Haller's Concordance: DESTROY
- He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. Gen. 6:7
- He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth. Gen. 6:13
- Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed. Gen. 6:17
- For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth. Gen. 7:4
- And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done. Gen. 8:21
- And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. Gen. 9:15
- And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked? Gen. 18:23
- What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. Gen. 18:28
- And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty. Gen. 18:29
- Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord: What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty. Gen. 18:31
- I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten. Gen. 18:32
- For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them. Gen. 19:13
- So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest. Gen. 19:14
- And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken. Gen. 19:21
- Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape. Gen. 32:8
- And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty. Gen. 41:31
- And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt. Ex. 12:13
- And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine? Ex. 16:3
- And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven. Ex. 17:14
- And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy. Ex. 23:23
- Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. Ex. 23:24
- I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee: Ex. 23:27
- Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. Ex. 32:10
- Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people. Ex. 32:12
- That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way. Ex. 33:3
- And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee. Ex. 33:5
- But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves: Ex. 34:13
- And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place. Lev. 14:45
- The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them: I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people. Lev. 20:6
- And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people. Lev. 23:30
- And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be desolate. Lev. 26:22
- I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. Lev. 26:30
- And I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof. Lev. 26:32
- Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites: Num. 4:18
- Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them. Num. 16:21
- Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground, Num. 16:45
- But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities. Num. 21:2
- He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab. Num. 22:4
- Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city. Num. 24:19
- Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal. Num. 25:11
- Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places, Num. 33:52
- You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us. Dt. 1:27
- I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you, Dt. 4:26
- Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers. Dt. 4:31
- To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day. Dt. 4:38
- That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken. Dt. 6:19
- And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them: Dt. 7:2
- For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee. Dt. 7:4
- But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. Dt. 7:5
- And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve. Dt. 7:10
- If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them? Dt. 7:17
- Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves. Dt. 7:20
- He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee. Dt. 7:22
- And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them. Dt. 7:24
- Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee. Dt. 9:3
- Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this. Dt. 9:14
- And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened: Dt. 9:25
- And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand. Dt. 9:26
- And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee. Dt. 10:10
- The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you. Dt. 11:23
- Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree: Dt. 12:2
- Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places. Dt. 12:3
- Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle. Dt. 13:15
- For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming. Dt. 18:12
- The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast forsaken me. Dt. 28:20
- And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee. Dt. 28:51
- And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant: Dt. 29:21
- The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. Dt. 31:3
- And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings of the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them. Dt. 31:4
- And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the living God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before your sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite. Josu. 3:10
- And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few? Josu. 7:3
- And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began. Josu. 7:7
- Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness. Josu. 7:12
- And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands. Josu. 8:7
- They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel. Josu. 9:24
- And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day. Josu. 13:13
- Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy hearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if so be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as he promised me. Josu. 14:12
- But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in Jerusalem until this present day. Josu. 15:63
- And the saying pleased all that heard it. And the children of Israel praised God, and they no longer said that they would go up against them, and fight, and destroy the land of their possession. Josu. 22:33
- The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you. Josu. 23:5
- Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you. Josu. 23:13
- Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and all things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the evils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you, Josu. 23:15
- If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you. Josu. 24:20
- And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the hill country: but was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they had many chariots armed with scythes. Judg. 1:19
