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let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand. 2.30
    And God’s plan worked perfectly. After God hardened King Sihon’s heart, he refused to let the Israelites pass and fought to protect his land. Which gave God and the Israelites all the excuse they needed to kill the king along with every man, woman, and child in every city in the kingdom.
    And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain. … There was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us. 2.33-36
    Sometimes God has to harden a heart in order to kill thousands of people.
    Since everyone in every city was killed, and there seemed to be quite a few, I guessed 1000 were killed from each of five cities, for a total of 5000.

30. All the men, women, and children in 60 cities
    Deuteronomy 3.3-6, Numbers 21.33-35
    Estimated Number Killed: 60,000
    Og and the people of Bashan
    I suppose I could call this God’s 30th to 89th killings, since there must have been 60 separate killing events. If God did the killing himself, he could have done it all at once. But he was relying on people to do his killing for him, so it must have taken some time. First the Israelites had to go to city 1 and kill all the men, women, and children that lived there, then on to city 2, and so on up to the 60th city. But since the Bible lumps all 60 killings together, I will too.
    The Bible doesn’t spend a lot of time on these killings. Only 4 verses.
    So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. … And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. Deuteronomy 3.3-6
    (The story is also told in Numbers 21.33-35)
    Although God is proud of all of his killings, he is especially proud of killing King Og and his people, since they were the last of the giants. Og, for example, had a bed that was 13.5 feet long!
    For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead … nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 3.11
    Here’s what Moses says when he’s encouraging Joshua to carry on God’s killing tradition.
    Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you … For what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 3.21-24
    And Moses has a point here. What other god has killed as many as the God of the Bible?
    (Since the Israelites killed everyone in 60 cities, I put the death toll at 60,000.)

31. The Jericho massacre
    Joshua 6.21
    Estimated Number Killed: 1,000
    The people of Jericho
    Jericho is one of God’s more famous killings. And believers seem to like it a lot. They sing songs about it, and tell their children about it.
    Here’s how it goes.
    God tells Joshua that he has given the city of Jericho into his hands and that he and his men should march around the city every day for six days with seven priests marching before the ark blowing seven trumpets made of rams’ horns.
    The LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark