They demolished<n id="1" /> the sacred pillar of Baal and<n id="2" /> the temple of Baal; it is used as<n id="3" /> a latrine<n id="4" /> to this very day.

<p class="poetry">He tears me down<n id="1" /> on every side until I perish;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he uproots<n id="3" /> my hope<n id="4" /> like one uproots<n id="5" /> a tree.p>

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city&#8217;s men.p>

<p class="poetry">You counted the houses in Jerusalem,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.<n id="2" />p>

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.<n id="1" />

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.<n id="1" />

He also threatened<n id="1" /> the men of Penuel, warning,<n id="2" /> &#8220;When I return victoriously,<n id="3" /> I will tear down this tower.&#8221;p>

The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

<p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> God will make you a permanent heap of ruins.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will scoop you up<n id="3" /> and remove you from your home;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">O God, break the teeth in their mouths!p> <p class="poetry">Smash the jawbones of the lions, O <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desertp> <p class="poetry">and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> had brought this all aboutp> <p class="poetry">because of his blazing anger.<n id="1" />p>

There are times, Jeremiah,<n id="1" /> when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.<n id="2" />

Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean<n id="1" /> to you.

He must tear down the house,<n id="1" /> its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it<n id="2" /> outside the city to an unclean place.

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> cut down their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and burn up their idols.

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> burn up their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.&#8217;<n id="1" /> But you have disobeyed me.<n id="2" /> Why would you do such a thing?<n id="3" />

That very day Gideon&#8217;s father named him Jerub-Baal,<n id="1" /> because he had said, &#8220;Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.&#8221;p>

He tore down the quarters<n id="1" /> of the male cultic prostitutes in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, where women were weaving shrines<n id="2" /> for Asherah.p>

All the people went and demolished<n id="1" /> the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols.<n id="2" /> They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.