After ¹  he had destroyed ²  seven nations ³  in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance. ⁴ 

But ¹  these men, ²  like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed ³  – do not understand whom ⁴  they are insulting, and consequently ⁵  in their destruction they will be destroyed, ⁶ 

As for the Avvites ¹  who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites ²  who came from Crete ³  destroyed them and settled down in their place.)

The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic ¹  until they are destroyed.

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ¹  until you have perished.

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

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors ¹  and worshiped instead ²  the gods of the native peoples ³  whom God had destroyed before them.

They burned down the Lord’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. ¹  They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.

and a third of the creatures ¹  living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed. ² 

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! ¹ 

They were destroyed at Endor; ¹  their corpses were like manure ²  on the ground.

The household ¹  of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent ²  of the upright will flourish.

You make my enemies retreat; ¹  I destroy those who hate me.

You make my enemies retreat; ¹  I destroy those who hate me. ² 

Every person ¹  who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed ²  from the people.’ ³ 

And let us not put Christ ¹  to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes. ² 

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹  under divine judgment, ²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Israel’s power continued to overwhelm ¹  King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with ²  him. ³ 

Zimri destroyed Baasha’s entire family, just as the Lord had predicted to Baasha ¹  through Jehu the prophet.