Jeremiah 51:20
"Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.
Isaiah 41:15-16
"Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.
Isaiah 10:5
Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
Micah 4:13
"Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations." You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them, and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler of the whole earth.
Jeremiah 50:23
Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that 'hammer' has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Isaiah 10:15
Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
Isaiah 13:5
They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.
Isaiah 14:5-6
The Lord has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.
Isaiah 37:26
Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.
Jeremiah 25:9
So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
Jeremiah 25:11
This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
Jeremiah 27:5-7
"I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit.
Zechariah 9:13-14
I will bend Judah as my bow; I will load the bow with Ephraim, my arrow! I will stir up your sons, Zion, against yours, Greece, and I will make you, Zion, like a warrior's sword.
Matthew 22:7
The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.