Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Anger of God » Manifested in judgments and afflictions
“How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
And that their disaster falls on them?
Does God distribute pain and destruction and sorrow [to them] in His anger?
He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels of calamity and woe among them. He leveled and made a straight path for His anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families] from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their eldest] over to the plague. He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is burned up,
And the people are like fuel for the fire;
No man spares his brother.
Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and [the fire will] not be quenched.”
They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will be [discarded] like something unclean; their silver and their gold shall not be able to save them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. These [things] cannot satisfy their soul nor fill their stomachs, for they have become their stumbling block and source of sin.
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?
Egyptians » Visted by plagues
How He wrought His miracles in Egypt and His wonders in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided] And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink from them. He sent swarms of [venomous] flies among them which devoured them, and frogs which destroyed them. read more.
He gave also their crops to the caterpillar and [the fruit of] their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost and [great chunks of] ice. He [caused them to shut up their cattle or] gave them up also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels of calamity and woe among them. He leveled and made a straight path for His anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families] from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their eldest] over to the plague. He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
He gave also their crops to the caterpillar and [the fruit of] their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost and [great chunks of] ice. He [caused them to shut up their cattle or] gave them up also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels of calamity and woe among them. He leveled and made a straight path for His anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families] from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their eldest] over to the plague. He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
Egyptians » Firstborn of destroyed
Now it happened at midnight that the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
He killed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first and best of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.
To Him who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Ham » Patronymic of the descendants of ham
Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
He killed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first and best of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
They found rich, good pasture, and the [cleared] land was wide, quiet, and peaceful; for those who had lived there previously came from Ham [and had left it a better place for those who came after them].
They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).