How many animals has God killed?

And the Spirit of God came upon Saul ... And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers. 1 Samuel 11:6-7

Too many to count, that's for sure.

How many animals did God drown in the flood? How many were sacrificed to him just so he could smell the sweet savor of their burning flesh?

Not even God knows that. He lost count long ago.

So I'll just list the times that God killed or commanded others to kill animals. (I wonder how many of these passages are marked green in the world's most dishonest book: The Green Bible*.)

1. Abel's offering: The first God-approved animal sacrifice

   And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering. (Genesis 4:4)

2. The flood of Noah: God kills every animal except those in the ark (because "The earth was filled with violence.")

   And all flesh died that moved upon the earth ... All in whose nostrils was the breath of life ... they were destroyed from the earth. (Genesis 7:21-23)

3. After God drowns all the animals except for those in the ark, Noah killed and sacrificed to God one of every surviving "clean" animal species. "And the Lord smelled a sweet savour." (This shows God's concern for endangered species.)

   And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour. (Genesis 8:20-21)

4. God has Abram kill some animals for him: A cow, goat, ram, dove, and pigeon.

   Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst. (Genesis 15:9)

5. God told Abraham to kill his son, but at the last moment, he changed his mind and told Abe to kill a ram for him instead.

   Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. (Genesis 22:10-13)

6. To impress the Pharaoh, God turns the Nile into blood, killing all the fish. (It didn't work. The magicians of Egypt knew this trick, too.)

   And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river ... And the fish that was in the river died. (Exodus 7:18-21)

7. God kills all the cattle, horses, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep in Egypt.

   the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain ... And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died. (Exodus 9:3-6)

8. God kills the (already dead) beasts of Egypt by smashing them with hail.

   And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. (Exodus 9:25)

9. God kills all the firstborn (twice-dead) Egyptian cattle. (I don't know how God figured out which were firstborn, but, hey, that's why he's God, right?)

   at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. (Exodus 12:29)

10. God drowns more than 600 horses.

    And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt ... For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them. (Exodus 14:7; 15:1, 19)

11. "And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people."

    [Moses] offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar ... And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people. (Exodus 24:5)

12. Moses kills a bullock for God

    Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger. (Leviticus 8:14-15)

13. Aaron kills a ram "and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about."

    Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. (Leviticus 8:18-21)

14. Aaron kills another ram and "Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot."

    Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. And he slew it,; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. (Leviticus 8:22-24)

15. Aaron kills a calf for a sin offering "and he dipped his finger in the blood."

    Aaron ... slew the calf of the sin offering ... And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar: (Leviticus 9:8-9)

16. Aaron kills the burnt offering "and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar."

    And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar. (Leviticus 9:12-14)

17. Aaron kills a bullock for a wave offering. "And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD."

    He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about ... And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded. (Leviticus 9:18-21)

18. Killing more animals to satisfy a blood-thirsty god.

    He shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest ... and the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. (Numbers 6:10-20)

19. When Moses set up the tabernacle, each of the twelve tribes kills a bullock, lamb, ram, and a kid, two oxen, and five rams, goats, and lambs for God, for a grand total of 240 animal sacrifices. (Numbers 7:15-88)

20. The Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering." (Numbers 8:8-12)

21. God commands Joshua to kill every animal in Jericho (because they are "accursed" to the Lord.)

    And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD. ... And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. (Joshua 6:17-21)

22. God tells the Israelites to stone and burn to death Achan's animals (along with Achan and his family, of course).

    And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan ... and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep ... 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. (Joshua 7:24-25)

23. More burned offerings to the Lord.

    As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded ... they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. (Joshua 8:31)

24. The spitit of the Lord came on Samson (and he killed a lion).

    Then went Samson down ... and, behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid. (Judges14:5-8)

25. The Spirit of God comes on Saul (and he hacks a yoke of oxen to death and sends the pieces throughout Israel).

    And the Spirit of God came upon Saul ... And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers.(1 Samuel 11:6-7)

26. God was angry at Saul for not killing all the Amalekite animals. Saul killed all the people (except Agag), but he kept some of their animals. Because he didn't kill everything, God repented of choosing him for king. (So he made David king instead. David liked to kill things.)

