Thematic Bible: To man, instances of
Thematic Bible
Ingratitude » To man, instances of
Is it such an insignificant thing that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now you're trying to make yourself be a prince and rule over us, aren't you?
This is how King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah's father Jehoiada had shown him: he killed his son. As he lay dying, Zechariah cried out, "May the LORD watch this and avenge."
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to take my life. Remember! I stood before you and spoke good on their behalf in order to turn your wrath away from them.
Now David had said, "Surely it was for nothing that I protected everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness, and nothing was missing of all that belonged to him. But he has repaid me with evil for good!
Despite all of this, the senior security advisor not only didn't remember Joseph, he deliberately forgot him.
"But now as for you, you've rebelled against my father's house today. You've murdered his sons 70 men in one place, and you've installed Abimelech, the son of his mistress, as king to rule over the "lords" of Shechem, since he's related to you.
And they showed no gracious love to the household of Jerubbaal also known as Gideon despite all the good that he had done for Israel.
Now there was found within it a poor, but wise man. He delivered the city by his wisdom, but not one person remembered that poor man.
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