Commander Destroyer

Famous quotes containing the words commander and/or destroyer:

“...that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 5:8.

Elijah to the king of Israel who has received a letter from the king of Syria looking for someone to cure his commander of leprosy.

“The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.”
—Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–59 B.C.)