10 Bible Verses about God Hindering

And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Therefore now flee to your own place. I said, 'I will certainly honor you,' but the LORD has held you back from honor."

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.

The LORDbrings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians."

And 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 defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.

Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"

Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that 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, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.