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts ... Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. ... And Saul smote the Amalekites ... Andand utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword ... But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs ... but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. ... Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. (1 Samuel 15:2-19)

27. When dedicating the temple, Solomon killed so many animals that it was impossible to number them. (Not even God knows how many animals were killed.)

    King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.(1 Kings 8:5)

28. Just kidding -- God knows. It was 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep.

    And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. (1 Kings 8:63, 2 Chronicles 7:5)

29. To make God happy, the Israelites killed 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep (and all the non-believers).

    And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. ... That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.(2 Chronicles 15:11-13)

30. Seven bullocks, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven he-goats were killed, and their blood sprinkled around. Then the carcasses were burned and they sang "the song of the Lord."

    And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering ... So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering ... And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. ... And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began.(2 Chronicles 29:21-27)

31. God and Satan not only killed Job's 10 children, they also killed his servants (I need to revise their kill numbers!) and burned to death his sheep.

    While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them (Job 1:16)

32. Jesus drowns a herd of devil-possessed pigs.

    And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs ... And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? ... And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. (Matthew 8:28-32)

33. Jesus drowns 2000 pigs, after driving them out of a possessed man. (Notice that the other story says there were 2 men. So I guess Jesus must have done this nasty trick twice -- or maybe the stories were just made up.)

    And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit ... And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? ... And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine ... And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. (Mark 5:2-13)

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* I went back to the library to check on this. It turns out that 5 of the passages on the list are marked green in the Green Bible. Here they are, along with their comment for each.

1. Green Bible: "The stability of creation"

   (God drowned his creation and Noah sacrificed some of the few animals that survived; this shows how much God values the stability of his creation?)

   And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour. (Genesis 8:20-21)

2. Green Bible: "Polluted river was a plague of Egypt."

   (Yes, but who sent the plague? This should be marked red, not green.)

   And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river ... And the fish that was in the river died. (Exodus 7:18-21)

3. Green Bible: "The fifth plague: livestock diseased"

   (God killed all the horses, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep. What excuse could there be for marking this green?)

   the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain ... And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died. (Exodus 9:3-6)

4. Green Bible: "The seventh plague: thunder and lightening"

   (God smashes animals and people with hail. This shows his concern for the environment?)

   And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. (Exodus 9:25)

5. Green Bible: "Jesus sends demons into a herd of swine."

   (Yes he did. Kind of nasty, don't you think? I guess it was marked green because it had pigs and water in it.)

   And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs ... And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? ... And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. (Matthew 8:28-32)

How many has God killed?

I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42

See the complete list here.

Who has killed more, Satan or God?

And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Job 1:1-19

Since I revised the number on God's kill list, I also have to change the God vs. Satan killing contest results. So here it is.

In a previous post, I counted the number of people that were killed by God in the Bible. I came up with 2,476,633, which, of course, greatly underestimates God's total death toll, since it only includes those killings for which specific numbers are given. No attempt was made to include the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc., with which the good book is filled. Still, 2 million is a respectable number even for world class killers.

But how does this compare with Satan? How many did he kill in the Bible?

Well I can only find ten, and even these he shares with God, since God allowed him to do it as a part of a bet. I'm talking about the seven sons and three daughters of Job.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job ... And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
...
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD ... put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
...
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house...And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. -- Job 1:1-19

So it seems that both Satan and God share the blame (or the credit) for these killings. If so, then the tally would be:

	killings
God	2,476,633
Satan	10

No contest.

Update
I've tried to assign numbers to the un-numbered killings in the Bible. You can see the detailed list here.

The results were even more lopsided: 25 million (plus or minus a few million) for God; 60 for Satan.