- But the sons of Benjamin did not destroy the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem: and the Jebusite hath dwelt with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this present day. Judg. 1:21
- Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them. Judg. 1:27
- But after Israel was grown strong, he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them. Judg. 1:28
- Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin. Judg. 2:3
- I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died: Judg. 2:21
- The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly destroy them, neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue. Judg. 2:23
- That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar: Judg. 6:25
- He said, therefore, to them also: When I shall return a conqueror in peace, I will destroy this tower. Judg. 8:9
- And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philistines by night, and destroy them till the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thy eyes. And the priest said: Let us draw near hither unto God. 1 Ki. 14:36
- Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1 Ki. 15:3
- And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec. 1 Ki. 15:6
- And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that was beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile, and good for nothing, that they destroyed. 1 Ki. 15:9
- And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a report, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for my sake: 1 Ki. 23:10
- Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from the house of my father. 1 Ki. 24:21
- And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith: Deliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir: and they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my husband no name, nor remainder upon the earth. 2 Ki. 14:7
- And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of all that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. 2 Ki. 14:16
- Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord? 2 Ki. 20:19
- And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy. 2 Ki. 20:20
- And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel. 2 Ki. 21:5
- My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them. 2 Ki. 22:41
- And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite. 2 Ki. 24:16
- Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day. 3 Ki. 9:21
- And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it. 3 Ki. 22:11
- And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones. 4 Ki. 3:19
- But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always. 4 Ki. 8:19
- And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from Achab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the meanest in Israel. 4 Ki. 9:8
- Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live. Now Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. 4 Ki. 10:19
- And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and he would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present time. 4 Ki. 13:23
- But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places. 4 Ki. 15:4
- Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it. 4 Ki. 18:25
- And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets. 4 Ki. 24:2
- And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac. 2 Par. 12:7
- And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it. 2 Par. 18:10
- For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of them, they turned also against one another, and destroyed one another. 2 Par. 20:23
- But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever. 2 Par. 21:7
- For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come to Joram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son of Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab. 2 Par. 22:7
- And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to resist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius have made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with. 1 Esd. 6:12
- For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations which could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes. Jud. 3:13
- Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle, set guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and thou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out they will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is situate in the mountains, to be impregnable. Jud. 7:9
- And when you shall know that they are fleeing, go after them securely, for the Lord will destroy them under your feet. Jud. 14:5
- And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus. Esther 3:6
- Were sent by the king's messengers to all provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods. Esther 3:13
- And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance. Esther 13:15
- They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar, Esther 14:9
- Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us. Esther 14:11
- And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil. Esther 8:11
- For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and destroy them; and had cast Phur, that is, the lot. Esther 9:24
- The nations that were assembled are they that endeavoured to destroy the name of the Jews. Esther 10:8
- And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off? Job 6:9
- Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. Job 14:19
- Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor. Ps. 5:6
- Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger. Ps. 8:2
- May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things. Ps. 12:3
- Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men. Ps. 21:10
- Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts. Ps. 28:3
- Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up. Ps. 28:5
- Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire. Ps. 46:9
- Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living. Ps. 52:5
- But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath. Ps. 78:38
- They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. Ps. 83:4
- And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them. Ps. 94:23
- And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. Ps. 106:23
- They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them. Ps. 106:34
- The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies. Ps. 119:95
- And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. Ps. 143:12
- The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. Ps. 145:20
- The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. Ps. 146:9
- So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors. Pr. 1:19
- The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Pr. 1:32
- But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul: Pr. 6:32
- The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them. Pr. 11:3
