Thematic Bible: Anger, easily kindled into rage


Thematic Bible



Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.