Passages In The Bible Containing The Word: DESTROY

This is a list of passages in the Bible containing the word, “destroy.” When you read these, ask yourself how many of them sound perfectly wise, like some God would write, and how many sound more like a bunch of primitive tribesmen projecting their customs, values, and goals into an apparently barbaric ancient mythology. The Jewish culture didn’t just slightly influence the teachings in The Bible. It’s the manifesto of Jewish culture, and taken on a whole, it paints a clear picture of a tribal theocracy using violence to subdue its citizens and neighbors.

I challenge you to look up the context of these quotes on Bible Gateway.com or listen to the full chapters on YouTube. In most cases, you’ll either find a longer trainwreck of barbarism or at least more inapplicable, culturally-relative values, customs, and beliefs.

The number of absurd verses in the Bible point to the fact that, on a whole, by anybody’s standards, it’s not divine. Put yourself to the test. The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible made a list of every commandment in the Bible, titled “Every Jot And Tittle.” If you go through them and check which ones you agree with and practice, you’re going to pass over more than you tick. Nobody follows the majority of the Bible’s teachings because most of it is either immoral or archaic.

You may find some passages in the list below that sound positive and teach useful information, but you’ll find more that contradict the good ones. The Bible gets more wrong than it gets right, and you shouldn’t revere a broken clock for stating the obvious twice a day.

 

Genesis 6:13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to DESTROY both them and the earth.

 

Genesis 6:17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to DESTROY all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

 

Genesis 8:21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I DESTROY all living creatures, as I have done.

 

Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be DESTROYED by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to DESTROY the earth.”

 

Genesis 9:15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to DESTROY all life.

 

Genesis 13:10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord DESTROYED Sodom and Gomorrah.)

 

Genesis 18:28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you DESTROY the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not DESTROY it.”

 

Genesis 18:31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not DESTROY it.”

 

Genesis 18:32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not DESTROY it.”

 

Genesis 19:13 because we are going to DESTROY this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to DESTROY it.”

 

Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to DESTROY the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

 

Genesis 19:25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, DESTROYING all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

 

Genesis 19:29 So when God DESTROYED the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

 

Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you DESTROY an innocent nation?

 

Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be DESTROYED.”

 

Exodus 9:31 (The flax and barley were DESTROYED, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.

 

Exodus 9:32 The wheat and spelt, however, were not DESTROYED, because they ripen later.)

 

Exodus 12:23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the DESTROYER to enter your houses and strike you down.

 

Exodus 15:9 The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will DESTROY them.’

 

Exodus 21:26 “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and DESTROYS it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

 

Exodus 22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be DESTROYED.

 

Exodus 32:10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may DESTROY them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

 

Exodus 33:3 Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might DESTROY you on the way.”

 

Exodus 33:5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might DESTROY you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.’”

 

Leviticus 10:6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the Lord will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the Lord has DESTROYED by fire.

 

Leviticus 23:30 I will DESTROY from among their people anyone who does any work on that day.

 

Leviticus 26:16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will DESTROY your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

 

Leviticus 26:22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, DESTROY your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

 

Leviticus 26:30 I will DESTROY your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.

 

Leviticus 26:44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to DESTROY them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God.

 

Numbers 4:18 “See that the Kohathite tribal clans are not DESTROYED from among the Levites.

 

Numbers 14:12 I will strike them down with a plague and DESTROY them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”

 

Numbers 21:1 [ Arad DESTROYED ] When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.

 

Numbers 21:2 Then Israel made this vow to the Lord: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally DESTROY their cities.”

 

Numbers 21:3 The Lord listened to Israel’s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely DESTROYED them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.

 

Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, Moab! You are DESTROYED, people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters as captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.

 

Numbers 21:30 “But we have overthrown them; Heshbon’s dominion has been DESTROYED all the way to Dibon. We have demolished them as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba.”

 

Numbers 24:19 A ruler will come out of Jacob and DESTROY the survivors of the city.”

 

Numbers 24:22 yet you Kenites will be DESTROYED when Ashur takes you captive.”

 

Numbers 33:52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. DESTROY all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

 

Deuteronomy 1:27 You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to DESTROY us.

 

Deuteronomy 2:12 Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They DESTROYED the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)

 

Deuteronomy 2:21 They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The Lord DESTROYED them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

 

Deuteronomy 2:22 The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he DESTROYED the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

 

Deuteronomy 2:23 And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor DESTROYED them and settled in their place.)

 

Deuteronomy 2:34 At that time we took all his towns and completely DESTROYED them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.

 

Deuteronomy 3:6 We completely DESTROYED them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, DESTROYING every city—men, women and children.

 

Deuteronomy 4:3 You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God DESTROYED from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

 

Deuteronomy 4:26 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be DESTROYED.

 

Deuteronomy 4:31 For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or DESTROY you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

 

Deuteronomy 6:15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will DESTROY you from the face of the land.

 

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must DESTROY them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

 

Deuteronomy 7:4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly DESTROY you.

 

Deuteronomy 7:16 You must DESTROY all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

 

Deuteronomy 7:23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are DESTROYED.

 

Deuteronomy 7:24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will DESTROY them.

 

Deuteronomy 8:19 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be DESTROYED.

