Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Chains » Used to confine prisoners
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
And now, behold, I set you free today from the chains on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come. And I will keep my eye on you. But if it seems evil to you to come with me into Babylon, stay. Behold, all the land is before you. Wherever it seems good and pleasing for you to go, go there.
And when Herod was about to bring him out, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Also guards were keeping the prison before the door. And behold! An angel of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the building. And striking Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Rise up quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.
Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. And he demanded who he was and what he had done.
For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.
Dearth » Spiritual
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.
For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.
For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Rebellion » Against God, condemned
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Woe to the rebellious sons, says Jehovah, who make advice, but not of Me; and who cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they add sin to sin;
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!
And they refused to obey, neither were they mindful of Your wonders which You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.
And He said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to the nations, the rebelling ones who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have sinned against Me, to this day.
I have spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people who walk in the way not good, after their own thoughts;
I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!
Rebellion against God » They who are guilty of » Impoverished for
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.
For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.
For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.