'Smash' in the Bible
You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
I see him, but not now;I perceive him, but not near.A star will come from Jacob,and a scepter will arise from Israel.He will smash the forehead of Moaband strike down all the Shethites.
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn up their carved images.
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
"See now that I, indeed I, am he!" says the Lord, "and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.
Lord, bless his possessions,and accept the work of his hands.Smash the loins of his adversaries and enemies,so that they cannot rise again.
Hazael asked, "Why are you crying, my master?" He replied, "Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women."
You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter's jar!'"
O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O Lord!
And now all its carved workThey smash with hatchet and hammers.
Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?
And they will eat your harvest and your food, they will eat your sons and your daughters, they will eat your flock and your herd, they will eat your vine and your fig tree, they will smash with the sword {your fortified cities}, in which you trust.
I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.”
Can anyone smash iron,iron from the north, or bronze?
Tell them the Lord who rules over all says, 'I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter's vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.'
He will smash the sacred pillars of the sun temple in the land of Egypt and burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods.”
Therefore look, the days are coming—this is the Lord’s declaration—when I will send those to him, who will pour him out.They will empty his containersand smash his jars.
You are My battle club,My weapons of war.With you I will smash nations;with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
With you I will smash the horse and its rider;with you I will smash the chariot and its rider.
With you I will smash man and woman;with you I will smash the old man and the youth;with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.
With you I will smash the shepherd and his flock;with you I will smash the farmer and his ox-team.With you I will smash governors and officials.
A fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; for iron crushes and shatters everything, and like iron that smashes, it will crush and smash all the others.
For indeed, the LORD is giving the command and he will smash the large house to rubble and the small house into bits.
Get up and smash them to pieces, daughter of Zion, because I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze! And you will beat many people to pieces, and I will consecrate their dishonest gain to the LORD and their assets to the Lord of the entire earth."
"In that day," says the Lord, "I will destroy your horses from your midst, and smash your chariots.