24 occurrences

'Destroy' in the Bible

and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsdoubt, results ofResentment, Against GodAmbivalenceGod Hating PeopleGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod Will Cause DefeatComplaining

Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentGod Opposing

for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentAssurance, basis ofGod's attitude towards peopleMercifulnessGod's MercyGod Remembering His CovenantGod Not ForsakingMercy

for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Verse ConceptsJealousyGod, JealousGod Is Among YouGod Will Kill His People

and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

Verse ConceptsMercy, HumanForbidden AlliancesFellowship With WickedExterminationGod Without MercyThose God Gave Into Their Hands

For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Verse ConceptsIdolatry Consists OfEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsGod Will Be AngryIntermarriage

and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

Verse ConceptsHatredHell, As An ExperienceGod Not DelayingGod Will RequiteHating Godhaters

Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance in the life of faithGod DestroyingCrossing Into The Promised Landtoughness

Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, ConsequencesMurmuringGod Might Kill His People

let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."

Verse ConceptsOblivionGod Might Kill His People

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

Verse ConceptsDispleasureGod Might Kill His PeopleGod Will Be AngryThose Frightened Of God

Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsGod Might Kill His PeoplePraying For SinnersGod Angry With Individuals

So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

Verse ConceptsForty DaysSecret PrayerMore Than One MonthGod Might Kill His People

I prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, As RedeemerGod, Majesty OfGod, Power OfPeople Of God, In OtRedemption, In Everyday LifeAbundance, SpiritualGod's HandGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.

Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthGod Unwilling

You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenHigh PlacesHillsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWorship At Trees

and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

Verse ConceptsStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsNames Blotted OutstatuesgenocideHinduism

but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

Verse ConceptsExterminationgenocide

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

Verse Conceptsprospering

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceSelf DelusionFalse ConfidencePathways Of SinMoist ThingsObstinate IndividualsPersistence

Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

Bible Theasaurus

Annual (17 instances)
Consume (170 instances)
Demolish (33 instances)
Destroy (457 instances)
Dispel (1 instance)
Dissipate (1 instance)
Dissolve (9 instances)