Nation was destroyed of nation, i.e. one part of the people of Israel destroyed the other by civil wars; of which see instances, Jud_9:23, &c.; Jud_12:1, &c. As all the people of Israel are called a nation, so the several tribes and families of them are sometimes called nations, as Gen_17:4Eze_2:3Act_4:27, compared with Psa_2:1.