42 occurrences in 8 translations

'Destroys' in the Bible

I will establish my covenant with you: No living beings will ever be cut off again by flood waters, and there will never again be a flood that destroys the earth."

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahThe DelugeNeverNoah's FloodThe RainbowFloodsRainbow

And he thought, "If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be [able] to escape."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleSurvivors Of IsraelPeople Attacking Their Own

“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

because they will turn your children from me to serve other gods so that the LORD's anger blazes against you and swiftly destroys you by fire.

Verse ConceptsIdolatry Consists OfEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsGod Will Be AngryIntermarriage

But He directly pays back and destroys those who hate Him. He will not hesitate to directly pay back the one who hates Him.

Verse ConceptsHatredHell, As An ExperienceGod Not DelayingGod Will RequiteHating Godhaters

"When the LORD your God destroys those nations whose lands he is about to give you, you must dispossess them and live in their cities and houses.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Will Kill The Peoples

But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

Verse ConceptsReliabilityThreateningsGod Will Kill His People

If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, [saying], 'I have never seen you.'

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

It is all the same. Therefore I say,“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

Verse ConceptsFutilityEquality Of FateGod KillingGod Kills

He makes nations great, then destroys them;He enlarges nations, then leads them away.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsEzekiel Invasion

He is the God who executes vengeance on my behalf; who destroys nations under me;

Verse ConceptsRevenge, And Retaliation

plague that strikes in the darkness, or calamity that destroys at noon.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDarkness Of Evilvampires

The integrity of the upright guides them,but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodBusiness EthicsVirtueCrookednessIntegrityPerversion

A poor man who oppresses the weak is like a rainstorm that destroys all the crops.

Verse ConceptsRich, ThePitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The Poor

The one who robs his father or motherand says, “That’s no sin,”is a companion to a man who destroys.

Verse ConceptsChildren, UngratefulNo SinmomsDadsMothers And SonsParents Being Wrongthievescheaters

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingMistakesGod Angry With IndividualsErrorGuiltMaking MistakesSpeechjoking

Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool,and a bribe destroys the mind.

Verse ConceptsMadmenEffect Of BribesOppressorsDepressionoppressionpressure

They slice off [in discord] what is on the right hand but are still hungry,And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;Each eats the flesh of his own arm.

Verse ConceptsStomachs

A troubling vision is declared to me:“The treacherous one acts treacherously,and the destroyer destroys.Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Verse ConceptsProphetic Visionstraitors

For [the] fortified city [is] solitary, a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; [the] calf grazes there, lies down there and destroys its branches.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

Verse ConceptsChaffStrawLight As ChaffFire Of Evil

who destroys the omens of the false prophetsand makes fools of diviners;who confounds the wiseand makes their knowledge foolishness;

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligenceWisdom, Source Of HumanThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeFalse WisdomFrustrationCounted As Fools

Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyThose Who DestroyEmpty Cities

"Look, I'm against you, destroying mountain, who destroys the whole earth," declares the LORD. "I'll stretch out my hand against you and roll you down from the crags. And I'll make you a burned-out mountain.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of The WorldGod OpposingSeven Mountains

For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

Verse ConceptsSilenceDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedSoundRoar Of Nations

then if anyone who hears the sound of the alarm does not heed the warning, when the sword arrives and destroys him, his shed blood will remain his own responsibility.

Verse ConceptsHearing Things

If that sentinel notices that violence is approaching, but does not sound an alarm, then because the nation does not take warning and the sword arrives and destroys their lives because of their guilt, I'll seek retribution for their shed blood from the one who was acting as sentinel.'"

Verse ConceptsBeing A WitnessResponsibility, For God's WorldAccountabilityTrumpets For SignallingWarning IndividualsResponsible To WarnResponsibility

He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsTribulation PeriodAbomination Of DesolationThree And A Half YearsSeven YearsThe DestroyerIsrael In TribulationPeace And SafetyThe World Ruler

A fire destroys in front of them,and behind them a flame devours.The land in front of themis like the Garden of Eden,but behind them,it is like a desert wasteland;there is no escape from them.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheEdenAnticipationFire Of JudgementNo Escape

Arise and go, for this [is] no resting place, on account of uncleanness [that] destroys with painful destruction.

Verse ConceptsDeparturesDestructionGet Up!Unclean ThingsDefilementRestcorruption

You have increased your traders more than the [visible] stars of heaven—The creeping locust strips and destroys and then flies away.

Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceThings StrippedPeople MultiplyingThose Flying

Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,And You cannot look favorably on wickedness.Why then do You look favorablyOn those who act treacherously?Why are you silent when the wicked (Chaldean oppressors) destroyThose more righteous than they?

Verse ConceptsGod, Holiness OfIniquity, God's Attitude TowardEyes, Used Of GodEvilDoubting God's JusticeGod's Intolerance Of EvilPerfection, DivinePurity, Moral And SpiritualSilenceSin, And God's CharacterSuffering, Of The InnocentToleranceGod Being SilentGod Is PurePeople Commended By GodProsperity Of The WickedUnfaithfulInjustice

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H6
אבד 
'abad 
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