50 occurrences

'Destruction' in the Bible

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelWar As God's JudgmentGod Might Kill His People

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessForsaking GodRejection Of GodRenunciationSinnersConsequences Of Forsaking God

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

Verse ConceptsdefianceJerusalem, Significance OfDisobedience, To GodInfidelity To GodDownfall Of Israel

Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

Verse ConceptsKilling Will Happenbranding

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:

Verse ConceptsZion, As A PlaceNames Written In HeavenSurvivors FavouredA Holy Nationzion

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sBeing MisleadMisleading ChildrenLeaders

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheVisitationGod VisitingReckoningDrawbacks To RichesPeople From Far Away

But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.

Verse ConceptsMan's PurposesPeople Destroying Foreign Nationsflexibility

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfWisdom, Human NatureFalse WisdomActing For Oneself

For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.

Verse ConceptsEnd Of Actions

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

Verse ConceptsSpeed Of God's Anger

They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

Verse ConceptsBabylonGod's IndignationAnger Of God, ConsequencesWeaponsDestruction Of CountriesWeapons Of GodGood Things From Far AwayPeople From Far Away

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That Day

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toSinnersAnger Of God, ConsequencesExterminationLand Becoming EmptyThe Fact Of That DayThe Coming Day Of God's Wrathwrath

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfCityKingdomsPride, Results OfSodom And GomorrahWorldlinessBabylon Destroyed

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents SinSins Of The Fathers

And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortsSurvivors FavouredNorthern Kingdom Of Israelsyriadamascus

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsValleysWallsVisions From God

In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

Verse ConceptsSpiritsThe Finality Of DeathDeath Is FinalLiveTrust In Relationships

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

Verse ConceptsBitingHailRainGod Giving StrengthGod Gives Strength

And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.

Verse ConceptsBridlesdrossHorsesSiftingSievingBinding As AnimalsLike A Flood

Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.

Verse ConceptsArmies, GodAnnihilationGod Angry With The Nations

And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Countries

Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionEdenNo Help In Other Gods

And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stonestatues

You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsNon ExistenceSeeking But Not Finding PeopleWarEnemy Attacks

Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsShameNo Other Acts Like GodGod Our StrengthShame Will ComeAngry With God

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionSuddenlyNot Knowing The Future

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

Verse ConceptsFailture, God Will Nevereternity, nature ofAstronomyInsectsEarth, Destruction OfSmokeEcological ConcernsImputed RighteousnessSalvation, Described AsEternal DeliveranceThe Universe DestroyedDisappearanceThings Wearing OutLooking At God's WorksAbrasionSmoke Used Poetically

And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

Verse ConceptsFoundations

These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsBlacksmithsThose Who DestroyFurnacescraftsmanshipcredibility

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill

For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleAnnihilation

Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.

Verse ConceptsSalvation, Illustrations OfFigurative WallsFreedom From ViolenceGod Saves The NeedyPraise The Lord!Spilling Your Seed On The Groundborders

Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsTreasureArchaeologyBurning JerusalemOther Praising Of GodPraising God In Public Worship

This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.

Verse ConceptsGrapesNot DestroyedFor The Sake Of God's People

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

Verse ConceptsFutureBad ParentsUseless LabourGod BlessesRaising ChildrenFamily Problems

The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLambsLionsMessianic AgeMillenniumRenewal, Of Natural OrderRest, EternalSnakesStomachsStrawAbstaining From MeatsDeliverance From LionsPower Over SnakesWolvesNoting What Animals EatAnimals Going To HeavenSleeping Peacefully

Bible Theasaurus

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

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain