Thematic Bible: Characterized as


Thematic Bible





everything that can withstand fire—you are to pass through fire, and it will be clean. It must still be purified with the purification water. Anything that cannot withstand fire, pass through the water.

He spread a cloud as a covering
and gave a fire to light up the night.
Verse ConceptsCoveringDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalGod Appearing In Fireclouds


As smoke is blown away,
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
Verse ConceptsSmokeWicked Described AsMeltingWaxDriven From God's PresenceThe Lord Will Drive Them OutThe Presence Of GodsmokinganniversarySmoke Used Poetically

as fire kindles the brushwood,
and fire causes water to boil—
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at Your presence!
Verse ConceptsTrembling

Even the wild animals cry out to You,
for the river beds are dried up,
and fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness.


> Verse ConceptsdrynessWaters Drying UpBurning PlantsBrooks

He will not escape from the darkness;
flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.
Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GoddrynessMouthsPeople WitheredScorchingThe Outer DarknessEscaping EvilOuter Darkness

Sheol; a childless womb;
earth, which is never satisfied with water;
and fire, which never says, “Enough!”
Verse ConceptsBarren WomenCoveting, prohibition ofBarrennessGrave, TheSheolAttitudes To BarrennessDry PlacesShortagesThe Fact Of Deathadvertisingclosure

So he went out and caught 300 foxes. He took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. Then he ignited the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the piles of grain and the standing grain as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

The form of the living creatures was like the appearance of burning coals of fire and torches. Fire was moving back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, with lightning coming out of it. Verse ConceptsAppearances of

Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the high priest’s courtyard. He was sitting with the temple police, warming himself by the fire. Verse ConceptsWarming



You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism





And because they did not think it worthwhile to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, disputes, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, read more.
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know full well God's just sentence-that those who practice such things deserve to die-they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this. Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByAvoid SorceryGod ForbiddingSorcery

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

Then I said, “What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies? Verse ConceptsReproachFear God!


So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. Verse ConceptsBeing Born In SinAtheism, Evidence AgainstForeigners Included In The LawWithout The LawGentilesDoing The Right ThingPositive ThinkingMoralitylawconscience

Sustain me with raisins;
refresh me with apricots,
for I am lovesick.
Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature Of

The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?”

Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the desert.” Verse ConceptsSummerRiding DonkeysSummer FruitTired In Flight

On the seventh day, when the king was feeling good from the wine, Ahasuerus commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who personally served him, Verse ConceptsMerrinessChamberlainsSeven PeopleThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7Drunk Individuals

A feast is prepared for laughter,
and wine makes life happy,
and money is the answer for everything.
Verse ConceptsEffect Of WineMoney As ProtectionBeauty And Self WorthBeing Happy And Enjoying Lifeeverythingmakeupanswers

How lovely and beautiful they will be!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine, the young women.
Verse ConceptsAlcoholAttractionEffect Of WineWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Naturefruitfulness

But the grapevine said to them,
“Should I stop giving my wine
that cheers both God and man,
and rule over trees?”
Verse ConceptsAlcoholEffect Of WineHuman Comfort


A sword is against his horses and chariots
and against all the foreigners among them,
and they will be like women.
A sword is against her treasuries,
and they will be plundered.
Verse ConceptsChariotsBabylonPowerlessnessMixed MultitudeEffeminacyDestroying ChariotsWeak Women

On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her. Verse ConceptsHand Of GodPowerlessnessEffeminacyGod's HandWaving The HandGroups TremblingWeak WomenTerror Of GodGod's Hands In Opposition

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting;
they sit in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted;
they have become like women.
Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,
her gate bars are shattered.
Verse ConceptsGatesPowerlessnessEffeminacyCessationStopping FightingWeak WomenBurning CitiesNo Strength LeftWomen's Strength

Look, your troops are like women among you;
the gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies.
Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
Verse ConceptsFeeblenessPowerlessnessEffeminacyThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesWeak WomenLocks And BarsWomen's Strength


י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.
You were such a friend to me.
Your love for me was more wonderful
than the love of women.
Verse ConceptsGood FriendsTendernessUnhappinessValuesFriendship, Examples OfThose Who LovedWoman's PlaceFriendship And LoveLosing A FriendTrue FriendsheartbrokenThe Love Of Women


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