 

Deuteronomy 8:20 Like the nations the Lord DESTROYED before you, so you will be DESTROYED for not obeying the Lord your God.

 

Deuteronomy 9:3 But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will DESTROY them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

 

Deuteronomy 9:8 At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath so that he was angry enough to DESTROY you.

 

Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, so that I may DESTROY them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

 

Deuteronomy 9:19 I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to DESTROY you. But again the Lord listened to me.

 

Deuteronomy 9:20 And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to DESTROY him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too.

 

Deuteronomy 9:25 I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would DESTROY you.

 

Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord, do not DESTROY your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

 

Deuteronomy 10:10 Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to DESTROY you.

 

Deuteronomy 12:2DESTROY completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

 

Deuteronomy 12:30 and after they have been DESTROYED before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”

 

Deuteronomy 13:15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must DESTROY it completely, both its people and its livestock.

 

Deuteronomy 19:1 [ Cities of Refuge ] When the Lord your God has DESTROYED the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,

 

Deuteronomy 20:17 Completely DESTROY them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.

 

Deuteronomy 20:19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not DESTROY its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?

 

Deuteronomy 28:20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are DESTROYED and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

 

Deuteronomy 28:21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has DESTROYED you from the land you are entering to possess.

 

Deuteronomy 28:24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are DESTROYED.

 

Deuteronomy 28:45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are DESTROYED, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

 

Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has DESTROYED you.

 

Deuteronomy 28:51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are DESTROYED. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

 

Deuteronomy 28:61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are DESTROYED.

 

Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and DESTROY you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

 

Deuteronomy 30:18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be DESTROYED. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

 

Deuteronomy 31:3 The Lord your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will DESTROY these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the Lord said.

 

Deuteronomy 31:4 And the Lord will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he DESTROYED along with their land.

 

Deuteronomy 31:17 And in that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be DESTROYED. Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’

 

Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘DESTROY them!’

 

Joshua 2:10 We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely DESTROYED.

 

Joshua 6:21 They devoted the city to the Lord and DESTROYED with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

 

Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord, why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to DESTROY us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

 

Joshua 7:12 That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you DESTROY whatever among you is devoted to destruction.

 

Joshua 7:15 Whoever is caught with the devoted things shall be DESTROYED by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!’”

 

Joshua 8:1 [ Ai DESTROYED ] Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.

 

Joshua 8:26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had DESTROYED all who lived in Ai.

 

Joshua 10:1 [ The Sun Stands Still ] Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally DESTROYED it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and had become their allies.

 

Joshua 10:28 [ Southern Cities Conquered ] That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally DESTROYED everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

 

Joshua 10:35 They captured it that same day and put it to the sword and totally DESTROYED everyone in it, just as they had done to Lachish.

 

Joshua 10:37 They took the city and put it to the sword, together with its king, its villages and everyone in it. They left no survivors. Just as at Eglon, they totally DESTROYED it and everyone in it.

 

Joshua 10:39 They took the city, its king and its villages, and put them to the sword. Everyone in it they totally DESTROYED. They left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

 

Joshua 10:40 So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally DESTROYED all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.

 

Joshua 11:11 Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally DESTROYED them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.

 

Joshua 11:12 Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally DESTROYED them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.

 

Joshua 11:14 The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely DESTROYED them, not sparing anyone that breathed.

 

Joshua 11:20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might DESTROY them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

 

Joshua 11:21 At that time Joshua went and DESTROYED the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally DESTROYED them and their towns.

 

Joshua 23:15 But just as all the good things the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the Lord your God has DESTROYED you from this good land he has given you.

 

Joshua 24:8 “‘I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I DESTROYED them from before you, and you took possession of their land.

 

Judges 1:17 Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally DESTROYED the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.

 

Judges 4:24 And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they DESTROYED him.

 

Judges 9:45 All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he DESTROYED the city and scattered salt over it.

 

Judges 21:16 And the elders of the assembly said, “With the women of Benjamin DESTROYED, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?

 

1 Samuel 2:33 Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to DESTROY your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.

 

1 Samuel 6:5 Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are DESTROYING the country, and give glory to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land.

 

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally DESTROY all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

 

1 Samuel 15:6 Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not DESTROY you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

 

1 Samuel 15:8 He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally DESTROYED with the sword.

 

1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to DESTROY completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally DESTROYED.

 

1 Samuel 15:15 Saul answered, “The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but we totally DESTROYED the rest.”

 

1 Samuel 15:18 And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely DESTROY those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.’

 

1 Samuel 15:20 “But I did obey the Lord,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely DESTROYED the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.

 

1 Samuel 23:10 David said, “Lord, God of Israel, your servant has heard definitely that Saul plans to come to Keilah and DESTROY the town on account of me.

 

1 Samuel 26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t DESTROY him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?

 

1 Samuel 26:15 David said, “You’re a man, aren’t you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn’t you guard your lord the king? Someone came to DESTROY your lord the king.

