'Destruction' in the Bible

But the LORD had planned to circumvent the sound advice of Ahithophel so the LORD could bring Absalom to destruction. So Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, what Ahithophel had suggested to Absalom and the elders of Israel. He also reported what he himself had proposed. Hushai said,

They told the king, "The man who consumed us, who planned our destruction intending to leave us with nothing in the territory of Israel