Thematic Bible: Wickedness of


Thematic Bible




Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: Verse ConceptsDisgustKings of judah

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. Verse ConceptsSeparationAbominations, Perverse Sexuality

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping animal, and the fowls of the air; for I repent that I have made them.

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Verse ConceptsRetributionSin, Effects OfPolluting The LandDefilementovereating

But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinners before the LORD, exceedingly. Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfSodom And GomorrahCitiesYielding To Temptation

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Verse ConceptsCustomAbhorConformityExamples, Badevil, warnings againstMannersPollutionsEvil AssociationsNot Imitating EvilGod Hating People

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodBeing ForsakenFalse ConfidenceCisternsdrought, spiritualFountainsTwoDoubtSpring Of WaterThirstTrust, Lack OfWellsFountains Of LifeBreaking ContainersMetaphorical SpringsTwo Intangible ThingsWells, Figurative Use

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Examples OfProstitutionUnforgivenessHarlotsGod Not ForgivingSwearing ByThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Verse ConceptsUnhappinessOutcry

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Verse ConceptsRebuilding Jerusalem

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. read more.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if ye can find a man, if there is any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. O LORD, are not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. read more.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet should perish out of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee; how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Moreover, all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfUnfaithfulness, To GodPollutions

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? bring them out to us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door to them, and shut the door after him, read more.
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one man came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has become great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Arise, depart from this place; for the LORD will destroy this city: but he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.



Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. Verse ConceptsBacksliding, Israel ExanplesSolomon, Character OfUnique Individuals

Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die. Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemy, Examples OfBlameWivesBad Wives ExamplesHolding FastTemptressesCursing GodWife

But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. Verse ConceptsCelebrationsBanquets, ActivitiesGuestsBirthdays CelebratedFathers Birthdayheroes

For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) Verse ConceptsBad InfluenceCavesProphets, Lives OfSchool Of ProphetsWaterLove to Others, Examples OfFiftiesOne HundredPeople In CavesKilling ProphetsPeople Hiding PeopleProphets Killedprophetsjezebelhidinggroups

And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time. Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutMessengerPersecution, Nature OfProphets, Lives OfRevenge, Examples OfMan's Action TomorrowKilling Prophetsjezebel

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. Verse ConceptsInsecurityMothers Of KingsKilling Whole FamiliesKilling Sons And DaughtersGrandmothers

And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. Verse ConceptsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksGrandmothersgrandmas

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and to-morrow speak thou to the king that Mordecai may be hanged upon it: then go thou in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesDimensions Of Other ThingsPeople Hung To DeathNamed Wives