 

1 Samuel 27:1 [ David Among the Philistines ] But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be DESTROYED by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

 

1 Samuel 30:1 [ David DESTROYS the Amalekites ] David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,

 

1 Samuel 30:3 When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it DESTROYED by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

 

2 Samuel 1:14 David asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to DESTROY the Lord’s anointed?”

 

2 Samuel 11:1 [ David and Bathsheba ] In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They DESTROYED the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

 

2 Samuel 11:25 David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and DESTROY it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”

 

2 Samuel 14:11 She said, “Then let the king invoke the Lord his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be DESTROYED.” “As surely as the Lord lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

 

2 Samuel 20:19 We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to DESTROY a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”

 

2 Samuel 20:20 “Far be it from me!” Joab replied, “Far be it from me to swallow up or DESTROY!

 

2 Samuel 21:5 They answered the king, “As for the man who DESTROYED us and plotted against us so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel,

 

2 Samuel 22:38 “I pursued my enemies and crushed them; I did not turn back till they were DESTROYED.

 

2 Samuel 22:41 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I DESTROYED my foes.

 

2 Samuel 24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand to DESTROY Jerusalem, the Lord relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

 

1 Kings 11:16 Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had DESTROYED all the men in Edom.

 

1 Kings 11:24 When David DESTROYED Zobah’s army, Rezon gathered a band of men around him and became their leader; they went to Damascus, where they settled and took control.

 

1 Kings 15:29 As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam’s whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but DESTROYED them all, according to the word of the Lord given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

 

1 Kings 16:7 Moreover, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger by the things he did, becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he DESTROYED it.

 

1 Kings 16:12 So Zimri DESTROYED the whole family of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu—

 

1 Kings 22:11 Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, “This is what the Lord says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are DESTROYED.’”

 

2 Kings 3:25 They DESTROYED the towns, and each man threw a stone on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up all the springs and cut down every good tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left with its stones in place, but men armed with slings surrounded it and attacked it.

 

2 Kings 8:19 Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to DESTROY Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

 

2 Kings 9:7 You are to DESTROY the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel.

 

2 Kings 10:17 When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab’s family; he DESTROYED them, according to the word of the Lord spoken to Elijah.

 

2 Kings 10:19 Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to DESTROY the servants of Baal.

 

2 Kings 10:28 So Jehu DESTROYED Baal worship in Israel.

 

2 Kings 11:1 [ Athaliah and Joash ] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to DESTROY the whole royal family.

 

2 Kings 13:7 Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had DESTROYED the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.

 

2 Kings 13:17 “Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely DESTROY the Arameans at Aphek.”

 

2 Kings 13:19 The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely DESTROYED it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”

 

2 Kings 13:23 But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to DESTROY them or banish them from his presence.

 

2 Kings 18:25 Furthermore, have I come to attack and DESTROY this place without word from the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and DESTROY it.’”

 

2 Kings 19:11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, DESTROYING them completely. And will you be delivered?

 

2 Kings 19:12 Did the gods of the nations that were DESTROYED by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

 

2 Kings 19:18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and DESTROYED them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

 

2 Kings 21:3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had DESTROYED; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

 

2 Kings 21:9 But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had DESTROYED before the Israelites.

 

2 Kings 24:2 The Lord sent Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to DESTROY Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.

 

1 Chronicles 4:41 The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely DESTROYED them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

 

1 Chronicles 5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had DESTROYED before them.

 

1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to DESTROY Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was DESTROYING the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

 

2 Chronicles 8:8 Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not DESTROYED—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

 

2 Chronicles 12:7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not DESTROY them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

 

2 Chronicles 12:12 Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally DESTROYED. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.

 

2 Chronicles 14:14 They DESTROYED all the villages around Gerar, for the terror of the Lord had fallen on them. They looted all these villages, since there was much plunder there.

 

2 Chronicles 18:10 Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, “This is what the Lord says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are DESTROYED.’”

 

2 Chronicles 20:10 “But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not DESTROY them.

 

2 Chronicles 20:23 The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to DESTROY and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to DESTROY one another.

 

2 Chronicles 20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will DESTROY what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and were not able to set sail to trade.

 

2 Chronicles 21:7 Nevertheless, because of the covenant the Lord had made with David, the Lord was not willing to DESTROY the house of David. He had promised to maintain a lamp for him and his descendants forever.

 

2 Chronicles 22:7 Through Ahaziah’s visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to DESTROY the house of Ahab.

 

2 Chronicles 22:10 [ Athaliah and Joash ] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to DESTROY the whole royal family of the house of Judah.

 

2 Chronicles 25:16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to DESTROY you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

 

2 Chronicles 31:1 When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They DESTROYED the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had DESTROYED all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.

 

2 Chronicles 32:14 Who of all the gods of these nations that my predecessors DESTROYED has been able to save his people from me? How then can your god deliver you from my hand?

 

2 Chronicles 33:9 But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had DESTROYED before the Israelites.

 

2 Chronicles 35:21 But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, “What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and me? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will DESTROY you.”

 

2 Chronicles 36:19 They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and DESTROYED everything of value there.

 

Ezra 4:15 so that a search may be made in the archives of your predecessors. In these records you will find that this city is a rebellious city, troublesome to kings and provinces, a place with a long history of sedition. That is why this city was DESTROYED.

 

Ezra 5:12 But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who DESTROYED this temple and deported the people to Babylon.

 

Ezra 6:12 May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to DESTROY this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.

 

Ezra 9:14 Shall we then break your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to DESTROY us, leaving us no remnant or survivor?

 

Nehemiah 2:3 but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been DESTROYED by fire?”

