| Exodus 22:20 | “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction. |
| Leviticus 27:29 | No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. |
| Numbers 21:2 | And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.” |
| Numbers 21:3 | And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah. |
| Numbers 24:20 | Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, “Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction.” |
| Numbers 24:24 | But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.” |
| Deuteronomy 2:34 | And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. |
| Deuteronomy 3:6 | And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children. |
| Deuteronomy 3:6 | And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children. |
| Deuteronomy 7:2 | and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. |
| Deuteronomy 7:26 | And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction. |
| Deuteronomy 7:26 | And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction. |
| Deuteronomy 13:15 | you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. |
| Deuteronomy 20:17 | but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, |
| Joshua 2:10 | For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. |
| Joshua 6:17 | And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. |
| Joshua 6:18 | But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. |
| Joshua 6:18 | But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. |
| Joshua 6:21 | Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword. |
| Joshua 7:12 | Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. |
| Joshua 8:26 | But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction. |
| Joshua 10:1 | As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, |
| Joshua 10:28 | As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho. |
| Joshua 10:35 | And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish. |
| Joshua 10:37 | and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it. |
| Joshua 10:39 | and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king. |
| Joshua 10:40 | So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded. |
| Joshua 11:11 | And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. |
| Joshua 11:12 | And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. |
| Joshua 11:20 | For it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the Lord commanded Moses. |
| Joshua 11:21 | And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities. |
| Judges 1:17 | And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah. |
| Judges 21:11 | This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.” |
| 1 Samuel 15:3 | Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” |
| 1 Samuel 15:8 | And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. |
| 1 Samuel 15:9 | But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. |
| 1 Samuel 15:15 | Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” |
| 1 Samuel 15:18 | And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ |
| 1 Samuel 15:20 | And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord . I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. |
| 1 Samuel 15:21 | But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” |
| 2 Samuel 22:5 | “For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me; |
| 2 Samuel 24:16 | And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. |
| 1 Kings 9:21 | their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction —these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day. |
| 1 Kings 20:42 | And he said to him, “Thus says the Lord , ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.’” |
| 2 Kings 19:11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? |
| 1 Chronicles 4:41 | These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. |
| 1 Chronicles 21:15 | And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
| 2 Chronicles 12:12 | And when he humbled himself the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah. |
| 2 Chronicles 20:23 | For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another. |
| 2 Chronicles 26:16 | But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. |
| 2 Chronicles 32:14 | Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand? |
| Esther 4:7 | and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. |
| Esther 4:8 | Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people. |
| Esther 8:6 | For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” |
| Job 5:21 | You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. |
| Job 5:22 | At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth. |
| Job 21:20 | Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
| Job 30:12 | On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. |
| Psalms 5:9 | For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue. |
| Psalms 18:4 | The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me; |
| Psalms 35:8 | Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction! |
| Psalms 35:8 | Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction! |
| Psalms 35:17 | How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions! |
| Psalms 40:2 | He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. |
| Psalms 52:2 | Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. |
| Psalms 52:7 | “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!” |
| Psalms 55:23 | But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you. |
| Psalms 57:1 | Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. |
| Psalms 91:6 | nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. |
| Psalms 92:7 | that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever; |
| Psalms 107:20 | He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. |
| Proverbs 10:29 | The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers. |
| Proverbs 13:13 | Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded. |
| Proverbs 16:18 | Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. |
| Proverbs 17:19 | Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction. |
| Proverbs 18:12 | Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. |
| Isaiah 10:22 | For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. |
| Isaiah 10:25 | For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. |
| Isaiah 13:6 | Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! |
| Isaiah 14:23 | “And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts. |
| Isaiah 15:5 | My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction; |
| Isaiah 16:4 | let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land, |
| Isaiah 19:18 | In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction. |
| Isaiah 22:4 | Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.” |
| Isaiah 26:14 | They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them. |
| Isaiah 28:22 | Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land. |
| Isaiah 30:28 | his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray. |
| Isaiah 34:2 | For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter. |
| Isaiah 34:5 | For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. |
| Isaiah 37:11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? |
| Isaiah 38:17 | Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. |
| Isaiah 43:28 | Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling. |
| Isaiah 51:19 | These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you? |
| Isaiah 59:7 | Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. |
| Isaiah 60:18 | Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. |
| Jeremiah 4:6 | Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction. |
| Jeremiah 6:1 | Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction. |
| Jeremiah 6:7 | As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me. |
| Jeremiah 17:18 | Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction! |
| Jeremiah 20:8 | For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. |
| Jeremiah 25:9 | behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord , and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. |
| Jeremiah 48:3 | “A voice! A cry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’ |
| Jeremiah 48:5 | For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction. |
| Jeremiah 50:21 | “Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the Lord , and do all that I have commanded you. |
| Jeremiah 50:22 | The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction! |
| Jeremiah 50:26 | Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her. |
| Jeremiah 51:3 | Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army. |
| Jeremiah 51:54 | “A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! |
| Lamentations 2:11 | My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. |
| Lamentations 3:47 | panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction; |
| Lamentations 3:48 | my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Lamentations 4:10 | The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Ezekiel 5:16 | when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread. |
| Ezekiel 32:9 | “I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. |
| Daniel 8:24 | His power shall be great—but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints. |
| Daniel 11:16 | But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand. |
| Daniel 11:44 | But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. |
| Hosea 7:13 | Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. |
| Hosea 8:4 | They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. |
| Hosea 9:6 | For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents. |
| Joel 1:15 | Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. |
| Amos 5:9 | who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress. |
| Amos 5:9 | who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress. |
| Micah 2:10 | Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction. |
| Habakkuk 1:3 | Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. |
| Habakkuk 2:17 | The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them. |
| Zechariah 14:11 | And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security. |
| Malachi 4:6 | And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.” |
| Matthew 7:13 | “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. |
| John 17:12 | While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. |
| Romans 9:22 | What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, |
| 1 Corinthians 5:5 | you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. |
| Philippians 1:28 | and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. |
| Philippians 3:19 | Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:3 | While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. |
| 2 Thessalonians 1:9 | They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:3 | Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, |
| 1 Timothy 6:9 | But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. |
| 2 Peter 2:1 | But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. |
| 2 Peter 2:3 | And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. |
| 2 Peter 2:12 | But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, |
| 2 Peter 3:7 | But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. |
| 2 Peter 3:16 | as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. |
| Revelation 17:8 | The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. |
| Revelation 17:11 | As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction. |