Deuteronomy 9:3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 10:10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 13:15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you; (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 28:63 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry." (WEB ASV NAS)

Deuteronomy 31:3 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. (KJV ASV WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said,'Destroy!' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! (KJV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 7:12 Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 9:24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 11:20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 22:33 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 24:8 "'I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 6:4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 6:5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Judges 20:21 The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Judges 20:25 Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Judges 20:35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 21:11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ruth 4:6 And the redeemer saith, 'I am not able to redeem 'it' for myself, lest I destroy mine inheritance; redeem for thyself -- thou -- my right of redemption, for I am not able to redeem.' (YLT)

1 Samuel 6:5 And ye shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that destroy the land, and give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. (DBY NIV)

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 15:18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said,'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 23:10 Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 24:21 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 26:9 David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 1:14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" (See NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 11:1 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 11:25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab,'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him." (See NIV)

2 Samuel 14:7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say,'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 14:11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 20:19 I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 20:20 Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 21:5 They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 22:38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn again until they were consumed. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. (KJV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 9:21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 Kings 13:34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Kings 16:12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 18:5 and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water and to all the torrents, perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, so that we may not have to destroy some of our beasts. (DBY)

2 Kings 8:19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live." But Jehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 11:1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 13:17 He said, "Open the window eastward;" and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" and he shot. He said, "Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them." (See NAS NIV)

2 Kings 13:23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 18:25 Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me,'Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 19:18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 24:2 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 12:7 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 12:12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. The ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish. (Root in WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 21:7 However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 22:7 and from God hath been the destruction of Ahaziah, to come unto Joram: and in his coming he hath gone out with Jehoram unto Jehu son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. (See RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 22:10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 24:23 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 25:16 It happened, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to make haste: beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 6:12 and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 9:14 shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? (See NIV)

Esther 3:6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the Mordecai's people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 3:9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 3:13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Esther 4:8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Esther 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Esther 8:5 She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 8:11 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 9:24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. (KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (KJV WBS)

Job 8:18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying,'I have not seen you.' (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Job 10:8 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 14:19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 19:26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 5:6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. (KJV WBS)

Psalms 17:9 From the wicked that destroy me, my deadly enemies, who compass me about. (DBY)

Psalms 18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine e