Thematic Bible: Rod


Thematic Bible



Moses said to Joshua: Choose some of our men. Then fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill. I will hold in my hand the staff God told me to take along.

Jehovah then spoke to Moses: Tell Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt; its rivers, canals, ponds, and all its reservoirs. They will turn into blood. There will be blood everywhere in Egypt, even in the buckets of wood and stone pitchers. Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesRivers And StreamsStonesWoodPoolsRodsBucketsStretching OutWater ContainersWood And Stone

As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. The sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land. Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToStretching OutDivision Of WatersDry LandWaters DividedComing To The Red Sea

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsFamine, Causes OfThunderMiracles Of Moses And AaronHailFire From Heaven

Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts. Verse ConceptseastAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronOne DayOut Of The EastbugsThe East Wind

Jehovah said to Moses: Tell Aaron, Strike the ground with your stick. The dust will change into gnats in all of Egypt.' Verse ConceptsDust, Literal UseInsectsFliesThings Changed

Jehovah said to Moses: Go in front of the people. Take the elders of Israel with you. Take your rod with which you struck the river, in your hand, and go. Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

Jehovah asked him: What is that in your hand? He answered: A shepherd's staff. Verse ConceptsSmall Things God UsesWhat Is This?

Take your staff in your hand with which you shall perform the signs. Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalSigns From God

So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfBridlesBackBeatingsWhipsWhippingBinding As Animals



Wisdom is found on the lips of the understanding (discerning). A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding. Verse ConceptsBackParental DisciplineLipsProverbsMan's WisdomDiscernment


then with a rod I will punish their transgression and their crimes with beatings. Verse ConceptsFloggingChastisementGod Beating People


I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his fury. Verse ConceptsI Am Suffering