'Broken down' in the Bible
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he raised up altars for Baalim, and made idol poles, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
And when he had broken down the altars and the idol poles, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even to the jackal's well, and to the refuse gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down; and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?
You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down.
He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations have broken down its choicest vines, they have come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they have gone over the sea.
And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall.
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is torn asunder, the earth is shaken exceedingly.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered,
They shall wail, saying, How it is broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismay to all them about him.
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain has withered.
For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us;