36 Bible Verses about Burning Cities

Jehovah made burning sulfur and fire rain out of the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.

The king was angry, and sent his armies to put the evil servants to death and to destroy their town with fire.

They burned the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements.

The main Israelite army and the men in hiding had a prearranged signal. When they saw a big cloud of smoke going up from the town,

The Israelites turned back against the rest of the Benjaminites and killed them all, men and women, children and animals as well. They burned every town in the area.

Gather all its treasure into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its treasure with fire as a whole burnt offering to Jehovah your God. It shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

They burned the city and all its contents. They put the silver, gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

When you have taken the city you will set the city on fire according to the commandment of Jehovah. See, I have commanded you.

The ambush began quickly. They ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand. They entered into the city, captured it and quickly set the city on fire.

Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even desolation to this day.

They killed all the people there with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them. None were left alive. He burned Hazor with fire.

Israel did not burn the cities that stood on their own mounds with the exception of Hazor, which Joshua burned.

Those prideful people will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to help them get up. I will light a fire in their cities that will burn up everything around them.

The people of Israel have built palaces, and they have forgotten their maker. The people of Judah have built many fortified cities. I will send a fire on their cities and burn down their palaces.

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.

His armies marched out like fiery flames, burning down the town of Ar and destroying the hills along the Arnon River.

They took the things Micah made and the priest who belonged to him and attacked Laish. Laish was a town of peaceful, quiet people in the same valley as Bethrehob. They killed the inhabitants and burned the town.

Two days later David and his men came to Ziklag. The Amalekites raided the south country (Negev) including Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

When David and his men came to Zikleg they found it completely destroyed by fire. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

We raided the territory of the Cherethites in the southern part of Judah. We also raided the territory of the clan of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.

The king of Egypt attacked Gezer and captured it. They killed its inhabitants and set fire to the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter when she married Solomon.

That is why the days are coming,' declares Jehovah, 'when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah, where the people of Ammon live. It will become a pile of rubble. Its villages will be burned down.' 'Then Israel will take possession of its inheritance,' says Jehovah.

I will set fire to your city walls and burn down the fortresses King Benhadad built.

Pack your bags inhabitants of Egypt, because you will be taken away as captives. Memphis will become a dreary wasteland, a pile of rubble where no one lives.

So everyone cut off a tree limb. They followed Abimelech and piled the wood up against the stronghold. They set the fort on fire. All the people of the fort died. About a thousand men and women died.

When Abimelech attacked the tower he went to the door to set the tower on fire.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their fortified cities. Their strength has failed. They have become women. Their buildings are set on fire. The bars across their gates are broken.

The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

I will set fire to Egypt. Sin will be in much pain. Thebes will be broken into pieces, and Memphis will be in trouble every day.

I will destroy Pathros, set fire to Zoan and bring punishment on Thebes.

Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Behold! Jehovah will evict her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

But when Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled, and its high gates will be set on fire. People exhaust themselves for nothing. The nations wear themselves out only to have a fire.

The kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her, when they see the smoke of her burning.

and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying: 'What city is like this great city!'