12 occurrences

'Destroy' in the Bible

When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfArrows, Described AsArchers, Likened To GodFamine Coming From God

You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord God! Are You going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodProstrationRemnantSurvivors Destroyed

“But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutGod's HandGod DeceivingGod OpposingGod's Hands Stretched Out

Pharaoh will not help him with his great army and vast horde in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

therefore I am about to stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and eliminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsTowersWallsEmpty CitiesThings Stripped

He along with his people,ruthless men from the nations,will be brought in to destroy the land.They will draw their swords against Egyptand fill the land with the slain.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesKilling Many PeoplePeople Without Mercy

This is what the Lord God says:I will destroy the idols and put an endto the false gods in Memphis.There will no longer bea prince from the land of Egypt.So I will instill fear in that land.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFear Will ComeAbandoning IdolsNo King

The vision I saw was like the one I had seen when He came to destroy the city, and like the ones I had seen by the Chebar Canal. I fell facedown.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemVisions From God

Bible Theasaurus

Annual (17 instances)
Consume (170 instances)
Demolish (33 instances)
Destroy (457 instances)
Dispel (1 instance)
Dissipate (1 instance)
Dissolve (9 instances)

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