How many suicides are recorded in the Bible?

7
http://www.didyouknow.cd/fastfacts/religion.htm

Seven suicides plus one attempted suicide.
Abimelech (Judges 9:54) - Dying of a skull fracture during a siege ordered his armour-bearer to slay him.

Samson (Judges 16:26-31) - Killed himself to avoid being 'made sport of' by the Philistines.

Saul (1Samuel 31:3-6) - Wounded and defeated in the battle with the Philistines, asked his armour-bear to kill him. When he refused, Saul fell on his own sword. The armour-bearer did likewise.

Ahithophel (2Samuel 17:1,23) - Plotted to overthrow David. When his plan failed, he hanged himself.

Zimri (1 Kings 16:18) - Usurped the throne of {Israel;} when he failed, he burned down the palace around himself.

Judas Iscariot (Matthew 27:4-5) - Hung himself after betraying Jesus.

Attempted suicide-The jailer at Philippi (Acts 16:26-29)- Under the mistaken belief that all his prisoners had escaped during an earthquake, thought that his career and life were in jeopardy and prepared to fall on his sword. Paul stopped him.


https://bible.org/illustration/seven-suicides-bible

Seven, and one attempted one.

https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/people/related-articles/suicide-in-the-bible.aspx

There are seven suicides and one attempted suicide reported in the Bible.
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Thanks for the article whee, however the idea that Christ himself committed suicide is debatable:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2934092?seq=1

I don't think Christ's death can clearly be called a suicide.

Apparently there are seven:

I. ABIMELECH—JUDGES 9:54
II. SAMSON—JUDGES 16:28-31
III. SAUL -- 1 SAMUEL 31:1-6
IV. SAUL’S ARMOURBEARER -- 1 SAMUEL 31:1-6
V. AHITHOPHEL -- 2 SAMUEL 17:23
VI. ZIMRI -- 1 KINGS 16:18
VII. JUDAS—MATTHEW 27:5

https://bible.org/illustration/seven-suicides-bible

One could consider Genesis 19:26 a suicide.

The intentional and deliberate committing of an act that one knows is fatally perilous.

Genesis 19:17 ...After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed."

Genesis 19:26 At that point Lot's wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar of salt.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019;&version=78;

Biblically Christ could not have committed suicide. His sole purpose in creation was to die even though he could have saved himself.

As far as volition is concerned, this is a clear cut case of suicide.

Lot's wife did not know precisely what would happen if she'd turned around. She did not wish to die. Thus what happened to her was not suicide.

There are also several accounts of Saul's death, one in which he commits suicide himself, another in which his suicide is assisted by a servant, and another still claiming him as a casualty of war (in Chronicles).

In all but two of these biblical accounts, the person commiting suicide clearly did not have a long time left to live and chose to die at his own hand rather than be killed by an enemy.