18 occurrences

'Destruction' in the Bible

For even if your people of Israel number as many as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Overwhelming, righteous destruction is decreed,

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

because the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will bring about destruction, as has been decreed, throughout the entire region.

Verse ConceptsEnd Of Actions

In just a little while, my fury will come to an end, and my anger then will be directed to their destruction.

Verse ConceptsSpeed Of God's Anger

Wail out loud, because the Day of the LORD is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty!

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That Day

"And I'm going to make it a possession of the hedgehog pools of water and I'll sweep with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent to Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

Let the fugitives from Moab settle among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor comes to an end, and destruction has ceased, and the marauder has vanished from the land,

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

Therefore I said: "Look away from me; and let me weep bitter tears; don't try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

But as for you, don't start mocking, or your chains will become tighter; for I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies about destruction, and it is decreed against the whole land.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

There is only loathsome destruction through a people that cannot benefit them, who bring neither help nor profit, but only shame and disgrace."

His breath is like an overflowing torrent, and it rises right up to the neck, to shake the nations in the sieve of destruction, and to place in the jaws of the nations a bit that leads them astray.

Verse ConceptsBridlesdrossHorsesSiftingSievingBinding As AnimalsLike A Flood

For the LORD is angry against all the nations, and furious against all their armies. He has doomed them to destruction, and given them up to be slaughtered.

Verse ConceptsArmies, GodAnnihilationGod Angry With The Nations

For my sword will be seen in the heavens. Look! It descends in judgment on Edom, on the people I have doomed to destruction.

Verse ConceptsMore Than EnoughGod's Sword

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, dooming them to destruction. So do you think you will be saved?

Verse ConceptsBad NewsNot SparingPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

So I'll disgrace the leaders of the Temple, and I'll consign Jacob to total destruction and Israel to contempt.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The Patriarch

"These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword who can console you?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths.

Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill

Then violence will no longer be heard in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders; but you'll call your walls "Salvation', and your gates "Praise'.

Verse ConceptsSalvation, Illustrations OfFigurative WallsFreedom From ViolenceGod Saves The NeedyPraise The Lord!Spilling Your Seed On The Groundborders

Bible Theasaurus

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

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