 

Nehemiah 2:13 By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been DESTROYED by fire.

 

Esther 3:1 [ Haman’s Plot to DESTROY the Jews ] After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.

 

Esther 3:6 Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to DESTROY all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

 

Esther 3:9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to DESTROY them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”

 

Esther 3:13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to DESTROY, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

 

Esther 7:4 For I and my people have been sold to be DESTROYED, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.”

 

Esther 8:5 “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to DESTROY the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

 

Esther 8:11 The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to DESTROY, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder the property of their enemies.

 

Esther 9:2 The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to DESTROY them. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them.

 

Esther 9:5 The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and DESTROYING them, and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

 

Esther 9:6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and DESTROYED five hundred men.

 

Esther 9:12 The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and DESTROYED five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”

 

Esther 9:24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to DESTROY them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot) for their ruin and destruction.

 

Job 4:7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever DESTROYED?

 

Job 9:22 It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He DESTROYS both the blameless and the wicked.’

 

Job 10:8 “Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and DESTROY me?

 

Job 12:23 He makes nations great, and DESTROYS them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.

 

Job 14:19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you DESTROY a person’s hope.

 

Job 19:26 And after my skin has been DESTROYED, yet in my flesh I will see God;

 

Job 22:20 ‘Surely our foes are DESTROYED, and fire devours their wealth.’

 

Job 30:13 They break up my road; they succeed in DESTROYING me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.

 

Psalm 5:6 you DESTROY those who tell lies. The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, Lord, detest.

 

Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the nations and DESTROYED the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

 

Psalm 11:3 When the foundations are being DESTROYED, what can the righteous do?”

 

Psalm 17:9 from the wicked who are out to DESTROY me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

 

Psalm 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were DESTROYED.

 

Psalm 18:40 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I DESTROYED my foes.

 

Psalm 21:10 You will DESTROY their descendants from the earth, their posterity from mankind.

 

Psalm 37:9 For those who are evil will be DESTROYED, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

 

Psalm 37:22 those the Lord blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be DESTROYED.

 

Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely DESTROYED; the offspring of the wicked will perish.

 

Psalm 37:34 Hope in the Lord and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are DESTROYED, you will see it.

 

Psalm 37:38 But all sinners will be DESTROYED; there will be no future for the wicked.

 

Psalm 48:7 You DESTROYED them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.

 

Psalm 52:7 “Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by DESTROYING others!”

 

Psalm 54:5 Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness DESTROY them.

 

Psalm 57:1 [ Psalm 57 ] [ For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not DESTROY.” Of David. A miktam. When he had fled from Saul into the cave. ] Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

 

Psalm 58:1 [ Psalm 58 ] [ For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not DESTROY.” Of David. A miktam. ] Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?

 

Psalm 59:1 [ Psalm 59 ] [ For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not DESTROY.” Of David. A miktam. When Saul had sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. ] Deliver me from my enemies, O God; be my fortress against those who are attacking me.

 

Psalm 63:9 Those who want to kill me will be DESTROYED; they will go down to the depths of the earth.

 

Psalm 69:4 Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to DESTROY me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

 

Psalm 73:19 How suddenly are they DESTROYED, completely swept away by terrors!

 

Psalm 73:27 Those who are far from you will perish; you DESTROY all who are unfaithful to you.

 

Psalm 74:11 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and DESTROY them!

 

Psalm 75:1 [ Psalm 75 ] [ For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not DESTROY.” A psalm of Asaph. A song. ] We praise you, God, we praise you, for your Name is near; people tell of your wonderful deeds.

 

Psalm 78:38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not DESTROY them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.

 

Psalm 78:47 He DESTROYED their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

 

Psalm 78:49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of DESTROYING angels.

 

Psalm 83:4 “Come,” they say, “let us DESTROY them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

 

Psalm 88:16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have DESTROYED me.

 

Psalm 91:6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that DESTROYS at midday.

 

Psalm 92:7 that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be DESTROYED forever.

 

Psalm 94:23 He will repay them for their sins and DESTROY them for their wickedness; the Lord our God will DESTROY them.

 

Psalm 105:16 He called down famine on the land and DESTROYED all their supplies of food;

 

Psalm 106:23 So he said he would DESTROY them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from DESTROYING them.

 

Psalm 106:34 They did not DESTROY the peoples as the Lord had commanded them,

 

Psalm 119:95 The wicked are waiting to DESTROY me, but I will ponder your statutes.

 

Psalm 143:12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; DESTROY all my foes, for I am your servant.

 

Psalm 145:20 The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will DESTROY.

 

Proverbs 1:32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will DESTROY them;

 

Proverbs 6:15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be DESTROYED—without remedy.

 

Proverbs 6:32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so DESTROYS himself.

 

Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are DESTROYED by their duplicity.

 

Proverbs 11:9 With their mouths the godless DESTROY their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

 

Proverbs 11:11 Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is DESTROYED.

 

Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked will be DESTROYED, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

 

Proverbs 18:9 One who is slack in his work is brother to one who DESTROYS.

 

Proverbs 28:24 Whoever robs their father or mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is partner to one who DESTROYS.

 

Proverbs 29:1 Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be DESTROYED—without remedy.

 

Ecclesiastes 5:6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and DESTROY the work of your hands?

