Deuteronomy 13:15

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

¹⁴ Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you: ¹⁵ then thou shalt smite the dwellers of that city with the edge of the sword, and destroy it merciless and all that is therein, and even the very cattle thereof with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶ And gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the streets thereof, and burn with fire: both the city and all the spoil thereof every whit unto the LORD thy God. And it shall be a heap forever and shall not be built again.

By the Sword

Edge of the Sword

With The Sword

Exodus 22:20

He that offereth unto any gods save unto the LORD only, let him die without redemption.

Leviticus 27:28

Notwithstanding, no dedicated thing that a man dedicateth unto the LORD, of all his goods - whether it be man or beast or land of his inheritance - shall be sold or redeemed: for all dedicated things are most holy unto the LORD.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the LORD thy God hath set them before thee that thou shouldest smite them: see that thou utterly destroy them and make no covenant with them nor have compassion on them.

Exodus 23:24

see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.

Deuteronomy 2:34

And we took all his cities the same season, and destroyed all the cities with men, women, and children and let nothing remain,

Deuteronomy 7:16

Thou shalt bring to nought all nations which the LORD thy God delivereth thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods, for that shall be thy decay.

Joshua 6:17-21

But the city shall be excommunicate, both it and all that is therein, unto the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, both she and all that is with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

Joshua 6:24

And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein. Only the silver, the gold, and the things of brass and iron they put unto the treasure of the house of the LORD.

Judges 20:48

And then the men of Israel turned back again unto the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword in the cities, both man and beast and all that came to hand, and moreover set all the cities they could come by on fire.

Revelation 17:16

And the ten horns, which thou sawest upon the beast, are they that shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Revelation 18:18-24

and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What city is like unto this great city?'

Revelation 19:2-3

for true and righteous are his judgments, for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants of her hand."