Here is a more complete table.

	numbered killings	estimated total killings
God	2,476,633	25 million
Satan	10	60

How many has God killed?

I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42

How many people did God kill in the Bible?

It's impossible to say for sure, but plenty. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? There's just no way to count them all. (But see here for a rough estimate.)

But sometimes the Bible tells us exactly how many were killed by God. Here's a list of those that I can find. (If you find any that I've missed, let me know and I'll add them to the list.)

So far I come up with a total of 2,316,428 (not including, at least in some cases, women and children).

		Verse	Number killed	Cumulative total
1	God drowns everyone of earth (except Noah and his family)	Genesis 7:23	?	?
2	God rains fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, killing everyone.	Genesis 19:24	?	?
3	Lot's wife for looking back	Genesis 19:26	1	1
4	Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord"	Genesis 38:7, 1 Chronicles 2:3	1	2
5	Onan for spilling his seed	Genesis 38:10	1	3
6	A 7 year, world-wide famine	Genesis 41:25-54	?	3
7	7th Egyptian Plague: Hail	Exodus 9:25	?	3
8	God kills every Egyptian firstborn child.	Exodus 12:29-30	?	3
9	God drowns Egyptian army	Exodus 14:8-26	600	603
10	God and Moses help Joshua kill the Amalekites	Exodus 17:13	?	603
11	Israelites for dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf	Exodus 32:27-28, 35	3000	3,603
12	God plagued the people because of the calf that Aaron made	Exodus 32:35	?	3,603
13	Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord	Leviticus 10:1-3; Numbers 3:4, 26:61	2	3,605
14	A blasphemer	Leviticus 24:10-23	1	3,606
15	God burned people to death for complaining	Numbers 11:1	?	3,606
16	God sent "a very great plague" for complaining about the food.	Numbers 11:33	?	3,606
17	God killed ten scouts with a plague.	Numbers 14:35-36	10	3,616
18	A man who gathered firewood on the sabbath	Numbers 15:32-36	1	3,617
19	Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families)	Numbers 16:27	3	3,620
20	Burned to death for offering incense	Numbers 16:35	250	3,870
21	For complaining	Numbers 16:49	14,700	18,570
22	Massacre of the Aradites	Numbers 21:1-3	?	18,570
23	For complaining about the lack of food and water, God sent fiery serpents to bite the people.	Numbers 21:6	?	18,570
24	God delivers the Bashanites into Moses' hands and Moses kills everyone "until there was none left alive."	Numbers 21:34-35	?	18,570
25	Phinehas impales a mixed-race couple having sex	Numbers 25:6-8	2	18,572
26	Israelites for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab"	Numbers 25:9	24,000	42,572
27	Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive)	Numbers 31:1-35	?	42,572
28	God kills the entire Israelite army	Deuteronomy 2:14-16	?	42,572
29	The slaughter of the Zamzummim, Horim, Avim, and the Caphtorim	Deuteronomy 2:21-22	?	42,572
30	God hardened the king of Heshbon's heart so that the Israelites could massacre his people. (included several cities)	Deuteronomy 2:33-34	?	42,572
31	All the men, women, and children in 60 cities	Deuteronomy 3:3-6	?	42,572
32	Massacre of Jericho	Joshua 6:21	?	42,572
33	Achan (and his his sons and daughters) for taking the accursed thing	Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26	1	42,573
34	The Ai Massacre	Joshua 8:1-25	12,000	54,573
35	God slaughters the Amorites and even chases them "along the way" as they try to escape.	Joshua 10:10-11	?	54,573
36	Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees	Joshua 10:24-26	5	54,578
37	Massacre of 7 kingdoms	Joshua 10:28-42	?	54,578
38	The remaining kingdoms	Joshua 11:8-12	10,000	64,578
39	Massacre of the Anakim	Joshua 11:20-21	?	64,578
