Deuteronomy 13:16

Modern English Version

You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever. It must not be rebuilt.

Cross References

Exodus 22:19

Whoever has relations with a beast must surely be put to death.

Isaiah 17:1

The oracle of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city; it shall be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin; a palace of strangers is a city no longer; it shall never be built.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her towns will be burned with fire. Then Israel will be heir to those who were his heirs, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place to spread nets upon. You shall be built no more, for I the Lord have spoken, says the Lord God.

Micah 1:6

Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the field for the planting of vineyards. I will dump her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

Deuteronomy 7:25

You must burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You must not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take any of it, lest you be snared by them, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:26

You shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become cursed like it, but you must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.

Joshua 6:21

They destroyed all that was in the city: man and woman, young and old, and oxen, sheep, and donkey with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 6:24

They burned the city and everything in it with fire. Only the silver, the gold, the bronze and iron articles they gave to the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 6:26

At that time Joshua made them swear, “Cursed before the Lord will be the man who arises and rebuilds this city of Jericho. He will establish it at the cost of his firstborn and erect its gates at the cost of his youngest child.”

Joshua 8:28

Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day.