26 Bible Verses about Crushing

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Deuteronomy 9:21

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire and thoroughly crushed it, grinding the metal thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

2 Chronicles 34:7

he tore down the altars and beat and crushed the Asherim and the carved images into powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Job 39:14-15


For she leaves her eggs on the ground
And warms them in the dust,

Forgetting that a foot may crush them,
Or that the wild beast may trample them.

Isaiah 27:9


Therefore through this the wickedness [the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing] of Jacob (Israel) will be atoned for and forgiven;
And this will be the full price [that God requires] for taking away his sin:
When Israel makes all the stones of the [pagan] altars like crushed chalk stones;
When the Asherim and the incense altars will not stand.

Daniel 2:40

Then a fourth kingdom (Rome) will be strong as iron, for iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes things in pieces, it will break and crush all these [others].

Leviticus 2:14

‘If you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the Lord, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.

Numbers 11:8

The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes with it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh [olive] oil.

Job 24:11


“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;
They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.

Micah 6:15


“You shall sow but you shall not reap;
You shall tread olives, but shall not anoint yourself with oil,
And [you will extract juice from] the grapes, but you shall not drink the wine.

2 Samuel 22:38-39


“I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed (eliminated).

“I consumed them and shattered them, so that they did not rise;
They fell under my feet.

Psalm 110:5-6


The Lord is at Your right hand,
He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.

He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.

Leviticus 22:24

You shall not offer to the Lord any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut off, or sacrifice it in your land.

Deuteronomy 23:1

“He who has been castrated by having his testicles crushed or his male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of the Lord.

Job 6:8-9


“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.

Isaiah 3:15


“What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.

Amos 2:13


“Behold, I am weighted down beneath you
As a cart that is weighted down when it is full of sheaves.

Malachi 1:4

Though [impoverished] Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins.” Thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the Wicked Territory, the people against whom the Lord is indignant forever.”

Job 19:2


“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

Proverbs 15:4


A soothing tongue [speaking words that build up and encourage] is a tree of life,
But a perversive tongue [speaking words that overwhelm and depress] crushes the spirit.

Matthew 21:44

And he who falls on this Stone will be broken to pieces; but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Luke 20:18

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken and shattered in pieces; and on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”

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