![]() ![]() “Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. ![]() You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you.Īnd what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the LORD completely destroyed them “Know therefore today that it is the LORD your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places īut repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. “One from Jacob shall have dominion, And will destroy the remnant from the city.” So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. “As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?” Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. VARIOUS OCCURRENCES OF THE WORD אָבַד,ʾābad IN THE O.T. Meaning: perish, destroy, ruin Strong’s #: H6.This mistake is far too common and unwarranted. ![]() So, the conditionalists must be careful not to read into the texts what is not there and assume that the words perish and destroy automatically mean the person ceases to exist after death and in the final judgment. It doesn’t mean they cease to be in the afterlife. So much of what is said in these verses is from the perspective of people on earth, looking at how the wicked have perished and are no longer with them. Though annihilationists frequently insert that particular meaning into many verses, to do so is not justified. In none of the verses I examined does the destruction of people mean that they don’t exist in the afterlife or as a final judgment. Physical/spiritual death, approximately 17 references.Pysical death, apporoxiately 69 references.28:16, Coveting cherub (Satan) destoyed, yet he still exists Here is a brief summary of what I found in my analysis. I did not cite every listing since 184 would be too many, particularly when many of the contexts don’t deal with people. Context always determines the meaning.īelow is a table representing the verses where the word is used as they relate to people. It is translated into English, using the NASB, into such words as annihilate, destroy, destruction, lost, perish, ruin, vanished, etc. The Hebrew word אָבַד,ʾābad occurs 184 times in the Old Testament. ![]()
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