40	God delivers the Canaanites and Perizzites	Judges 1:4	?	64,578
41	The Jerusalem Massacre	Judges 1:8	?	64,578
42	Ten Massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots	Judges 1:9-25	?	64,578
43	The LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim	Judges 3:7-10	?	64,578
44	Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife in the belly	Judges 3:15-22	1	64,579
45	God delivers 10,000 Moabites	Judges 3:28-29	10,000	74,579
46	Barak and God Massacre the Canaanites	Judges 4:14	?	74,579
47	Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's head	Judges 4:18-25	1	74,580
48	God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other	Judges 7:22, 8:10	120,000	194,580
49	A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit	Judges 9:23-57	?	194,580
50	The Ammonite massacre	Judges 11:29-33	?	194,580
51	Jephthah's daughter	Judges 11:34-39	1	194,581
52	The spirit of the Lord comes on Samson and he murders 30 men for their clothes	Judges 14:19	30	194,611
53	The Spirit of the Lord comes upon Samson and he kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass	Judges 15:14-15	1,000	195,611
54	Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism	Judges 16:27-30	3,000	198,611
55	"The Lord smote Benjamin"	Judges 20:35-37	65,100	263,711
56	God kills Eli's sons	1 Samuel 2:25, 34; 4:11	2	263,713
57	God smote three cities with hemorrhoids in their secret parts	1 Samuel 5:1-12	?	263,713
58	For looking into the ark of the Lord	1 Samuel 6:19	50,070	313,783
59	The LORD thundered with a great thunder upon the Philistines	1 Samuel 7:	?	313,783
60	The Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired body part message)	1 Samuel 7:11-13	?	313,783
61	Jonathan's very first slaughter (not counting the one before)	1 Samuel 14:12	20	313,803
62	God forces the Philistine soldiers to kill each other.	1 Samuel 14:20	?	313,803
63	The Amalekite Genocide	1 Samuel 15:2-3	?	313,803
64	Samuel hacks Agag to pieces before the Lord	1 Samuel 15:32-33	1	313,804
65	God delivers the Philistines.	1 Samuel 23:2-5	?	313,804
66	"The Lord smote Nabal."	1 Samuel 25:38	1	313,805
67	David spends the day killing Amalekites	1 Samuel 30:17	?	313,805
68	God has the Philistines kill Israelite soldiers	1 Samuel 31:6, 1 Chronicles 10:6	?	313,805
69	Saul and his three sons	1 Samuel 31:6, 1 Chronicles 10:6	4	313,809
70	God delivers the Philistines to David (from the front)	2 Samuel 5:19, 25	?	313,809
71	God delivers the Philistines to David (from behind)	2 Samuel 5:19, 25	?	313,809
72	Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling	2 Samuel 6:6-7, 1 Chronicles 13:9-10	1	313,810
73	David and Bathsheba's baby boy	2 Samuel 12:14-18	1	313,811
74	God sent a three-year famine because of something Saul did.	2 Samuel 21:1	?	313,811
75	Saul's two sons and five grandsons hung up before the Lord	2 Samuel 21:6-9	7	313,818
76	God kills 70,000 men because David did a census that God told him to do	2 Samuel 24:15, 1 Chronicles 21:14	70,000	383,818
77	A lion is sent by God to kill a prophet for believing another prophet's lie	1 Kings 13:1-24	1	383,818
78	Jeroboam's son	1 Kings 14:17	1	383,820
79	Jeroboam's family	1 Kings 15:29	?	383,820
80	Baasha's family and friends	1 Kings 16:11-12	?	383,820
81	The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians	1 Kings 20:20-21		383,820
82	God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a God of the hills	1 Kings 20:28-29	100,000	483,820
83	God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers	1 Kings 20:30	27,000	510,820
84	God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet	1 Kings 20:35-36	1	510,821
85	Ahab for not killing a captured king	1 Kings 20:42, 22:35	1	510,822
