46 occurrences in 13 translations

'Destruction' in the Bible

You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Verse ConceptsMade A HorrorThe Nations Before GodFun

When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfArrows, Described AsArchers, Likened To GodFamine Coming From God

You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, SpiritualPriests, Function In Ot TimesProphets, Role OfRumoursVisionsDisastersCataclysmSpiritual DestitutionNo VisionsProphecy Abolishedrumors

Then the Spirit shouted right in my ears with a loud voice! "Come forward," he said, "you executioners of the city, and bring your weapon of destruction in your hand!"

Verse ConceptsExecutionersThose Who DestroyGod's VoiceGod Will Kill His People

aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom is the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

Verse ConceptsTouchActivity BegunGod Will Kill His PeopleChild AbuseThe Elderly

And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

Verse ConceptsFilling The SanctuaryGoing OutsideGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleCourts Of The Temple

Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodProstrationRemnantSurvivors Destroyed

And it happened [that] {as I was prophesying}, Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried [with] a loud voice, and I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, you [are] making complete destruction [of] the remnant of Israel!"

Verse ConceptsRemnantSurvivors DestroyedCries Of Distress To God

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will cause to burst forth a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing rain in mine anger, and hail-stones in fury for utter destruction.

Verse ConceptsWindGod Sending RainGod Dispensing WindFloods

So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of The WickedFoundations Of NationsPlasterThings StrippedWhitewashingMoral Decay

Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming Empty

And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of StrongholdsCities Under AttackPeople Appalled

And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.

Verse ConceptsSceptreBurning Plants

But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfLongsuffering Of GodDying In The Wilderness

And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

Verse ConceptsNorthSouthNorth And SouthHarming Trees

At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

I will pour out My indignation on you;I will blow the fire of My fury on you.I will hand you over to brutal men,skilled at destruction.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodSkillThose Who DestroyFire Of God's AngerSkilled People

Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

Verse ConceptsWicked RulersRulers, WickedSheddingPeople Torn To PiecesWolvesJudged As Murderers

And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

Verse ConceptsDestructionRelated NationsPeople Appalled

So Ezekiel will be a sign to you; in accordance with all that he has done you will do. And when this [destruction of the temple] comes, then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord God.’”

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersPeople As SignsEverything Happening For A Reason

that on that day a survivor will come to you to let you hear [of the destruction of Jerusalem] with your [own] ears.

Verse ConceptsFugitives

For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of the {acting} of [the] Philistines in vengeance, so that they avenged themselves relentlessly with malice in themselves for destruction {with everlasting hostility},

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfEternal EvilMan AvengingRevenge

The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

Verse ConceptsFortificationsTowersWallsEmpty CitiesThings Stripped

They will plunder your riches and loot your businesses. They'll tear down your walls and demolish your luxurious homes. They'll grab the stones, wood, and rubble from the destruction and dump it all into the Mediterranean Sea.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Stones RejectedDrawbacks To RichesWood And Stone

And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

Verse ConceptsMarinersFearing Other People

And they will raise over you with their wailing a lament, and they will chant a lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like [this] destruction in the midst of the sea?'

Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

Everyone who lives by the sea is appalled at your destruction. Their leaders are terrified their faces reflect their fears!

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfPeople Appalled

To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationPitsGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableIn The Heart Of The SeaPits As A Term For Graves

He and the people with him, causing fear among the nations, will be sent for the destruction of the land; their swords will be let loose against Egypt and the land will be full of dead.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesKilling Many PeoplePeople Without Mercy

This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFear Will ComeAbandoning IdolsNo King

Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.

Verse ConceptsWhalesCosmic CreaturesLike Creatures

I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleTroubling Groups Of People

I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordThe Proud Will Be Abased

I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

Verse ConceptsCripplesFatnessDoubt, Dealing WithKnowing God, Effects OfSheepWatchfulness, DivineWeakness, SpiritualBones BrokenLimitations Of StrengthWeak AnimalsFat AnimalsGod Searching For PeopleReinstating PeopleJoining Flesh And BonesLost Peoplelosing a loved oneHealing A Broken HeartHurtMissing SomeoneRecoveryLosing A FriendWeaknessBeing LostFeeling LostLosing SomeoneTaking Care Of The EarthBroken Heartsseekingwandering

This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

Verse ConceptsBereavementPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

and you will go up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. In the last days it will come about that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog.”

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelEnd Of The WorldCovering The EarthNations Attacking Israel

I'm going to turn you around, drag you along to your destruction, and bring you up from the farthest parts of the north, and carry you to the mountains of Israel.

Verse ConceptsOut Of The NorthCausing People To TurnThe Mountains Of Israel

At the beginning of year 25 of our captivity, on the tenth day of the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem on that very day the LORD grabbed me in his hand and took me there.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodNew Year, TheGod's HandDay 10God's Hands On PeopleBeginning Of PeriodsCapturing CitiesTime Of Yearanniversary

And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision I saw beside the River Chebar [near Babylon]; and I fell face downward.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemVisions From God

By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsProfaning God's NameDanger When God Is Near

"This is what the Lord GOD says, "Enough of you, you regent princes of Israel! Abandon your violence and destruction. Practice what is just and right instead! Stop confiscating property from my people!' declares the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toViolenceCessationStopping EvilAvoiding ViolenceNot Destroyedcheaters

Bible Theasaurus

Consumption (21 instances)
Demolition (1 instance)
Devastation (35 instances)
Dissolution (5 instances)

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