 

Ecclesiastes 7:16 Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise— why DESTROY yourself?

 

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner DESTROYS much good.

 

Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be DESTROYED; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

 

Isaiah 10:7 But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to DESTROY, to put an end to many nations.

 

Isaiah 10:18 The splendor of his forests and fertile fields it will completely DESTROY, as when a sick person wastes away.

 

Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor DESTROY on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

 

Isaiah 11:13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s enemies will be DESTROYED; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.

 

Isaiah 13:5 They come from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the Lord and the weapons of his wrath— to DESTROY the whole country.

 

Isaiah 13:9 See, the day of the Lord is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger— to make the land desolate and DESTROY the sinners within it.

 

Isaiah 14:20 you will not join them in burial, for you have DESTROYED your land and killed your people. Let the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again.

 

Isaiah 14:30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But your root I will DESTROY by famine; it will slay your survivors.

 

Isaiah 15:1 [ A Prophecy Against Moab ] A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, DESTROYED in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, DESTROYED in a night!

 

Isaiah 16:4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the DESTROYER.” The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.

 

Isaiah 23:1 [ A Prophecy Against Tyre ] A prophecy against Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is DESTROYED and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

 

Isaiah 23:11 The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be DESTROYED.

 

Isaiah 23:14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is DESTROYED!

 

Isaiah 25:7 On this mountain he will DESTROY the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;

 

Isaiah 32:7 Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to DESTROY the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

 

Isaiah 33:1 [ Distress and Help ] Woe to you, DESTROYER, you who have not been DESTROYED! Woe to you, betrayer, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop DESTROYING, you will be DESTROYED; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.

 

Isaiah 34:2 The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally DESTROY them, he will give them over to slaughter.

 

Isaiah 34:5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally DESTROYED.

 

Isaiah 36:10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and DESTROY this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and DESTROY it.’”

 

Isaiah 37:11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, DESTROYING them completely. And will you be delivered?

 

Isaiah 37:12 Did the gods of the nations that were DESTROYED by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

 

Isaiah 37:19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and DESTROYED them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

 

Isaiah 48:9 For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to DESTROY you completely.

 

Isaiah 48:19 Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor DESTROYED from before me.”

 

Isaiah 54:16 “See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the DESTROYER to wreak havoc;

 

Isaiah 65:8 This is what the Lord says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don’t DESTROY it, there is still a blessing in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not DESTROY them all.

 

Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor DESTROY on all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 1:10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to DESTROY and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

 

Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has come out of his lair; a DESTROYER of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.

 

Jeremiah 4:20 Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are DESTROYED, my shelter in a moment.

 

Jeremiah 4:27 This is what the Lord says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not DESTROY it completely.

 

Jeremiah 5:10 “Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not DESTROY them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 5:17 They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will DESTROY the fortified cities in which you trust.

 

Jeremiah 5:18 “Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not DESTROY you completely.

 

Jeremiah 6:2 I will DESTROY Daughter Zion, so beautiful and delicate.

 

Jeremiah 6:5 So arise, let us attack at night and DESTROY her fortresses!”

 

Jeremiah 6:26 Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the DESTROYER will come upon us.

 

Jeremiah 10:20 My tent is DESTROYED; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter.

 

Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and DESTROYED his homeland.

 

Jeremiah 11:19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us DESTROY the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

 

Jeremiah 12:12 Over all the barren heights in the desert DESTROYERs will swarm, for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe.

 

Jeremiah 12:17 But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and DESTROY it,” declares the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 13:14 I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from DESTROYING them.’”

 

Jeremiah 14:12 Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will DESTROY them with the sword, famine and plague.”

 

Jeremiah 15:3 “I will send four kinds of DESTROYERs against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and DESTROY.

 

Jeremiah 15:6 You have rejected me,” declares the Lord. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and DESTROY you; I am tired of holding back.

 

Jeremiah 15:8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a DESTROYER against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

 

Jeremiah 17:18 Let my persecutors be put to shame, but keep me from shame; let them be terrified, but keep me from terror. Bring on them the day of disaster; DESTROY them with double destruction.

 

Jeremiah 18:7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and DESTROYED,

 

Jeremiah 19:9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to DESTROY them.’

 

Jeremiah 21:10 I have determined to do this city harm and not good, declares the Lord. It will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will DESTROY it with fire.’

 

Jeremiah 22:7 I will send DESTROYERs against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut up your fine cedar beams and throw them into the fire.

 

Jeremiah 23:1 [ The Righteous Branch ] “Woe to the shepherds who are DESTROYING and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 24:10 I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are DESTROYED from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.’”

 

Jeremiah 25:9 I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely DESTROY them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.

 

Jeremiah 25:36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the Lord is DESTROYING their pasture.

 

Jeremiah 27:8 “‘“If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the Lord, until I DESTROY it by his hand.

 

Jeremiah 30:11 I am with you and will save you,’ declares the Lord. ‘Though I completely DESTROY all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely DESTROY you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’

 

Jeremiah 31:28 Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, DESTROY and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 36:29 Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and DESTROY this land and wipe from it both man and beast?”

 

Jeremiah 44:8 Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will DESTROY yourselves and make yourselves a curse and an object of reproach among all the nations on earth.

 

Jeremiah 44:11 “Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to bring disaster on you and to DESTROY all Judah.

