Numbers 31:10

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They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 25:16 : 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps– twelve princes according to their clans.
  • Josh 6:24 : 24 But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD’s house.
  • 1 Sam 30:1 : 1 David Defeats the Amalekites On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.
  • 1 Kgs 9:16 : 16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
  • Rev 18:8 : 8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:7-9
    3 verses
    84%

    7They fought against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

    8They killed the kings of Midian in addition to those slain– Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba– five Midianite kings. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Num 31:11
    81%

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Deut 3:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.

    7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

  • Judg 20:48
    75%

    48The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

    35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

  • Josh 11:11-14
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    75%

    11They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword– no one who breathed remained– and burned Hazor.

    12Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

    13But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, except for Hazor; it was the only one Joshua burned.

    14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

  • Josh 6:24
    75%

    24But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD’s house.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

    16You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    74%

    19They burned down the God’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.

  • 1 Sam 30:3
    74%

    3When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

  • Gen 34:29
    74%

    29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    74%

    12The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.

  • Ps 78:63
    73%

    63Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
    73%

    25They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • Judg 6:4
    73%

    4They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

  • Judg 21:11
    73%

    11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.

  • Num 31:17
    73%

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

  • Num 21:2
    73%

    2So Israel made a vow to the LORD and said,“If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities.”

  • Num 25:17
    73%

    17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,

  • Josh 6:21
    73%

    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    73%

    1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

  • Ps 83:9
    73%

    9Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!

  • Judg 1:8
    73%

    8The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

  • Ezek 23:47
    73%

    47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

  • 2 Kgs 10:26
    72%

    26They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

  • Num 33:52
    72%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

  • Deut 20:14
    72%

    14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.

  • Josh 10:37
    72%

    37They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

  • Deut 7:5
    72%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • Deut 31:4
    72%

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

  • Jer 52:13
    72%

    13He burned down the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

  • Num 31:2
    72%

    2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”

  • Ps 21:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

    10You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    72%

    21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

  • Josh 10:39
    72%

    39They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

  • Deut 12:3
    72%

    3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
    71%

    9He burned down the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

  • Josh 10:20
    71%

    20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

  • Num 21:28
    71%

    28For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

  • Josh 10:30
    71%

    30The LORD handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel put the sword to all who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.