18 occurrences in 12 translations

'Destroyed' in the Bible

and say, 'Blood this is; the kings have been surely destroyed, and they smite each his neighbour; and now for spoil, Moab!'

Verse ConceptsPlunderingLifebloodKilling One Another

They destroyed the cities, and each of them threw stones to cover every good piece of land. They stopped up every spring of water and cut down every good tree. In the end, only the buildings of Kir-hareseth were left. Then men with slings surrounded the city and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodKilling Whole Families

So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day.

Verse ConceptsDefecation

Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

Verse ConceptsInsecurityMothers Of KingsKilling Whole FamiliesKilling Sons And DaughtersGrandmothers

Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down. They utterly smashed his altar and his images to pieces, and they put Mattan the priest of Baal to death in front of the altars. And [Jehoiada] the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsDestruction Of Satan's WorksKilling Priests

Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersThreshingTen ThingsFiftiesTens Of ThousandsGrinding People

He said, “Open the window toward the east,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” And he shot. And he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them.”

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of Openingdeliverancesyria

At this, the man of God became angry at him and told him, "You should have struck five or six times! Then you would have attacked Aram until you would have destroyed it! But as it is now, you'll defeat Aram only three times!"

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesOvercoming Hard Timessyria

At that time Menahem destroyed Tiphsah, all who [were] in it, and all its territory from Tirzah, because [it] had not opened [to him], so he destroyed it and ripped open all of its pregnant women.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofPregnancyGashing BodiesHarming Pregnant Women

Now, without Jehovah have I come up against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CountriesGod's Orders

Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

Verse ConceptsFalse Religion

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsSuffering, Nature Of

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsCreativityStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stone

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsFalse ReligionBowingAltars, PaganBuilding AltarsList Of Kings Of IsraelServing Asherah

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sUnfaithfulness, To GodSeducersgays

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Demolish (33 instances)
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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
perish , destroy , lose , be lost , lost ,
Usage: 37

διαφθείρω 
Diaphtheiro 
Usage: 5

ἐξολοθρεύω 
Exolothreuo 
Usage: 1

καθαιρέω 
Kathaireo 
Usage: 8

καταλύω 
Kataluo 
Usage: 12

καταργέω 
Katargeo 
destroy , do away , abolish , cumber , loose , cease , fall , deliver , s
Usage: 25

λύω 
Luo 
Usage: 28

ὀλοθρεύω 
Olothreuo 
Usage: 1

πορθέω 
Portheo 
Usage: 3

φθείρω 
Phtheiro 
Usage: 8

φθορά 
Phthora 
Usage: 9

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