'Destroy' in the Bible

So Israel made a vow to the Lord, and said, “If You will indeed hand over these people to me, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

“One from [the descendants of] Jacob shall have dominionAnd will destroy the remnant from the city.”

For if you turn back from following Him [completely], He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their sculpted images, and destroy all their cast idols and completely eliminate all their [idolatrous] high places,