That would help explain the biblical references to the fiery destruction of the two cities.

The sky was brilliant blue above, no trace of the fiery destruction down in my realm.

The same goes for the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Fools, you would burn me yet again, even when your own hour of fiery destruction is nigh.

He then took a break until 4 February 1917, when he shared in the fiery destruction of a reconnaissance plane.

Then he walked slowly toward the Land Rover behind a steady spray of fiery destruction.

The world is doomed to fiery destruction in not many falans.

But in this poignant instance, imminent relief turned to fiery destruction.

That one should cause fiery destruction, seemed absurd.

It refers to a fiery destruction of life so total as to require almost reverential use.