God sent Shishak, the king of Egypt, to attack Jerusalem because Rehoboam "and all Israel trangressed against the Lord."
Shishak had 1200 chariots, 60,000 horsement and "people without number" and he attacked Judah and "took the fenced cities which
pertained to Judah." When Shishak's army came to Jerusalem, "the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves" and said,
"The Lord is righteous." So God decided not to destroy Jerusalem, but just make them Shishak's slaves instead.
12:2-12
God kills the king of Israel and helps Abijah kill 500,000 Israelites. "The children of Judah prevailed,
because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers." (That is, they had God on their side.)
13:15-20
In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa, with God's help, kills one million Ethiopians.
14:8-14
"Nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all
adversity." 15:6
Whoever that does not seek the God of Israel should be executed. 15:13
God puts lies into the mouths of his prophets and speaks evil about people.
18:21-22
"A certain man drew a bow ... and smote the king of Israel ... and about the time of the sun going down he died."
God killed Ahab for showing mercy to king Benhadad. (See 1 Kings 20:42)
18:33-34
Hate the sinner -- or God will pour his wrath out on you. 19:2
Elijah tells Jehoram that God will smite his children, wives, and the people of Judah with a
great plague (for things that Jehoram did) and God will smite him with a disease of his bowels until
his bowels fall out. 21:14-15
The LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians ...
And they came up into Judah, and ... and carried away ... his sons also, and his wives; so that there
was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons." 21:16-17
"And after all this the LORD smote him in his
bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels
fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases." 21:18-19
God appoved of Jehu's massacre of the families of Ahab and Ahaziah. 22:7-9
Only Levites can enter "the house of the Lord". "Whosoever else cometh
into the house, he shall be put to death." 23:6-7
The priest (Jehoiada) tells the people to kill Athaliah and her followers. So they find her and kill
her. "And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after
that they had slain Athaliah with the sword." (Don't you just love happy endings?)
23:14-15, 21
"Then all the people went to the house of Baal" and broke its altar into pieces
and killed Mattan the priest of Baal. 23:17
Joash and Jehoida collect tons of money to repair "the house of the Lord." Religious
leaders have been taking money from people ever since. 24:4-11
The spirit of God came upon Zechariah and he condemned everyone for disobeying God, so the people stoned him to death.
As he was dying, Zechariah asked God to avenge his death. So God sent the Syrians to kill all the princes and God delivered
the army of Judah into their hand. In the process, Joash was wounded and then killed in his bed. 24:20-25
Amaziah (who "did that which was right in the sight of the Lord") killed 10,000 people; another
10,000 he left alive to throw off a cliff "that they all were broken in pieces."
25:1-2, 11-12
God makes Uzziah a leper for burning incense without a license. 26:19-21
Pekah killed 120,000 people in one day and enslaves 200,000 women and children
"because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers." 28:6, 8
God sent an angel to kill the Assyrian army. (According to
2 Kg.19:35 the angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers who
woke the next morning to discover that they were dead.) 32:21
God vows to "bring evil upon this place ... even all the curses that are written in the book." He says his
"wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." 34:24-25, 28
God gets angry with his people, so he sends the king of the Chaldees to kill all the "young men with the
sword." He has compassion for no one, not even old men that are "stooped for age." In his tender mercy and loving
kindness he has them all slaughtered. 36:16-17