Thematic Bible: Blessings


Thematic Bible



The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses. Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCowsGenerosity, God'sGoldSilverAbraham, In SocietyOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesSupplied With MoneyBlessed By GodMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Growth From GodCornGod's CareCareWater IrrigationOrderliness In CreationProvidence, Of God In NatureGod VisitingRiversThe EarthChange And GrowthSpilling Your Seed On The GroundTaking Care Of The Earthprovidingland

Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him. Verse ConceptsCropsSowing And ReapingCultivationOne HundredLiteral PlantingBlessed By GodHundredfold ReturnAgriculturePlanting SeedsFarmingSeedsSowing Seedssowing

And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal. Verse ConceptsAffluenceMoney, Attitudes ToPresent, TheSource Of HonourWealthy People

And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family. Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionHomeTwo To Four MonthsBlessed By God

For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet. Verse ConceptsForty YearsClothingThe Number FortyGod's ProvisionShoes40 To 50 YearsThings Wearing OutGod Led Them Through The Wildernesswandering


He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less. Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockGod Multipling PeopleGod Blesses


The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth. Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleAngels Looking After PeopleAngels Providing ProtectionMay God Bless!

Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan; Verse ConceptsRacial PrejudiceWives, Duties OfIntermarriageOthers SummoningMen's OrdersPeople Who Blessed OthersInterracial Marriage

Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents. Verse ConceptsPeople Who Blessed Others

Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together. Verse ConceptsPeople Who Blessed Others

And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage. Verse ConceptsPeople Who Blessed OthersExamples Of Following God

And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house. Verse ConceptsBenedictionsIndividuals going homeExchange Of IndividualsPeople Who Blessed Otherslent

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said; Verse ConceptsChildren, examples ofSigns Performed By ChristHabitual Getting UpPeople Who Blessed Othersrehabilitation

And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come: Verse ConceptsPeople KissingNosesContact With PeopleBlessed By GodPeople Who Blessed Others

And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.

But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you. Verse ConceptsPeople Of God, In OtBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodcurses

So may it be your pleasure to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you: (for you, O Lord God, have said it,) and may your blessing be on your servant's family line for ever! Verse ConceptsEternal BlessingMay God Bless!DedicationBlessings From God






Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy, Verse ConceptsBeing A Perfect ChristianAssurance Of SalvationFaultlessnessAble To StandBackslidingvulnerability



May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Verse ConceptsGrace Be To You

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. So be it. Verse ConceptsBenedictionsPeople Of God, In NtGrace Be To You



And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing: Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfMultiplyingAbrahamBlessing Through God's PeopleGod Will BlessSource Of HonourMessianic PropheciesBlessing OthersSons Being A Blessing

As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsThe Number TwelveAbraham, Testing And VictoryAnswered PrayerProsperity PromisedGod Multipling PeopleTwelve BeingsBlessed By GodGod Paid Attention To MeSons Being A Blessingfruitfulness

Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing. Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you. Verse ConceptsSalutationsGod With Specific PeopleSpoken Greetingsgabriel

When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him. Verse ConceptsPeople EatingPeople Who Blessed Others

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of ThankfulfnessRiches, Nature OfSittingThankfulnessThanksgivingThanksgiving Before MealsFive ThingsFeeding GroupsReclining To EatThe Disciples ActionsBreaking Of BreadTwo AnimalsGiving Food And DrinkJesus PrayingThanking God For FoodDividing Food

And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people. Verse ConceptsThankfulnessThanksgiving Before MealsSeven ThingsBreaking Of BreadGiving Food And DrinkThanking God For FoodDividing FoodFish

And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread. Verse ConceptsBreaking Of BreadThankfulnessThanksgiving, OfferedThanking God For Food



And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour. Verse ConceptsHourAt The Same TimeThose Jesus HealedFaith And Healing

Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you. And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it.


And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done. Verse ConceptsAffirmationsdoubt, results ofIndecisionMountains RemovedPlucking OutChrist Telling The TruthIn The Heart Of The SeaOther MiraclesFaith Moving MountainsMoving On

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing: To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing? Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsGentiles, In OtConsistencyBlessings, To AbrahamMission, Of IsraelParticipation, In ChristBlessing Through God's People

And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven, Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son, That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them; read more.
And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham; I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;


Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness. Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you: But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you; So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you, Give blessing to those who give you curses, say prayers for those who are cruel to you.




The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself. For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen. The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others. Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.


A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing. Verse ConceptsBeginningReceiving An InheritanceInheritanceMoney Blessings

And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees. Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause. But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. read more.
And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain