"Cut down"

1. Ex. 34: 13
   13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
2. Lev. 26: 30
   30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
3. Num. 13: 23-24
   23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
   24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
4. Deut. 7: 5
   5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
5. Deut. 19: 5
   5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
6. Deut. 20: 19-20
   19 ¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
   20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
7. Josh. 17: 15, 18
   15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
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   18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
8. Judg. 6: 25-26, 28, 30
   25 ¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
   26 And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
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   28 ¶ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
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   30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
9. Judg. 9: 48-49
   48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
   49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
10. 2 Kgs. 6: 4, 6
    4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
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    6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
11. 2 Kgs. 18: 4
    4 ¶ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
12. 2 Kgs. 19: 23
    23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
13. 2 Kgs. 23: 14
    14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
14. 2 Chr. 14: 3
    3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
15. 2 Chr. 15: 16
    16 ¶ And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
16. 2 Chr. 31: 1
    1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
17. 2 Chr. 34: 4, 7
    4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
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    7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
18. Job 8: 12
    12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
19. Job 14: 2, 7
    2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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    7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
20. Job 22: 16, 20
    16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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    20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21. Ps. 37: 2
    2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
22. Ps. 80: 16
    16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
23. Ps. 90: 6
    6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
24. Isa. 9: 10
    10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
25. Isa. 10: 34
    34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
26. Isa. 14: 12
    12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
27. Isa. 18: 5
    5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
28. Isa. 22: 25
    25 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
29. Isa. 37: 24
    24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
30. Jer. 22: 7
    7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
31. Jer. 25: 37
    37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
32. Jer. 46: 23
    23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
33. Jer. 48: 2
    2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
34. Ezek. 6: 6
    6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
35. Ezek. 39: 10
    10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.
36. Nahum 1: 12
    12 Thus saith the Lord; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
37. Zeph. 1: 11
    11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
38. Matt. 21: 8
    8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
39. Mark 11: 8
    8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
40. Luke 13: 7, 9
    7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
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    9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
41. 2 Ne. 19: 10
    10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
42. 2 Ne. 20: 34
    34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
43. 2 Ne. 24: 12
    12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
44. Jacob 5: 44
    44 And thou beheldest that I also cut down that which cumbered this spot of ground, that I might plant this tree in the stead thereof.
45. Hel. 1: 20, 24
    20 Therefore Coriantumr did cut down the watch by the entrance of the city, and did march forth with his whole army into the city, and they did slay every one who did oppose them, insomuch that they did take possession of the whole city.
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    24 And, supposing that their greatest strength was in the center of the land, therefore he did march forth, giving them no time to assemble themselves together save it were in small bodies; and in this manner they did fall upon them and cut them down to the earth.