'Breaks' in the Bible

Come, let's deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country."

"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

If, however, the disease breaks out on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see,

"If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,

Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you -- in one of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you -- who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

The Lord's shout breaks the cedars, the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

He brings an end to wars throughout the earth; he shatters the bow and breaks the spear; he burns the shields with fire.

He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.

Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!

One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog's neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig's blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.

My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces all of these metals, so it will break in pieces and crush the others.

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.