32 Bible Verses about Destruction Of Cities

I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices.

I will lay waste your cities and you will become desolated. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.

I will remove your (godess) Astarte from your midst. I will destroy your cities.

Then the Israelites made a vow to Jehovah: If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them. Jehovah heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah.

I will destroy the cities of your land, and I will throw down all your strongholds.

Your dwelling places in the cities will be ruined, and the worship sites will be wrecked. Your altars will be ruined and demolished. Your idols will be smashed and completely destroyed. Your incense burners will be cut down. Everything you have done will be wiped out.

Not a town will escape the destruction. Both valley and plain will be ruined. I Jehovah have spoken.

They will devour your harvest and your food. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will devour your flocks and your herds. They will devour your vines and your fig trees. They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty (inaccessible) city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.

The forest will be flattened because of hail, and the city will be completely leveled.

The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Jehovah.'

Then I said: How long, O Jehovah? And He answered: Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, until the houses are deserted and the land is utterly desolate.

I have destroyed nations! Their battlements are completely destroyed! I have made their streets waste so that none pass by. I destroyed the people and the cities so that there is no inhabitant.

You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

Young lions have roared at them. Young lions have turned the land into waste. The cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred and none may enter.

The city is left in ruins; its gate is battered to pieces.

I see that the fertile land has become a desert. Its cities are torn down because of Jehovah and his burning anger.

Have you not heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it! And now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

The city is exalted by the blessing of the upright. The mouth of the wicked ruins the city.

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. His roaring terrified the residents of the land.

I overthrew your cities as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city. Would you also destroy the place and not spare it because the righteous people are there?

He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, and made them an example to those who are ungodly.

When God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.

At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. They said to Lot: Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out of here right now, or you will be caught in the destruction of the city.

The angel said to him: All right, I will grant you this request too. I will not destroy the city you are talking about.

They burned the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements.

We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children. This was just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon.

He spoke to the men of Penuel: When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.