 

Jeremiah 44:27 For I am watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all DESTROYED.

 

Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters. She says, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will DESTROY cities and their people.’

 

Jeremiah 46:28 Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,” declares the Lord. “Though I completely DESTROY all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely DESTROY you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”

 

Jeremiah 47:4 For the day has come to DESTROY all the Philistines and to remove all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon. The Lord is about to DESTROY the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

 

Jeremiah 48:8 The DESTROYER will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau DESTROYED, because the Lord has spoken.

 

Jeremiah 48:15 Moab will be DESTROYED and her towns invaded; her finest young men will go down in the slaughter,” declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.

 

Jeremiah 48:18 “Come down from your glory and sit on the parched ground, you inhabitants of Daughter Dibon, for the one who DESTROYS Moab will come up against you and ruin your fortified cities.

 

Jeremiah 48:20 Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered. Wail and cry out! Announce by the Arnon that Moab is DESTROYED.

 

Jeremiah 48:32 I weep for you, as Jazer weeps, you vines of Sibmah. Your branches spread as far as the sea; they reached as far as Jazer. The DESTROYER has fallen on your ripened fruit and grapes.

 

Jeremiah 48:42 Moab will be DESTROYED as a nation because she defied the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 48:46 Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are DESTROYED; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity.

 

Jeremiah 49:3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is DESTROYED! Cry out, you inhabitants of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; rush here and there inside the walls, for Molek will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

 

Jeremiah 49:10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, so that he cannot conceal himself. His armed men are DESTROYED, also his allies and neighbors, so there is no one to say,

 

Jeremiah 49:28 [ A Message About Kedar and Hazor ] Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked: This is what the Lord says: “Arise, and attack Kedar and DESTROY the people of the East.

 

Jeremiah 49:38 I will set my throne in Elam and DESTROY her king and officials,” declares the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 50:21 “Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod. Pursue, kill and completely DESTROY them,” declares the Lord. “Do everything I have commanded you.

 

Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from afar. Break open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain. Completely DESTROY her and leave her no remnant.

 

Jeremiah 51:1 This is what the Lord says: “See, I will stir up the spirit of a DESTROYER against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai.

 

Jeremiah 51:3 Let not the archer string his bow, nor let him put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; completely DESTROY her army.

 

Jeremiah 51:6 “Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be DESTROYED because of her sins. It is time for the Lord’s vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.

 

Jeremiah 51:11 “Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to DESTROY Babylon. The Lord will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple.

 

Jeremiah 51:13 You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be DESTROYED.

 

Jeremiah 51:20 “You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I DESTROY kingdoms,

 

Jeremiah 51:25 “I am against you, you DESTROYING mountain, you who DESTROY the whole earth,” declares the Lord. “I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.

 

Jeremiah 51:48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for out of the north DESTROYERs will attack her,” declares the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 51:53 Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, I will send DESTROYERs against her,” declares the Lord.

 

Jeremiah 51:55 The Lord will DESTROY Babylon; he will silence her noisy din. Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound.

 

Jeremiah 51:56 A DESTROYER will come against Babylon; her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken. For the Lord is a God of retribution; he will repay in full.

 

Jeremiah 51:62 Then say, ‘Lord, you have said you will DESTROY this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’

 

Lamentations 2:5 The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and DESTROYED her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.

 

Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has DESTROYED his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

 

Lamentations 2:8 The Lord determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from DESTROYING. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.

 

Lamentations 2:9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and DESTROYED. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the Lord.

 

Lamentations 2:11 My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are DESTROYED, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

 

Lamentations 2:22 “As you summon to a feast day, so you summoned against me terrors on every side. In the day of the Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived; those I cared for and reared my enemy has DESTROYED.”

 

Lamentations 3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are DESTROYED.

 

Lamentations 3:66 Pursue them in anger and DESTROY them from under the heavens of the Lord.

 

Lamentations 4:10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were DESTROYED.

 

Ezekiel 5:16 When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to DESTROY you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.

 

Ezekiel 6:3 and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will DESTROY your high places.

 

Ezekiel 9:8 While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to DESTROY the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

 

Ezekiel 11:13 Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Will you completely DESTROY the remnant of Israel?”

 

Ezekiel 13:14 I will tear down the wall you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you will be DESTROYED in it; and you will know that I am the Lord.

 

Ezekiel 14:9 “‘And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the Lord have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and DESTROY him from among my people Israel.

 

Ezekiel 16:39 Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and DESTROY your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.

 

Ezekiel 17:17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps are built and siege works erected to DESTROY many lives.

 

Ezekiel 20:13 “‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and DESTROY them in the wilderness.

 

Ezekiel 20:17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not DESTROY them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

 

Ezekiel 22:30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to DESTROY it, but I found no one.

 

Ezekiel 25:7 therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will DESTROY you, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”

 

Ezekiel 25:15 [ A Prophecy Against Philistia ] “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to DESTROY Judah,

 

Ezekiel 25:16 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will wipe out the Kerethites and DESTROY those remaining along the coast.

 

Ezekiel 26:4 They will DESTROY the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.

 

Ezekiel 26:17 Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “‘How you are DESTROYED, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.

 

Ezekiel 30:11 He and his army—the most ruthless of nations— will be brought in to DESTROY the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

 

Ezekiel 30:13 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I will DESTROY the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. No longer will there be a prince in Egypt, and I will spread fear throughout the land.

