32 Bible Verses about Destruction Of Cities

And I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

I will raze your cities, and you shall be ruined, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

And I will pluck your shrines out of the midst of you; so I will destroy your cities.

And Israel vowed a vow to Jehovah and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will completely destroy their cities. And Jehovah listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites. And they completely destroyed them and their cities. And he called the name of the place Hormah.

And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your strongholds.

In all the places where you live, cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be deserted; so that your altars may be laid waste and become guilty, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your pillars may be cut down, and your works wiped out.

And the robber shall come on every city, and no city shall escape. Also the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as Jehovah has spoken.

And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig-trees. One shall beat down your fortified cities with the sword, those in which you trust.

For He brings down those who dwell on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it to the dust.

Though it hails, when the forest is felled, and the city laid low.

And the cities that have people shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation,

I have cut off the nations; their towers are ruined. I made their streets waste, so that none passes by; their cities are laid waste, without a man, there being no inhabitant.

For You have made a heap from a city; a fortified city into a ruin; a citadel of foreigners to be no city; it shall never be built.

The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.

The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with ruin.

I looked, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down before the face of Jehovah, before His fierce anger.

Have you not heard it from afar, I made it? From days of old I fashioned it! Now I have caused it to come; that you should make fortified cities desolate heaps of ruins.

Have you not heard from afar? I made it from days of old, even I have formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash into heaps, ruins.

By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

And he knew his widows, and he laid their cities waste, and the land and its fullness was desolated, from the sound of his roaring.

I have overthrown some among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was all well watered (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.

Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city. Will You also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it?

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, He condemned them with an overthrow, setting an example to men intending to live ungodly.

And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

And when the dawn rose up, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, Rise up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

And He said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

And they burned with fire all their cities, their homes, and all their towers.

And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, completely destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.