Lexicon :: Strong's G2690 - katastrephō

Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain[fn] of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the LORD’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

And he said to him, “All right,[fn] I’ll grant your request[fn] about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

He demolished these cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

“All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD demolished in his fierce anger.

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”

“I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl ​— ​wiping it and turning it upside down.

May the God who caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who dares[fn] to harm or interfere with this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out diligently.

He removes mountains without their knowledge,

overturning them in his anger.

If he passes by and throws someone in prison

or convenes a court, who can stop him?

When he withholds water, everything dries up,

and when he releases it, it destroys the land.

He leads priests away barefoot

and overthrows established leaders.

You who tear yourself in anger[fn] —

should the earth be abandoned on your account,

or a rock be removed from its place?

Yet God drags away[fn] the mighty by his power;

when he rises up, they have no assurance of life.

The miner uses a flint tool

and turns up ore from the root of the mountains.

You have repudiated the covenant with your servant;

you have completely dishonored his crown.[fn]

Your land is desolate,

your cities burned down;

foreigners devour your fields

right in front of you —

a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,

the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,

will be like Sodom and Gomorrah

when God overthrew them.

Let that man be like the cities

the LORD demolished without compassion.

Let him hear an outcry in the morning

and a war cry at noontime

“As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.

Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah

and their neighboring towns —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

so no one will live there;

no human being will stay in it even temporarily

as a temporary resident.

The punishment of my dear people

is greater than that of Sodom,

which was overthrown in an instant

without a hand laid on it.

I overthrew some of you

as I[fn] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were like a burning stick

snatched from a fire,

yet you did not return to me —

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished! ”

“I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother’s sword.

Though Edom says, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild[fn] the ruins,” the LORD of Armies says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the LORD has cursed[fn] forever.