 

Ezekiel 32:13 I will DESTROY all her cattle from beside abundant waters no longer to be stirred by the foot of man or muddied by the hooves of cattle.

 

Ezekiel 34:16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will DESTROY. I will shepherd the flock with justice.

 

Ezekiel 36:35 They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and DESTROYED, are now fortified and inhabited.”

 

Ezekiel 36:36 Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was DESTROYED and have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’

 

Ezekiel 43:3 The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came to DESTROY the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.

 

Ezekiel 43:8 When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I DESTROYED them in my anger.

 

Daniel 2:44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be DESTROYED, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

 

Daniel 4:23 “Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and DESTROY it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’

 

Daniel 6:26 “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be DESTROYED, his dominion will never end.

 

Daniel 7:11 “Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body DESTROYED and thrown into the blazing fire.

 

Daniel 7:14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be DESTROYED.

 

Daniel 7:26 “‘But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely DESTROYED forever.

 

Daniel 8:24 He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will DESTROY those who are mighty, the holy people.

 

Daniel 8:25 He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will DESTROY many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be DESTROYED, but not by human power.

 

Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will DESTROY the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

 

Daniel 11:16 The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to DESTROY it.

 

Daniel 11:20 “His successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the royal splendor. In a few years, however, he will be DESTROYED, yet not in anger or in battle.

 

Daniel 11:22 Then an overwhelming army will be swept away before him; both it and a prince of the covenant will be DESTROYED.

 

Daniel 11:26 Those who eat from the king’s provisions will try to DESTROY him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall in battle.

 

Daniel 11:44 But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to DESTROY and annihilate many.

 

Hosea 4:5 You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will DESTROY your mother—

 

Hosea 4:6 my people are DESTROYED from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

 

Hosea 10:2 Their heart is deceitful, and now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will demolish their altars and DESTROY their sacred stones.

 

Hosea 10:7 Samaria’s king will be DESTROYED, swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

 

Hosea 10:8 The high places of wickedness will be DESTROYED— it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow up and cover their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

 

Hosea 10:15 So will it happen to you, Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely DESTROYED.

 

Hosea 13:9 “You are DESTROYED, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.

 

Joel 1:10 The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is DESTROYED, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.

 

Joel 1:11 Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is DESTROYED.

 

Amos 1:5 I will break down the gate of Damascus; I will DESTROY the king who is in the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden. The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord.

 

Amos 1:8 I will DESTROY the king of Ashdod and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn my hand against Ekron, till the last of the Philistines are dead,” says the Sovereign Lord.

 

Amos 2:3 I will DESTROY her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the Lord.

 

Amos 2:9 “Yet I DESTROYED the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I DESTROYED their fruit above and their roots below.

 

Amos 3:14 “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will DESTROY the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

 

Amos 3:15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be DESTROYED and the mansions will be demolished,” declares the Lord.

 

Amos 4:9 “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, DESTROYING them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

 

Amos 5:9 With a blinding flash he DESTROYS the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.

 

Amos 7:9 “The high places of Isaac will be DESTROYED and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”

 

Amos 9:1 [ Israel to Be DESTROYED ] I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.

 

Amos 9:8 “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord are on the sinful kingdom. I will DESTROY it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not totally DESTROY the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord.

 

Obadiah 1:8 “In that day,” declares the Lord, “will I not DESTROY the wise men of Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

 

Obadiah 1:10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be DESTROYED forever.

 

Obadiah 1:18 Jacob will be a fire and Joseph a flame; Esau will be stubble, and they will set him on fire and DESTROY him. There will be no survivors from Esau.” The Lord has spoken.

 

Micah 1:7 All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will DESTROY all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

 

Micah 5:9 Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be DESTROYED.

 

Micah 5:10 “In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will DESTROY your horses from among you and demolish your chariots.

 

Micah 5:11 I will DESTROY the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

 

Micah 5:12 I will DESTROY your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.

 

Micah 5:13 I will DESTROY your idols and your sacred stones from among you; you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

 

Micah 6:13 Therefore, I have begun to DESTROY you, to ruin you because of your sins.

 

Nahum 1:12 This is what the Lord says: “Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be DESTROYED and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.

 

Nahum 1:14 The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: “You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will DESTROY the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.”

 

Nahum 1:15 Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows. No more will the wicked invade you; they will be completely DESTROYED.

 

Nahum 2:2 The Lord will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though DESTROYERs have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.

 

Habakkuk 1:17 Is he to keep on emptying his net, DESTROYING nations without mercy?

 

Habakkuk 2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have DESTROYED lands and cities and everyone in them.

 

Habakkuk 2:17 The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed human blood; you have DESTROYED lands and cities and everyone in them.

 

Zephaniah 1:3 “I will sweep away both man and beast; I will sweep away the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea— and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.” “When I DESTROY all mankind on the face of the earth,” declares the Lord,

 

Zephaniah 1:4 “I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will DESTROY every remnant of Baal worship in this place, the very names of the idolatrous priests—

 

Zephaniah 1:11 Wail, you who live in the market district; all your merchants will be wiped out, all who trade with silver will be DESTROYED.

