Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Chains » Used to confine prisoners
God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Today, I am removing the chains from your hands. If you would like to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But if you do not want to come with me to Babylon, do not come. The whole land is yours. Go wherever you want.
It was the night before Herod was to bring him to trial. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers. He was bound with two chains. Sentries stood guard at the prison door. Suddenly God's angel came to him. A light shined in the prison. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up saying: Get up quickly. And his chains fell off of his hands.
Then the military commander came near and laid hold on him. He commanded that he be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.
The reason I sent for you is to talk with you. I am in these chains because of the hope of Israel.
The Lord grants mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains.
Dearth » Spiritual
The poor and needy search for water, but there is none! Their tongues are parched with thirst. But I Jehovah will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
My people will go into exile because they do not understand what I am doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.
God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
([[Psalm of David] in the wilderness of Judah:]) O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. I thirst for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.
You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water.
He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.
Rebellion » Against God, condemned
God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.
Son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they cannot see. They have ears, but they cannot hear because they are rebellious people.
The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.
They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
He said: Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are people from a nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.
All day long I held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations (thoughts),
I will go to the great men (leaders) and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do. But all of them have rejected Jehovah's authority and refuse to obey him.
Rebellion against God » They who are guilty of » Impoverished for
God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners 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 search for water, but there is none! Their tongues are parched with thirst. But I Jehovah will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
My people will go into exile because they do not understand what I am doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.
God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
([[Psalm of David] in the wilderness of Judah:]) O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. I thirst for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.
You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water.
He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.