GOD BURN CITIES FOR DISOBEDIENCE

The Bible describes God bringing fire and desolation to cities as judgment for disobedience, idolatry, and sin, notably in Isaiah 1:7 (desolation/burned with fire), Deuteronomy 13:16 (command to burn idolatrous cities as an offering), Ezekiel 35:4 (turning cities to ruins), and referencing historical examples like Sodom and Gomorrah in 2 Peter 2:6, with symbolic fulfillments in Revelation for Babylon. 

Here are key examples and contexts:

Isaiah 1:7: “Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; foreigners devour your land before you—a desolation overthrown by foreigners”. 

Deuteronomy 13:16

(Commands the Israelites to completely destroy a city that encourages idolatry, gathering all its belongings in the square and burning the city and its spoils as a whole offering to God, making it a ruin forever.) Verse 16 “You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,” Ezekiel 35:4 "I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD". The arrogant one will stumble and fall... I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all around him".  2 Peter 2:6 … if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

See Revelation 18 as well. Describing the complete destruction of "Babylon the Great" by fire, with smoke rising as a sign of irreversible judgment. 

These passages illustrate divine judgment, often through human enemies or natural disasters, resulting in cities being burned, ruined, or turned to ashes as a consequence of persistent wickedness and idolatry.