So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

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

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

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.

I chase my enemies and destroy them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

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

They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them to do.

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

Look, the sovereign Lord is watching the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not completely destroy the family of Jacob,” says the Lord.

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

As for the Avvites who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites who came from Crete 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 until they are destroyed.

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.

The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said, “Destroy!”

The leaders of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

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