"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 greater nation and a mightier than they."

Then Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD and said, "If thou wilt give this people into our hands, we will destroy their cities."

And out of Jacob shall come he that shall destroy the remnant of the cities."

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave the people in the wilderness: so shall ye destroy all this folk."

see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and destroy their imaginations and all their images of metal, and pluck down all their altars built on hills: