48 occurrences in 5 translations

'Eliminate' in the Bible

"If anyone from the house of Israel or a resident alien who lives among you eats any form of blood, I'll oppose that person who ate the blood and eliminate him from his people,

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodGod OpposingForeigners Included In The LawForbidden FoodThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelStrangers in israel

As for me, I'll oppose that man. I'll eliminate him from contact with his people for sacrificing his children to Molech, thereby defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodOpposition, To Sin And EvilSanctuaryProfaning God's NameGod OpposingPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

then I'll oppose that man and his family and eliminate him from contact with his people, along with all the prostitutes who accompany him and who have committed prostitution with Molech."

Verse ConceptsProstitutionGod OpposingThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelDeath Penalty For Heresy

I'll eliminate anyone who does work that day from among his people.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Kills

I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

Verse ConceptsSleeplessnessWild Beasts SubduedPeaceMaking Peace With EnemiesSleeping PeacefullyDivine Protection

"You are not to eliminate the tribe of the families of the descendants of Kohath from the descendants of Levi.

Why are you going to eliminate the name of our father from his family, just because he had no son? Give us a possession from among our father's relatives."

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted Out

Indeed, the Lord’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentGod Opposing

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

Verse ConceptsStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsNames Blotted OutstatuesgenocideHinduism

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this, will surround us, and eliminate us from the earth! Then what will you do about your great reputation?"

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, The LordEnemies SurroundingNames Blotted OutFor The Sake Of His Name

Any of you whom I don't eliminate from serving at my altar will grow tired from weeping, and their souls will grieve. All the increase of your family will die by violence.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfSorrowUnhappinessWeepingDeath As Punishment

Now swear to me by the LORD that you will never eliminate my descendants after me, and that you won't erase my name from my father's family."

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutChildren Suffering

She replied, “Please, may the king invoke the Lord your God, so that the avenger of blood will not increase the loss, and they will not eliminate my son!”“As the Lord lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son will fall to the ground.”

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

The king will surely listen in order to rescue his servant from the hand of this man who would eliminate both me and my son from God’s inheritance.

Verse ConceptsPaying Attention To People

then I will eliminate Israel from the land that I gave them and from the Temple that I've consecrated for my name. I will throw them out of my sight, and Israel will become the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentThreateningsFunjoking

and whose descendants had survived them and continued to live in the land because the Israelis were unable to completely eliminate them, Solomon placed under conscripted labor, a situation that remains in effect to this day.

Verse ConceptsForced LabourRelationships To This Day

Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males,both slave and free, in Israel;I will sweep away the house of Jeroboamas one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!

Verse Conceptsdung and manureDefecationUrinatingDeath Of All MalesGod Will Kill His People

The Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel, who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam. This is the day, yes, even today!

This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you and will sweep away your descendants:I will eliminate all of Ahab’s males,both slave and free, in Israel;

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All MalesSlave Or Free

The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will eliminate all of Ahab’s males, both slave and free, in Israel.

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All MalesKilling Whole Families

Now therefore look! The Ammonites, the Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir, whom you would not permit Israel to attack when they arrived from the land of Egypt since they turned away from them and did not eliminate them

God used Ahaziah's visit to Joram to destroy Ahaziah. As soon as he arrived, Ahaziah went out with Joram to attack Nimshi's son Jehu, whom the LORD had appointed to eliminate Ahab's dynasty.

that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!

Verse ConceptsDesire For Deathcrushes

Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.

Verse ConceptsEvildoersEvery Morningwickedness

But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

Verse ConceptsMan's PurposesPeople Destroying Foreign Nationsflexibility

"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I will eliminate from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsOblivionSurvivors DestroyedBabylon Left Desolate

For death comes up through our windows; it has come into our palaces to eliminate children from the streets and young men from the town squares.

Verse ConceptsClimbingRoadsYouthYoung People SufferingThe Fact Of DeathDeath Of A Childjumping

I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."

Verse ConceptsLambsBeing Killed Like An AnimalForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleKilled Like An Animal

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesVoicesCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Verse ConceptsBridegroomBridesBanishmentMillstonesVoicesCessationStopping RejoicingLack Of Rejoicing

Concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You burned this scroll, all the while saying, "Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon will definitely come, destroy this land, and eliminate both people and animals from it?'"

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals KilledKings of judah

The pride of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they plotted evil against her: "Come and let's eliminate her as a nation.' Madmen will also be silenced, and the sword will pursue you.

Verse ConceptsendSilenceLosing Honour

Eliminate from Babylon the one who plants seeds and the one who uses the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor's sword, let each one turn toward his own people and flee to his own land."

Verse ConceptsBabylonSicklesNot SowingNot Reaping What You Sow

I'm determined to oppose that person and make him an example. Proverbs will be written about him when I eliminate him from my people. Then you'll know that I am the LORD."'"

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodMarks On PeopleGod Opposing

I'll eliminate the rebels among you, along with those who are transgressing against me. I'll bring them out of the land where you've lived, but they won't be able to enter the land of Israel. Then you'll know that I am the LORD."

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodPurgingEntering The KingdomBeing Cleansed From Sin

therefore I am about to stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and eliminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "I'm going to raise my clenched fist in Edom's direction and eliminate every single human being and animal from Edom! I'm going to turn everything into a wasteland, starting with Teman, and Dedan will fall by violence!

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodBoth Men And Animals Killed

I'll pour out my anger on Sin, Egypt's strong fortress, and I'll eliminate the gangs in Thebes.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With The Nations

“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate dangerous animals in the land, so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

Verse ConceptsForestsCovenant, God's with NoahSafetySleep, PhysicalShowersBlessing In The WildernessWild Beasts SubduedSleeping Peacefully

I'm turning Mount Seir over to ruin and desolation. I'm going to eliminate everyone who comes and goes,

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming Empty

In that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edomand those who understandfrom the hill country of Esau?

The Lord has issued an order concerning you:There will be no offspringto carry on your name.I will eliminate the carved idol and cast imagefrom the house of your gods;I will prepare your grave,for you are contemptible.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadFalse ReligionExile, in assyriaTemples, HeathenDestruction Of Satan's WorksNames Blotted OutAbandoning Idols

"I am against you," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I will send your chariots up in smoke. A sword will devour your young lions, I will eliminate your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

Verse ConceptsChariotsSmokeCessationDestroying ChariotsKilling Wild AnimalsDeliverance From Lions

"I'll consume both human beings and animals I'll consume the birds of the sky, the fish in the sea, and the wicked along with their sin, when I eliminate human beings from the land," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofBoth Men And Animals KilledMan's Sinful NatureWeedFish

A strange people will inhabit Ashdod, and I will eliminate the arrogance of Philistia.

Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenMixing PeopleGod Opposes The ProudRace

"At that time," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "I will eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will not be remembered anymore. I will also force both prophet and demon to leave the land.

Verse ConceptsImpurityNames Blotted OutAbandoning IdolsProphets Of Other Gods

And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingAlways Being ActivePersistencerecognition

Bible Theasaurus

Annihilate (35 instances)
Eliminate (48 instances)
Eradicate (4 instances)
Excrete (1 instance)
Extinguish (12 instances)
Reject (99 instances)

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