23 Bible Verses about Names Blotted Out

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father."

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?"

So now swear to me in the Lord's name that you will not kill my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father."

Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying, 'Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.' They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband."

The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel's memory from under heaven, so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.

They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!"

The Lord has issued a decree against you: "Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave -- because you are accursed!"

"I will attack Judah and all who live in Jerusalem. I will remove from this place every trace of Baal worship, as well as the very memory of the pagan priests.

And also on that day," says the Lord who rules over all, "I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

My enemies ask this cruel question about me, 'When will he finally die and be forgotten?'

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, "Let's destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let's remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more."

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them, they were not your subjects.

The one who conquers will be dressed like them in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, but will declare his name before my Father and before his angels.

Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.

Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The sovereign Lord will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. "Follow me," he said to him. And he got up and followed him.