40 occurrences

'Broke' in the Bible

The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

Verse ConceptsBoth Men And Animals AffectedHarming Trees

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Verse ConceptsPeople Giving Other Things

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordCordsYokesBreaking SticksGod Lifting PeopleThe Lord Is GodTenons And BarsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptslaveryBreaking Chains

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark."

Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

Verse ConceptsBeginningNightOne Hundredgideon

All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. Then they yelled, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!"

Verse ConceptsShoutingBattle CriesGod's Swordgideon

The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

When these men broke into Micah's house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

Verse ConceptsHousehold GodsCarvingWhat Do You Do?

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsBackwardsPeople Tumblinglosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherLeadership QualitiesFalling Backwards

So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationDrawing WaterPouring WaterBreaking Forthrisk

So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, so they broke off the attack and returned to their homeland.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeWallsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfSacrificing The FirstbornSacrifice

King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He attacked Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate -- a distance of about six hundred feet.

Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

This happened because they did not obey the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord's servant, had commanded.

Verse ConceptsListeningMoses, Significance OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversBreaking The Covenant

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king's garden. (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.

Verse ConceptsHorticultureWallsEnemies SurroundingComing BetweenWalled TownsIsrael FleeingDuring One NightTwo Parts Of Constructions

The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord's temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the "The Sea." They took the bronze to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonSeaSacrilegeBreaking ContainersPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing BronzeBronze Items For The Tabernacle

So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterPouring Water

King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate -- a distance of about six hundred feet.

Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

Uzziah attacked the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. He built cities in the region of Ashdod and throughout Philistine territory.

Verse ConceptsWalls

He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Verse ConceptsTeethDentistryBreaking TeethIndividuals Saving Others

You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

Verse ConceptsdrynessRivers And StreamsGod Providing WaterGod Drying Things Up

He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, God'sSplitting RocksProvision From Rocks

When the Lord heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Them

He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarming Trees

They made the Lord angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter's snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

Verse ConceptsHuntingBirds, Figurative UseWorldly SnaresEscaping The TrapBirdsBreaking Chains

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

The answer will come back, "It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods."

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsBreaking The Covenant

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationBreaking Chains

It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsMonth 4Destruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallYears Of Zedekiah

They broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king's garden. (The Babylonians had the city surrounded.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsHorticultureComing BetweenCity GatesIsrael Fleeing

The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the "The Sea." They took all the bronze to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonPillars For Solomon's Temple

"'As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke -- in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToPossibility Of DeathAuthority Delegated To People

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of StrongholdsCities Under AttackPeople Appalled

But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered -- a fire consumed them.

Verse ConceptsRootsWindDestruction Of PlantsOut Of The EastBurning PlantsPutting Things Down

when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

Verse ConceptsShouldersBreaking SticksPeople Shakingmuscles

I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram and struck it and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. The goat hurled the ram to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power.

Verse ConceptsWeak AnimalsBeating AnimalsTrampling AnimalsHorns BrokenTwo Of Body PartsNo One Can SavePutting Animals Down

Bible Theasaurus

Bankrupt (2 instances)
Better (302 instances)
Breach (52 instances)
Burst (49 instances)
Collapse (34 instances)
Dampen (1 instance)
Demote (2 instances)
Disclose (36 instances)
Discontinue (1 instance)
Discover (49 instances)
Erupt (4 instances)
Expose (42 instances)
Founder (7 instances)
Offend (33 instances)
Reveal (107 instances)
Separate (157 instances)
Smash (27 instances)
Soften (1 instance)
Split (48 instances)
Transgress (33 instances)
Uncover (39 instances)
Unwrap (1 instance)
Violate (24 instances)
Weaken (6 instances)

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