"Destroy not the tribe of the kindreds of the Kohathites, from among the Levites.

I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

But if you destroy this people {all at once}, the nations that will have heard your message will say,

"Separate yourselves from the midst of this community, that I can destroy them in a moment."

And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the {Israelites} when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the {Israelites} with my jealousy.

"Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: