Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within ¹  the camp until they were all gone.

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer? ¹ 

The worthless idols will be completely eliminated. ¹ 

The last enemy to be eliminated is death.

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community, ¹ 

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” ¹  (This means all foods are clean.) ² 

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, ¹  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew ²  from the ground.

For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army ¹  stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. ² 

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors. ¹ 

Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated ¹  –

I will grant peace in the land so that ¹  you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ²  I will remove harmful animals ³  from the land, and no sword of war ⁴  will pass through your land.

Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land. ¹ 

The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ¹ 

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple.

The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ¹