32 Bible Verses about Destruction Of Cities

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Leviticus 26:31

And I will lay your cities [in] ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your [sacrifices'] appeasing fragrance.

Ezekiel 35:4

Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be desolation, and [then] you will know that I [am] Yahweh,

Micah 5:14

And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and I will destroy your cities.

Numbers 21:2-3

Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, "If you will surely give this people into our hand, then we {will destroy} their cities." Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave [to them] the Canaanites, and {they destroyed them} and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah.

Micah 5:11

And I will cut off the cities of your land, and I will demolish all your fortifications.

Ezekiel 6:6

In all of your dwellings, the cities will be desolate and the high places will be ruined, so that your altars will be desolate and will suffer punishment. Your idols will be broken and will come to an end, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works will be destroyed,

Jeremiah 48:8

And [the] destroyer will come to every town, and a town will not escape. And the valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.

Jeremiah 5:17

And they will eat your harvest and your food, they will eat your sons and your daughters, they will eat your flock and your herd, they will eat your vine and your fig tree, they will smash with the sword {your fortified cities}, in which you trust.

Isaiah 26:5

For he has thrown down [the] inhabitants of [the] height, he lays low [the] lofty city. He lays it low to [the] ground; he throws her to [the] dust.

Isaiah 32:19

And it hails when {the forest comes down}, and the city will become low in humiliation.

Ezekiel 12:20

And {the inhabited cites will be desolate}, and the land will be a desolation, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh." '"

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, "Until when, Lord?" And he said, "Until [the] cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined [and] a waste,

Zephaniah 3:6

"I have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed [and are] without a man, without an inhabitant.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have {made} [the] city heap, [the] fortified city a ruin, [the] palace of foreigners {is no longer} a city; it will {never} be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 2:15

[The] young lions have roared against him, they have {raised} their voices. And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, {without} an inhabitant.

Isaiah 24:10

[The] city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut {so that no one can enter};

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked and behold, the fruitful land [was] a desert, and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of {his burning anger}.

2 Kings 19:25

Have you not heard? From long ago I have determined it, from the days of old I have planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. It shall be turned into a pile of rocks; fortified cities are ruined.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard from {a long time ago}? I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it [about], and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.

Ezekiel 19:7

And he knew their widows, and he devastated their cities, and [the] land was appalled, and {everyone in it} at the sound of his roar.

Amos 4:11

"I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from [the] fire, and yet you did not return to me," [is] the declaration of Yahweh.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it [was] well-watered land--[this was] before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt {in the direction of} Zoar.

Genesis 18:24

If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep [them] away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst?

2 Peter 2:6

and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed [them] [as] an example for those who are going to be ungodly,

Genesis 19:29

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 19:15

And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters {who are staying with you}, lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city."

Genesis 19:21

And he said to him, "Behold, {I will grant this favor as well}; that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Numbers 31:10

They burned all their cities where they dwelled and all their camps with fire.

Deuteronomy 3:6

And [so] we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; [we destroyed] utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children.

Judges 8:9

And he said also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I return {safely}, I will tear down this tower."

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