'Destroy' in the Bible

saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." They went to another village.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"