'Destruction' in the Bible

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the Lord out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord.

And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said,“Amalek was the first of the nations,But his end shall be destruction.”

“But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,And they shall afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber;So they also will come to destruction.”

‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plagueAnd bitter destruction;And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

They came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.

“For the waves of death encompassed me;The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;

He said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’”

The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Now the destruction of Ahaziah was from God, in that he went to Joram. For when he came, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not be angry with us to the point of destruction, until there is no remnant nor any who escape?

Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to plead with him for her people.

For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,Or does their calamity fall on them?Does God apportion destruction in His anger?

“On the right hand their brood arises;They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

“They break up my path,They profit from my destruction;No one restrains them.

There is nothing reliable in what they say;Their inward part is destruction itself.Their throat is an open grave;They flatter with their tongue.

Let destruction come upon him unawares,And let the net which he hid catch himself;Into that very destruction let him fall.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,And they devise treachery all day long.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

Your tongue devises destruction,Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Destruction is in her midst;Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.But I will trust in You.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,For my soul takes refuge in You;And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refugeUntil destruction passes by.

Surely You set them in slippery places;You cast them down to destruction.

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,One which devises mischief by decree?

Pride goes before destruction,And a haughty spirit before stumbling.

He who loves transgression loves strife;He who raises his door seeks destruction.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,But humility goes before honor.

A foolish son is destruction to his father,And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,Only a remnant within them will return;A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.

For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction.”

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

“I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

“Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you;Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,Let me weep bitterly,Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent;As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction,Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters,He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

And now do not carry on as scoffers,Or your fetters will be made stronger;For I have heard from the Lord God of hostsOf decisive destruction on all the earth.

For My sword is satiated in heaven,Behold it shall descend for judgment upon EdomAnd upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

“But evil will come on youWhich you will not know how to charm away;And disaster will fall on youFor which you cannot atone;And destruction about which you do not knowWill come on you suddenly.

These two things have befallen you;Who will mourn for you?The devastation and destruction, famine and sword;How shall I comfort you?

Their feet run to evil,And they hasten to shed innocent blood;Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

“Violence will not be heard again in your land,Nor devastation or destruction within your borders;But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.

“Lift up a standard toward Zion!Seek refuge, do not stand still,For I am bringing evil from the north,And great destruction.

For thus says the Lord,“The whole land shall be a desolation,Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

“Go up through her vine rows and destroy,But do not execute a complete destruction;Strip away her branches,For they are not the Lord’s.

“Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not make you a complete destruction.

“Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin,From the midst of Jerusalem!Now blow a trumpet in TekoaAnd raise a signal over Beth-haccerem;For evil looks down from the north,And a great destruction.

“As a well keeps its waters fresh,So she keeps fresh her wickedness.Violence and destruction are heard in her;Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.Bring on them a day of disaster,And crush them with twofold destruction!

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;I proclaim violence and destruction,Because for me the word of the Lord has resultedIn reproach and derision all day long.

“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,‘Devastation and great destruction!’

“For by the ascent of LuhithThey will ascend with continual weeping;For at the descent of HoronaimThey have heard the anguished cry of destruction.

“The noise of battle is in the land,And great destruction.

“Let not him who bends his bow bend it,Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor;So do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction.

The sound of an outcry from Babylon,And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

My eyes fail because of tears,My spirit is greatly troubled;My heart is poured out on the earthBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,When little ones and infants faintIn the streets of the city.

Panic and pitfall have befallen us,Devastation and destruction;

My eyes run down with streams of waterBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The hands of compassionate womenBoiled their own children;They became food for themBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.

I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.

“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

For behold, they will go because of destruction;Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;Thorns will be in their tents.

It is your destruction, O Israel,That you are against Me, against your help.

Alas for the day!For the day of the Lord is near,And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

It is He who flashes forth with destruction upon the strong,So that destruction comes upon the fortress.

“Do not gloat over your brother’s day,The day of his misfortune.And do not rejoice over the sons of JudahIn the day of their destruction;Yes, do not boastIn the day of their distress.

“Arise and go,For this is no place of restBecause of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,A painful destruction.

“The statutes of OmriAnd all the works of the house of Ahab are observed;And in their devices you walk.Therefore I will give you up for destructionAnd your inhabitants for derision,And you will bear the reproach of My people.”

Why do You make me see iniquity,And cause me to look on wickedness?Yes, destruction and violence are before me;Strife exists and contention arises.

A day of wrath is that day,A day of trouble and distress,A day of destruction and desolation,A day of darkness and gloom,A day of clouds and thick darkness,

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

Destruction and misery are in their paths,

What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

in no way alarmed by your opponents—which is a sign of destruction for them, but of salvation for you, and that too, from God.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.

These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.