Now it's your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way."

He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

Hazael asked, "Why are you crying, my master?" He replied, "Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women."

All the people of the land went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols to bits. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest then placed guards at the Lord's temple.

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.

The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,

you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern."

His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one's neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

(Tet) Her city gates have fallen to the ground; he smashed to bits the bars that lock her gates. Her king and princes were taken into exile; there is no more guidance available. As for her prophets, they no longer receive a vision from the Lord.

That idol was made by a workman -- it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

"'If you present a grain offering of first ripe grain to the Lord, you must present your grain offering of first ripe grain as soft kernels roasted in fire -- crushed bits of fresh grain.

Then the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke -- some of its crushed bits, some of its olive oil, in addition to all of its frankincense -- it is a gift to the Lord.

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.