86	51 men are burned to death by God for asking Elijah to come down from his hill	2 Kings 1:10	51	510,873
87	Another 51 men are burned to death by God for asking Elijah to come down from his hill	2 Kings 1:12	51	510,924
88	Ahaziah is killed for asking the wrong god	2 Kings 1:2-4, 17; 2 Chronicles 22:7-9	1	510,925
89	God sent two bears to kill 42 children for making fun of Elisha's bald head	2 Kings 2:23-24	42	510,967
90	God delivers the Moabites	2 Kings 3:18-25	?	510,967
91	God calls for a seven year famine.	2 Kings 8:1	?	510,967
92	Jehoram of Israel	2 Kings 9:24	1	510,968
93	Jezebel	2 Kings 9:33-37	1	510,969
94	Ahab's 70 sons	2 Kings 10:6-10	70	511,039
95	Ahab's hometown family and friends	2 Kings 10:11	?	511,039
96	Ahab's family in Samaria	2 Kings 10:17	?	511,039
97	God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners for not fearing him enough	2 Kings 17:25-26	?	511,039
98	Sleeping Assyrian soldiers	2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:36	185,000	696,039
99	God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons	2 Kings 19:37	1	696,040
100	Just another holy war	1 Chronicles 5:18-22	?	696,040
101	God killed a half million Israelite soldiers	2 Chronicles 13:15-17	500,000	1,196,040
102	Jeroboam	2 Chronicles 13:20	1	1,196,041
103	The Lord smote the Ethiopians.	2 Chronicles 14:9-14	1,000,000	2,196,041
104	Everyone helped to destroy each other	2 Chronicles 20:22-25	?	2,196,041
105	God kills Jehoram of Judah by making his bowels fall out	2 Chronicles 21:14-19	1	2,196,042
106	God kills Jehoram's sons	2 Chronicles 22:1	?	2,196,042
107	Joash, the princes of Judah, and the Judean army	2 Chronicles 24:20-25	?	2,196,042
108	God destroys Amaziah	2 Chronicles 25:20-22	?	2,196,042
109	God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Syria	2 Chronicles 28:5	?	2,196,042
110	120,000 soldiers killed for forsaking God	2 Chronicles 28:6	120,000	2,316,042
111	God delivered the Israelites into the hand of the Chaldeans.	2 Chronicles 36:16-17	?	2,316,042
112	God and Satan kill Job's children and servants	Job 1:1-19	10	2,316,052
113	Ezekiel's wife	Ezekiel 24:15-18	1	2,316,053
114	Ananias and Sapphira	Acts 5:1-10	2	2,316,055
115	Herod	Acts 12:23	1	2,316,056
116	Jesus	Eph 5:2, Heb 10:10, 1 Pet 1:19-20, Rev 13:8	1	2,316,057

The worst book in the Bible

Okay, this won't be as easy. There are only three books in the bible that have more good stuff than bad (Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and James), so the best book had to be one of them. Ecclesiastes won that contest hands down.

But what about the other 63 books in the Bible? Well, let's start with a scatterplot of the net good by the number of verses in each of the Bible's books.

There are three books that fall well below the line: Revelation, Deuteronomy, and Jeremiah. But which of these is the worst?

It might help to separate the Old and New Testaments.

And here's a plot of the netgood by number of verses in the New Testament books.

So at least we know the worst book in the New Testament. Revelation.

Now back to the Old Testament.

There they are again: Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. But it's hard to tell from the graph which is worse.

It might help to look at the net bad on a percentage basis. How many net bad verses are there in 100 verses? Here's a plot for just the three worst books.

So it looks like Revelation wins the prize.

[I should mention, though, that there are a few small Old Testament books that have even higher percent net bads. Zephaniah, Obadiah, and Amos have net bad percents of 54.7, 42.9, and 40.4, respectively. (These three were the low outliers in the last plot of the previous post.) But they are much smaller than the big three bad books -- Revelation, Deuteronomy, and Jeremiah.]