'Tore' in the Bible
for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,
As she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praise. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.
Then Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits.
Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod. Then he built cities in the vicinity of Ashdod and among the Philistines.
When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.
They tore down the altars of Baals in his presence. He chopped down the incense altars that stood high above them. He broke into pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast images, ground them to dust, and scattered the residue on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.
When the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard’—this is the Lord’s declaration.
Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
Related Words
- Torah (3 instances in 2 translations)
- Torch (8 instances in 12 translations)
- Torches (20 instances in 12 translations)
- Torment (33 instances in 12 translations)
- Tormented (23 instances in 12 translations)
- Tormenters (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Tormenting (5 instances in 5 translations)
- Tormentor (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Tormentors (4 instances in 10 translations)
- Torments (4 instances in 8 translations)
- Torn (130 instances in 12 translations)
- Tornado (3 instances in 2 translations)
- Torrent (58 instances in 8 translations)
- Torrent-bed (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Torrential (8 instances in 4 translations)
- Torrents (20 instances in 9 translations)
- Torso (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Tortoise (1 instance in 2 translations)
- Tortuous (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Torture (21 instances in 7 translations)
- Tortured (10 instances in 11 translations)
- Torturers (2 instances in 3 translations)
- Tortures (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Torturing (2 instances in 2 translations)
Bible Theasaurus
- Buck (25 instances)
- Charge (519 instances)
- Pluck (42 instances)
- Pull (50 instances)
- Shoot (65 instances)
- Snap (7 instances)
- Tear (134 instances)
- Tore (90 instances)
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