17 occurrences in 13 translations

'Destruction' in the Bible

You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.

Verse ConceptsStumblingDownfall Of IsraelWicked ProphetsDuring The Day

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAttitudes Of RebellionRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfInfidelity To GodDestruction Of The WickedPeople Going AstrayWoe To Israel And Jerusalem

They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfRidicule, Nature OfAccuracyKilled With The Sword

They have installed kings,but not through Me.They have appointed leaders,but without My approval.They make their silver and goldinto idols for themselvesfor their own destruction.

Vers-ThemenGold

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

Verse ConceptsSwallowingForeigners Included Among The People

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsTreasureMemphisAbandoning IdolsBurying places

Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleInstabilityLukewarmnessHalf HeartednessIndecisionDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSuicideThornsBarren, LandThistlesDestruction Of Satan's WorksEscaping To MountainsDesire For Death

the roar of battle will rise against your people,and all your fortifications will be demolishedin a day of war,like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel.Mothers will be dashed to piecesalong with their children.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofFortificationsPeople Torn To PiecesDestruction Of Strongholds

And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

Verse ConceptsGatesLocks And Bars

I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.

Verse ConceptsSanctification, Nature And BasisAnger Of God, Saved FromGod In Relation To ManGod Will No More Be AngryMan's Relation To God

Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsAliancesFeedingFalse ConfidenceIdolatry, Objections ToTreatyWindForbidden AlliancesPursuing ViolenceOut Of The EastThe East Wind

It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessFruits Of SinNo Helpisrael

The wickedness of Ephraim [which is not yet completely punished] is bound up [as in a bag];His sin is stored up [for judgment and destruction].

Verse ConceptsStoringAccumulatingJoined To EvilStoring Other ThingsGod's People Sinningrelaxing

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Verse ConceptsDeath, DefeatedThe DeadGrave, TheHell, As An ExperiencePower, God's SavingRansomRedemption, In OtResurrection, Of BelieversCoping With DeathOvercoming DeathGod Without MercyDeathAbolishing Death

Bible Theasaurus

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

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