83 occurrences

'Destruction' in the Bible

He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople BeginningWise Proverbs

But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Verse ConceptsDecayPoisonTeethWasteFamine ComingFamine Will Comehunger

Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Verse ConceptsPowerlessnessCursing IsraelUnder The Ban

He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfSubstitutionPredestination, Of PersonsAnnihilationEquality Of PunishmentPeople Set Free By People

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"

Verse ConceptsLove Between Relatives

The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Verse ConceptsFloggingFearlessnessScourgingFreedom From ViolenceThe TongueProtection And SafetyProtection From Danger

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Verse ConceptsLaughterFear, Of NaturalWild Beasts SubduedHelp In ShortageFreed From FearOvercoming Adversity

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Verse ConceptsdrinkingActing For Oneself

Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceRumoursThe DestroyerThe Fact Of Deathrumors

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

Verse ConceptsHarvestThe DestroyerAdultery

"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfDuties To EnemiesPeople Without Mercy

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitCreatures Returning To DustNot Praising Goddust

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Verse ConceptsLack Of ExpectationLet Evil Reboundsurprises

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's ConcernLionsRescueProlonged AfflictionsDeliverance From LionsBefore God Acts

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Verse ConceptsTongueFalsehoodSpeaking, EvilSharpnessRazors

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGod's Faithfulness

You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

Verse ConceptsMortalitySanctity Of LifeCreatures Returning To Dust

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDarkness Of Evilvampires

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCondemnation Of BabylonRejoicing Over JusticeRepaying Evil For EvilLet Evil Rebound

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In OtRighteous, TheWay, TheDestruction Of The Wicked

In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsFew PeopleKings And PrideSource Of Honour

for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both -- who knows?

Verse ConceptsPunishment Of the WickedThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden Destruction

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessForsaking GodRejection Of GodRenunciationSinnersConsequences Of Forsaking God

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

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

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction."

Verse ConceptsSpeed Of God's Anger

Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That Day

"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction."

Verse ConceptsLanguagesFive ThingsCities Under Attack

Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodKingdomsGod's HandDestruction Of StrongholdsGod's Hands Stretched Out

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Verse ConceptsBridlesdrossHorsesSiftingSievingBinding As AnimalsLike A Flood

These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

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

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

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

Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."

Verse ConceptsSafetyGod DestroyingOut Of The NorthFlags

Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

"Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

Verse ConceptsSafetyTrumpetBeaconsOut Of The NorthTrumpets For BattleNatural Disasters

As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthFountainsWellsContinuing In SinFreshWells, Figurative Use

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Verse ConceptsDouble Penalty

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's Wordjoking

Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulHeifersOut Of The NorthFlies

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Verse ConceptsDestruction

For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfSound

The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

Verse ConceptsCondemnation Of Babylon

My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

Verse ConceptsDestructionPitfalls

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelBereavement, Expression OfTearsI Mourn Catastrophe

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

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

Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Verse ConceptsPeace, In The WickedUnrestThe Ungodly SufferingNo Peace

I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleTroubling Groups Of People

But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Will Of Men

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem 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

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsTreasureMemphisAbandoning IdolsBurying places

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

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

Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDThe AlmightyGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That DayNear The Time Generally

who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

Verse ConceptsCityGod DestroyingDestruction Of Strongholds

But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In Evil

Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

Verse ConceptsDeparturesDestructionGet Up!Unclean ThingsDefilementRestcorruption

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Verse ConceptsDissensionContentiousnessDestructionViolence In The EarthFighting One AnotherWhy Does God Do This?Injustice

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofDestruction Of All CreaturesPursuing ViolenceFear Of Other ThingsReady To Kill

Bible Theasaurus

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