROYED

12:23 King Herod with sickness

MURDERED

7:60 Stephen, stoned to death

12:2 James, John's brother, killed by King Herod

ILLNESS

9:37 Dorcas, a woman in the city of Joppa

WAY NOT GIVEN

5:5 Ananias fell to the floor for lying about the amount money he sold land for

5:10 Ananias's wife fell to the floor for lying about the amount money Ananias sold land for

5:36 Theudas for pretending to be someone great

5:37 Judas of Galilee