So Aaron said to them, "Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, so they broke off the attack and returned to their homeland.

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.

But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered -- a fire consumed them.

I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram and struck it and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. The goat hurled the ram to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

But shortly after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah.

Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.'"

before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the cistern --

Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.

and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?"

(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God's temple and used all the holy items of the Lord's temple in their worship of the Baals.)

Hezekiah energetically rebuilt every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, and fortified the terrace of the City of David. He made many weapons and shields.

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

"Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites' fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon's time.

You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.