- The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow. Pr. 15:25
- A just king setteth up the land: a covetous man shall destroy it. Pr. 29:4
- Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings. Pr. 31:3
- A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build. Eccl. 3:3
- Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands. Eccl. 5:6
- Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart. Eccl. 7:7
- Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our vineyard hath flourished. Cant. 2:15
- Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear. Wis. 11:20
- And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents, Wis. 12:6
- Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. Wis. 12:8
- Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once: Wis. 12:9
- And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land. Wis. 16:19
- For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee. Sir. 5:9
- And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness. Sir. 6:3
- For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked. Sir. 6:4
- Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance. Sir. 9:6
- There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect of person he will destroy himself. Sir. 20:24
- Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not? Sir. 22:33
- But God will not leave off his mercy, and he will not destroy, nor abolish his own works, neither will he cut up by the roots the offspring of his elect: and he will not utterly take away the seed of him that loveth the Lord. Sir. 47:24
- For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew. Sir. 49:9
- And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. Isa. 1:28
- As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps. Isa. 3:12
- And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day. Isa. 9:14
- But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. Isa. 10:7
- To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. Isa. 13:5
- Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Isa. 13:9
- And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord. Isa. 14:22
- So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder. Isa. 14:25
- He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof. Isa. 23:11
- And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with which all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations. Isa. 25:7
- His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that was in the jaws of the people. Isa. 30:28
- The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment. Isa. 32:7
- And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isa. 36:10
- I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once. Isa. 42:14
- Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee. Isa. 49:17
- And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor? Isa. 51:13
- Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created the killer to destroy. Isa. 54:16
- Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole. Isa. 65:8
- Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant. Jer. 1:10
- For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy. Jer. 4:27
- Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's. Jer. 5:10
- And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest. Jer. 5:17
- Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses. Jer. 6:5
- For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets. Jer. 9:21
- But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy that nation, saith the Lord. Jer. 12:17
- And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them. Jer. 13:14
- And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. Jer. 15:3
- Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am weary of entreating thee. Jer. 15:6
- Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them. Jer. 17:18
- I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. Jer. 18:7
- But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them. Jer. 18:23
- And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth. Jer. 19:7
- ¤ Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord. Jer. 23:1
- Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. Jer. 25:9
- And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord. Jer. 31:28
- Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda. Jer. 44:11
- Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land. Jer. 45:4
- Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the waves thereof shall be moved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city, and its inhabitants. Jer. 46:8
- Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation. Jer. 49:20
- And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and princes from thence, saith the Lord. Jer. 49:38
- Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land. Jer. 50:16
- Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have commanded thee. Jer. 50:21
- Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they may go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way, and make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left. Jer. 50:26
- Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation. Jer. 50:27
- And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the day of her affliction. Jer. 51:2
- Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army. Jer. 51:3
- Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. Jer. 51:11
- Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: Jer. 51:20
- Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever. Jer. 51:62
- Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men out of the midst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my chosen men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of Juda. Lam. 1:15
- Heth. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he hath stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: and the bulwark hath mourned, and the wall hath been destroyed together. Lam. 2:8
- Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. Lam. 3:36
- Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. Lam. 3:66
- I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread. Ezec. 5:16
- And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places. Ezec. 6:3
- Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house. Ezec. 9:6
- And the slaughter being ended I was left; and I fell upon my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem? Ezec. 9:8
- Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it. Ezec. 14:13
- Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it: Ezec. 14:17
- For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast, Ezec. 14:21
- And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace. Ezec. 16:39
- And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and thou shalt say: O sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and to glitter, Ezec. 21:28
- Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness. Ezec. 22:27
- And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none. Ezec. 22:30
- Therefore behold I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee to be the spoil of nations, and will cut thee off from among the people, and destroy thee out of the lands, and break thee in pieces: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 25:7
- Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will stretch forth my hand upon the Philistines, and will kill the killers, and will destroy the remnant of the sea coast. Ezec. 25:16
- And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock. Ezec. 26:4
- And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms. Ezec. 26:9
- They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters. Ezec. 26:12
- In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come. Ezec. 30:9
- He and his people with him, the strongest of nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords upon Egypt: and shall fill the land with the slain. Ezec. 30:11
- Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt. Ezec. 30:13
- And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria. Ezec. 30:14
- I will destroy also all the beasts thereof that were beside the great waters: and the foot of man shall trouble them no more, neither shall the hoof of beasts trouble them. Ezec. 32:13
- I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 35:4
- Therefore thou shalt devour men no more nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 36:14
- And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to the vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face. Ezec. 43:3
- After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will tell the solution to the king. Dan. 2:24
- And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break, and destroy all these. Dan. 2:40
- And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you. Dan. 13:59
- And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him. Dan. 4:23
- And they came to the king, and said: Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy thee and thy house. Dan. 14:28
- And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the saints, Dan. 8:24
- And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. Dan. 9:26
- And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain. Dan. 11:26
- And at the time prefixed the king of the south shall fight against him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great navy, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass through. Dan. 11:40
- And tidings out of the east, and out of the north, shall trouble him: and he shall come with a great multitude to destroy and slay many. Dan. 11:44
- And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her. Osee 2:12
- And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure. Osee 2:18
- Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars. Osee 10:2
- I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the city. Osee 11:9
- But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. Amso 6:14
- Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. Amso 9:8
- Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? Abd. 1:8
- And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will take away thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots. Mic. 5:10
- And I will destroy the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strong holds, Mic. 5:11
- And I will destroy thy graven things, and thy statues, out of the midst of thee: and thou shalt no more adore the works of thy hands. Mic. 5:13
- And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced. Nah. 1:14
- ¤ He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly. Nah. 2:1
- I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord. Soph. 1:3
- And I will stretch out my hand upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and I will destroy out of this place the remnant of Baal, and the names of the wardens of the temples with the priests: Soph. 1:4
- Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O nation of reprobates: the word of the Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy thee, so that there shall not be an inhabitant. Soph. 2:5
- And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert. Soph. 2:13
- And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and will destroy the strength of the kingdom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the chariot, and him that rideth therein: and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. Agg. 2:22
- And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines. Zach. 9:6
- And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles, and his power shall be from sea to sea, and from the rivers even to the end of the earth. Zach. 9:10
- And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand. Zach. 11:6
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zach. 12:9
- And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall be remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the unclean spirit out of the earth. Zach. 13:2
- They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils. 1 Ma. 3:20
- And that he should send an army against them to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away the memory of them from that place. 1 Ma. 3:35
- And he sent with them forty thousand men, and seven thousand horsemen: to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, according to the king's orders. 1 Ma. 3:39
- And Judas, and his brethren, saw that evils were multiplied, and that the armies approached to their borders: and they knew the orders the king had given to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them. 1 Ma. 3:42
- And behold the nations are come together against us, to destroy us: thou knowest what they intend against us. 1 Ma. 3:52
- And Judas said: Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be ready against the morning, that you may fight with these nations that are assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary. 1 Ma. 3:58
- And now let us cry to heaven, and the Lord will have mercy on us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this army before our face this day: 1 Ma. 4:10
- And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them. 1 Ma. 5:2
- And the Gentiles that were in Galaad, assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them: and they fled into the fortress of Datheman. 1 Ma. 5:9
- And they sent letters to Judas, and his brethren, saying: The heathens that are round about are gathered together against us to destroy us: 1 Ma. 5:10
- Yea, and that they were kept shut up in the rest of the cities of Galaad, and that they had appointed to bring their army on the morrow near to these cities, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day. 1 Ma. 5:27
- But now I remember the evils that I did in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause. 1 Ma. 6:12
