Thematic Bible: Sent as a judgment


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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children, for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn’t turn to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration. Verse ConceptsBlightHailChastisementMildewAfflictions Of The WickedTreesNot Returning To GodNature Decayingmold

The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. Verse ConceptsBlightdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfHeatMildewWasteFeverWar As God's JudgmentDiseasecancermoldpossibilities

I struck you with blight and mildew;
the locust devoured
your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Verse ConceptsFig treeGarden, NaturalBlightHorticultureLocustsMildewOlivesDestroying VineyardsNot Returning To GodScorching

I am about to put a spirit in him, and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’” Verse ConceptsRumoursSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfKilling Will Happenrumors

I am about to put a spirit in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’” Verse ConceptsRumoursSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfKilling Will Happenrumors

The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion, Verse ConceptsConfusiondisabilitiesHealthMadnessBewildermentGod BlindingPuzzlementMental IllnessBlindness

What the devouring locust has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust has eaten.
Verse ConceptsInsectsFamine, Causes OfCaterpillarsLocustsSuffering, Nature OfSymbolsDestruction Of PlantsGathering FoodRemaining Food

I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust ate,
the young locust, the destroying locust,
and the devouring locust—
My great army that I sent against you.
Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsChangecancerlukewarmrehabilitationworms

The fire will devour you there; the sword will cut you down. It will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourselves like the young locust, multiply like the swarming locust! You have made your merchants more numerous than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips [the land] and flies away.

When there is famine on the earth,
when there is pestilence,
when there is blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper,
when their enemy besieges them
in the region of their fortified cities,
when there is any plague or illness,
Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsMildewHelp In ShortageNations Attacking Israel

What the devouring locust has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust has eaten.
Verse ConceptsInsectsFamine, Causes OfCaterpillarsLocustsSuffering, Nature OfSymbolsDestruction Of PlantsGathering FoodRemaining Food

He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Verse ConceptsCropsCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsUnfruitfulnessNot Reaping What You Sowworms

He spoke, and locusts came—
young locusts without number.
Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsInsectsLocusts

Raise a signal flag in the land;
blow a ram’s horn among the nations;
set apart the nations against her.
Summon kingdoms against her—
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.
Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleFlags

I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust ate,
the young locust, the destroying locust,
and the devouring locust—
My great army that I sent against you.
Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsChangecancerlukewarmrehabilitationworms

Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased—white as snow. Verse ConceptsdiseasesLeprosySnowWhiteAfflictions Of The Wicked, Examples OfMiracles Of ElishaWhite HairDiseaseGreed


Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the Lord’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease broke out on his forehead. Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanAnger, Sinful Examples

The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, terrorizing and afflicting the people of Ashdod and its territory with tumors. Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

So Aaron took his firepan as Moses had ordered, ran into the middle of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people. After he added incense, he made atonement for the people. Verse ConceptsAtonementIndividuals Running

So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast. Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfSootFurnacesBoth Men And Animals AffectedAbscess

The Lord afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesQuarantiningHealingOutcastsQuarantine

Jeroboam no longer retained his power during Abijah’s reign; ultimately, the Lord struck him and he died. Verse ConceptsDeath, Means Of

After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease. Verse ConceptsDiseaseSicknessIllnessmovement

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep. Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalSinners Grasped By DeathWhy It HappenedDyingWeaknessIllnesscommunion

What is more, he eats in darkness all his days, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger. Verse ConceptsSickness

if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands-and break My covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you-wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed. Verse ConceptsBook of the LawSicknessIllness

You yourself will be struck with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease.” Verse ConceptsDigestionBowelsDiseaseSicknessIllness

Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their sins. They loathed all food and came near the gates of death.

“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,
bringing desolation because of your sins.
Verse ConceptsSin Brings Sickness

then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands. Verse ConceptsPestilenceWar As God's JudgmentGod Executes VengeanceCovenant Made At SinaiGod's Sword

you will be visited by the Lord of Hosts
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.
Verse ConceptsearthquakesSuffering, Causes OfThunderGod Dispensing WindFire Of JudgementHurricanesThunder Expressing God's Judgment

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