10 Bible Verses about God Hindering
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So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Therefore, flee to your place now. I said I would honor you greatly, but behold, the Lord has held you back from honor.”
“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring calamity on Absalom.
Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.
And they will stumble against them,
Fathers and sons together;
Neighbor and friend will perish.”
Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.