21 occurrences

'Destruction' in the Bible

And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.

Verse ConceptsBad Newsdoubt, results ofGiantsexploring

I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceGod Might Kill His People

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod KillingGod Killed His People

I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

Verse ConceptsDecadenceDying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

Verse ConceptsSeparationSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

Verse ConceptsDanger When God Is Near

Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

Verse ConceptsVowsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationThose God Gave Into Their Hands

For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesArnon

Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesFalse Gods

They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGrassTongueAnimals Eating

I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.

Verse ConceptsDawnForeheadsBethlehemLight, SpiritualNewsSceptreStarsThe Morning StarClosenessThe First Sight Of ChristChrist Is King Of IsraelMessianic Prophecies

Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople BeginningWise Proverbs

But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

Verse ConceptseagernessGod, Zeal OfAction Lest God Be Angry

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentDying In The WildernessIf You Turn From God

While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornDeath Of The FirstbornNo Help In Other Gods

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

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Consumption (21 instances)
Demolition (1 instance)
Devastation (35 instances)
Dissolution (5 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain