Thematic Bible: Great


Thematic Bible



As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.


Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.




And they will sing of the ways of the Lord,
For great is the glory of the Lord.


The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods.



For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

“But they, in their own kingdom,
With Your great goodness which You gave them,
With the broad and rich land which You set before them,
Did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.




For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”


And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,


for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”




The Lord utters His voice before His army;
Surely His camp is very great,
For strong is he who carries out His word.
The day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome,
And who can endure it?

Near is the great day of the Lord,
Near and coming very quickly;
Listen, the day of the Lord!
In it the warrior cries out bitterly.


From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.

And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.

And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

The west border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

See, I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.


And He did not let him, but He *said to him, Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.”


and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.


He is your praise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you which your eyes have seen.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”


A man’s gift makes room for him
And brings him before great men.


Do not claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;

Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.


Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,






Righteous are You, O Lord, that I would plead my case with You;
Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?






and they implored Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were cured.




Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, “Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel.


When He entered the house, the blind men came up to Him, and Jesus *said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They *said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”


While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”


And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to report it to His disciples.


When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.


And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”


And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,


For she thought, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.”


Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud for joy,


Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.






“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’



So there was much rejoicing in that city.




“They refused to listen,
And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed among them;
So they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a God of forgiveness,
Gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;
And You did not forsake them.


A man’s gift makes room for him
And brings him before great men.


Do not claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;

Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.


The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

For a brief moment I forsook you,
But with great compassion I will gather you.


“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”





The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
In whirlwind and storm is His way,
And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power preserve those who are doomed to die.


The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
In whirlwind and storm is His way,
And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power preserve those who are doomed to die.


So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and the heavy rain.


how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,


From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.

And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.

And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your west border.

Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

The west border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

See, I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.


For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens
And Your truth to the clouds.