Thematic Bible: Instrumentalities
Thematic Bible
Weak » Instrumentalities » God's instrument case
[No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.
Weak » Instrumentalities » Five smooth stones
Then he took his [shepherd’s] staff in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the stream bed, and put them in his shepherd’s bag which he had, that is, in his shepherd’s pouch. With his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.
Verse Concepts
Weak » Instrumentalities » Small things
Who [with reason] despises the day of small things (beginnings)? For these seven [eyes] shall rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord which roam throughout the earth.”
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Weak » Instrumentalities » A handful of meal and a little oil
But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar. See, I am gathering a few sticks so that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it [as our last meal] and die.”
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Weak » Instrumentalities » A cloud the size of a man's hand
And at the seventh time the servant said, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And Elijah said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the rain shower does not stop you.’”
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Weak » Instrumentalities » The mustard seed
Weak » Instrumentalities » A jaw-bone
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out his hand and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
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Weak » Instrumentalities » Arod
And the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.”
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Weak » Instrumentalities » Five barley loaves
“There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many people?”
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