 

Zephaniah 2:5 Woe to you who live by the sea, you Kerethite people; the word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. He says, “I will DESTROY you, and none will be left.”

 

Zephaniah 2:11 The Lord will be awesome to them when he DESTROYS all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their own lands.

 

Zephaniah 2:13 [ Assyria ] He will stretch out his hand against the north and DESTROY Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert.

 

Zephaniah 3:6 [ Jerusalem Remains Unrepentant ] “I have DESTROYED nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty.

 

Zephaniah 3:7 Of Jerusalem I thought, ‘Surely you will fear me and accept correction!’ Then her place of refuge would not be DESTROYED, nor all my punishments come upon her. But they were still eager to act corruptly in all they did.

 

Zechariah 5:4 The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and DESTROY it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’”

 

Zechariah 9:4 But the Lord will take away her possessions and DESTROY her power on the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

 

Zechariah 9:15 and the Lord Almighty will shield them. They will DESTROY and overcome with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be full like a bowl used for sprinkling the corners of the altar.

 

Zechariah 11:3 Listen to the wail of the shepherds; their rich pastures are DESTROYED! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

 

Zechariah 12:1 [ Jerusalem’s Enemies to Be DESTROYED ] A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

 

Zechariah 12:9 On that day I will set out to DESTROY all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

 

Zechariah 14:11 It will be inhabited; never again will it be DESTROYED. Jerusalem will be secure.

 

Malachi 3:6 [ Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes ] “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not DESTROYED.

 

Matthew 6:19 [ Treasures in Heaven ] “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin DESTROY, and where thieves break in and steal.

 

Matthew 6:20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not DESTROY, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

 

Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can DESTROY both soul and body in hell.

 

Matthew 22:7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and DESTROYED those murderers and burned their city.

 

Matthew 26:61 and declared, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to DESTROY the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

 

Matthew 27:40 and saying, “You who are going to DESTROY the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”

 

Mark 1:24 “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to DESTROY us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

 

Mark 14:58 “We heard him say, ‘I will DESTROY this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.’”

 

Mark 15:29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to DESTROY the temple and build it in three days,

 

Luke 4:34 “Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to DESTROY us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

 

Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to DESTROY it?”

 

Luke 9:39 A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It scarcely ever leaves him and is DESTROYING him.

 

Luke 9:54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to DESTROY them?”

 

Luke 12:33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth DESTROYS.

 

Luke 17:27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and DESTROYED them all.

 

Luke 17:29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and DESTROYED them all.

 

John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “DESTROY this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

 

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and DESTROY; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

 

Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will DESTROY this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”

 

Acts 8:3 But Saul began to DESTROY the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

 

Acts 27:22 But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be DESTROYED.

 

Romans 14:15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating DESTROY someone for whom Christ died.

 

Romans 14:20 Do not DESTROY the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

 

1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written: “I will DESTROY the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

 

1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone DESTROYS God’s temple, God will DESTROY that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

 

1 Corinthians 6:13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will DESTROY them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

 

1 Corinthians 8:11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is DESTROYED by your knowledge.

 

1 Corinthians 10:10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the DESTROYING angel.

 

1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has DESTROYED all dominion, authority and power.

 

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy to be DESTROYED is death.

 

2 Corinthians 4:9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not DESTROYED.

 

2 Corinthians 5:1 [ Awaiting the New Body ] For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is DESTROYED, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

 

Galatians 1:13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to DESTROY it.

 

Galatians 1:23 They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to DESTROY.”

 

Galatians 2:18 If I rebuild what I DESTROYED, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

 

Galatians 5:15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be DESTROYED by each other.

 

Ephesians 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has DESTROYED the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,

 

Philippians 1:28 without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be DESTROYED, but that you will be saved—and that by God.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and DESTROY by the splendor of his coming.

 

2 Timothy 1:10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has DESTROYED death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

 

2 Timothy 2:18 who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they DESTROY the faith of some.

 

Hebrews 10:39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are DESTROYED, but to those who have faith and are saved.

 

Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the DESTROYER of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

 

James 1:11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is DESTROYED. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

 

James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and DESTROY. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

 

2 Peter 2:12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and DESTROYED, and like animals they too will perish.

 

2 Peter 3:6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and DESTROYED.

 

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be DESTROYED by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

 

2 Peter 3:11 Since everything will be DESTROYED in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives

 

1 John 3:8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to DESTROY the devil’s work.

 

Jude 1:5 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later DESTROYED those who did not believe.

 

Jude 1:10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will DESTROY them.

Jude 1:11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been DESTROYED in Korah’s rebellion.

 

Revelation 8:9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were DESTROYED.

 

Revelation 9:11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, DESTROYER).

 

Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small— and for DESTROYING those who DESTROY the earth.”

 

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The Wise Sloth Annotated Bible

• Attack
• Birds
• Blood
• Breasts
• Bull
• Camel
• Cattle
• Children
• Crush
• Destroy
• Discharge
• Dog
• Donkey
• Die
• Foreigner
• Foreskin and Circumcise
• Goat
• Gold
• Horse
• Kill
• Loot
• Murder
• Plunder
• Prostitute
• Sex
• Sheep
• Slaughter
• Slave
• Stone
• Sword
• Unclean
• Wife
• Wine
• Wives
• Woman
• Women
• Wrath