4 occurrences

'Devastate' in the Bible

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord,“Arise, go up to KedarAnd devastate the men of the east.

“I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow herAnd may devastate her land;For on every side they will be opposed to herIn the day of her calamity.

Verse ConceptsForeignersWinnowing

By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations,And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,And all its hordes will be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordThe Proud Will Be Abased

Bible Theasaurus

Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)

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