10 Bible Verses about God Hindering

Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but look, the Lord has denied you a reward.”

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.

He has walled in my ways with cut stones;
He has made my paths crooked.

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

He caused their chariot wheels to swerve and made them drive with difficulty. “Let’s get away from Israel,” the Egyptians said, “because Yahweh is fighting for them against Egypt!”

Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;
friends and neighbors will also perish.

Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, and I put a stumbling block in front of him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die because of his sin and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

When our enemies heard that we knew their scheme and that God had frustrated it, every one of us returned to his own work on the wall.