Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Chains » Used to confine prisoners
God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seems good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seems ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee; where it seems good and convenient for thee to go, go there.
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the guards before the door that kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shone in the prison, and he smote Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Then the tribunal came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded to know who he was and what he had done.
For this cause therefore I have called for you, to see you and to speak with you: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;
Dearth » Spiritual
The poor and needy seek the waters that are not; their tongue fails for thirst; I the LORD will hear them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their glory died of hunger, and their multitude dried up of thirst.
God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water;
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf falls and as a garden that has no water.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Rebellion » Against God, condemned
God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Woe to the sons that leave, saith the LORD, to make counsel, but not of me; to cover themselves with a covering, and not by my spirit, adding sin unto sin!
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see and do not see; they have ears to hear and do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
For rebellion is the sin of witchcraft, and to break the word of the Lord is iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected thee from being king.
and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion thought to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou art a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, for thou didst not leave them.
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to rebellious Gentiles that have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have rebelled against me, even unto this very day.
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds.
Rebellion against God » They who are guilty of » Impoverished for
God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The poor and needy seek the waters that are not; their tongue fails for thirst; I the LORD will hear them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their glory died of hunger, and their multitude dried up of thirst.
God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water;
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf falls and as a garden that has no water.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.