Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation, because she has vaunted herself against the Lord.

Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

God sent an angel to ravage Jerusalem. As he was doing so, the Lord watched and relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! Stop now!” Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

However, Saul and the army spared Agag, along with the best of the flock, the cattle, the fatlings, and the lambs, as well as everything else that was of value. They were not willing to slaughter them. But they did slaughter everything that was despised and worthless.

The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir and annihilated them. When they had finished off the men of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another.

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.

The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.

Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone must be utterly destroyed.

He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.