10 Bible Verses about Swallowing

Most Relevant Verses

Exodus 7:12

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.

Lamentations 2:5

ה HeThe Lord is like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.

Lamentations 2:2

ב BetWithout compassion the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

Exodus 15:12

You stretched out Your right hand,
and the earth swallowed them.

Numbers 16:30

But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”

Numbers 16:32

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.

Numbers 26:10

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

Deuteronomy 11:6

and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

Numbers 16:34

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled because they thought, “The earth may swallow us too!”

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up!
Now they are among the nations
like discarded pottery.

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