- And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them. 1 Ma. 6:19
- And the king sent Nicanor, one of his principal lords, who was a great enemy to Israel: and he commanded him to destroy the people. 1 Ma. 7:26
- Even so destroy this army in our sight today and let the rest know that he hath spoken ill against thy sanctuary: and judge thou him according to his wickedness. 1 Ma. 7:42
- And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy them: and they had knowledge thereof, 1 Ma. 8:9
- Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month, Alcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be thrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he began to destroy. 1 Ma. 9:54
- Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan's company. 1 Ma. 12:49
- Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said: 1 Ma. 12:53
- ¤ Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering together a very great army to invade the land of Juda, and to destroy it. 1 Ma. 13:1
- I will avenge then my nation and the sanctuary, and our children, and wives: for all the heathens are gathered together to destroy us out of mere malice. 1 Ma. 13:6
- And after this, Tryphon entered within the country, to destroy it: and they went about by the way that leadeth to Ador: and Simon and his army marched to every place whithersoever they went. 1 Ma. 13:20
- And Simon being moved, did not destroy them but yet he cast them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein there had been idols, and then he entered into it with hymns, blessing the Lord: 1 Ma. 13:47
- And their enemies desired to tread down and destroy their country, and to stretch forth their hands against their holy places. 1 Ma. 14:31
- And his heart was lifted up, and he designed to make himself master of the country, and he purposed treachery against Simon and his sons, to destroy them. 1 Ma. 16:13
- For, said he, they trust in their weapons, and in their boldness: but we trust in the Almighty Lord, who at a beck can utterly destroy both them that come against us, and the whole world. 2 Ma. 8:18
- And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians. 2 Ma. 9:15
- And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him. Mt. 2:13
- Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Mt. 5:17
- And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell. Mt. 10:28
- And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. Mt. 12:14
- And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and after three days to rebuild it. Mt. 26:61
- Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God. Mk. 1:24
- And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace. Mk. 3:4
- And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. Mk. 3:6
- And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us. Mk. 9:22
- Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine. Mk. 11:18
- What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Mk. 12:9
- We heard him say, I Will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands. Mk. 14:58
- Saying: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. Lk. 4:34
- Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy? Lk. 6:9
- The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went into another town. Lk. 9:56
- And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him. Lk. 19:47
- He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid. Lk. 20:16
- Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up. Jn. 2:19
- The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly. Jn. 10:10
- For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us. Acts 6:14
- Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law. Rom. 3:31
- For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Rom. 14:15
- Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. Rom. 14:20
- For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject. 1 Cor. 1:19
- But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are. 1 Cor. 3:17
- Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body. 1 Cor. 6:13
- And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him 2 Th. 2:8
- Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil: Heb. 2:14
- There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver. Jas. 4:12
- He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 1 Jn. 3:8
- I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not. Jude 1:5
- And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth. Apoc. 11:18
- Wherefore I beseech disiring thee, forgeue me Lord, forgeue me: and destroy me not together with myne iniquities, neither reserue thou for euer, being angrie, euils for me, neither damme me into the lowest places of the earth: because thou art Lord, God, I say, of the penitent: Man. 1:13
- say he: strike: they strike: say he, destroy, they destroy: say he build, they build. 3 Esd. 4:8
- Therfore the Lord also, whose name is inuocated there, destroy euery king & nation, that shal extend their hand to hinder or to handle il the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem. 3 Esd. 6:33
- Wilt not thou be wrath with vs to destroy vs, til there be no roote left nor our name? 3 Esd. 8:89
- Al nations did I destroy before their face, & in the East I dissipated the peoples of two prouinces Tyre and Sidon, and I slew al their aduersaries. 4 Esd. 1:11
- And agane in time thou broughst in the floud vpon inhabitantes of the world, and didst destroy them. (Gen. 7) 4 Esd. 3:9
- because I saw how thou bearest with their sinne, and didst spare them that did impiously, and didst destroy thine owne people, and preserue thine enimies, and didst not signifie it. 4 Esd. 3:30
- If then thou wilt destroy him that is made with so great labours: it is easie by thy commandment to be ordayned, that also which was made, might be preserued. 4 Esd. 8:14
- Neither be thou willing to destroy them that haue had the maners of beastes: but respect them that haue taught thy law gloriously. 4 Esd. 8:29
- Which were likened to the flame, and he shal destroy them without labour by the law that was likened to the fyre. 4 Esd. 13:38
- In shal come to passe therefore, when he shal begine to destroy the multitude of these nations, that are gathered, he shal protect them that haue ouercome the people: 4 Esd. 13:49
- I wil send in euils vpon thee, widowhood, pouertie, and famine, and sword, and pestilence, to destroy thy houses by violation, and death, and glorie of thy vertue. 4 Esd. 15:49
- And in the passage they shal beate against the idle citie, and shal destroy some portion of thy land, and shal deface part of thy glorie, againe returning to Babylon ourethrowen. 4 Esd. 15:60
- Thy children they shal lead captiue, & shal haue thy goodes for a praye, and the glorie of thy face they shal destroy. 4 Esd. 15:63
- For by famine manie that inhabit the earth shal dye, and the sword shal destroy the rest that remained aliue of the famine, 4 Esd. 16:23