Joshua 6:21

Joshua 5 Joshua 7

Joshua 6:21 New International Version (NIV)

²¹They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

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Leviticus 27:28

Leviticus 26 Numbers 1

Leviticus 27:28 New International Version (NIV)

²⁸“‘But nothing that a person owns and devotes^[a] to the Lord—whether a human being or an animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord.

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Leviticus 27:28 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 20:17

Deuteronomy 19 Deuteronomy 21

Deuteronomy 20:17 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁷Completely destroy^[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.

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Deuteronomy 20:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

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Isaiah 13:5

Isaiah 12 Isaiah 14

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⁵They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens—
the Lord and the weapons of his wrath—
to destroy the whole country.

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Isaiah 24:1

Isaiah 23 Isaiah 25

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The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth
and devastate it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter its inhabitants—

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Isaiah 34:2

Isaiah 33 Isaiah 35

Isaiah 34:2 New International Version (NIV)

²The Lord is angry with all nations;
his wrath is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy^[a] them,
he will give them over to slaughter.

Footnotes:

Isaiah 34:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.

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Isaiah 34:5

Isaiah 33 Isaiah 35

Isaiah 34:5 New International Version (NIV)

⁵My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,
the people I have totally destroyed.

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Malachi 4:6

Malachi 3 Matthew 1

Malachi 4:6 New International Version (NIV)

⁶He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”