24 Bible Verses about Poison
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When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water because it tasted bitter. That is why the place was called Marah (Bitter Place).
Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter.
Men from Jericho went to Elisha and said: You may know that this is a fine city but the water is bad and causes miscarriages. He ordered them: Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me. They brought it to him, and he went to the spring, threw the salt in the water, and said: This is what Jehovah says: 'I make this water pure. It will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages.'read more.
That water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha said it would be.
One of them went out in the fields to gather herbs. He found a wild vine and picked as many gourds as he could carry. He brought them back and sliced them into the stew, not knowing what they were. The stew was poured out for the men to eat. They tasted it and exclaimed to Elisha: It is poisoned! They would not eat it.
They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.
Jehovah sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust.
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified (mother) cities. Let us perish there, because Jehovah our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, for we have sinned against Jehovah.
Therefore Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'Behold! I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.'
This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about the prophets: I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout the land.
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.read more.
He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up. He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.
Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
The rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.
I am sending serpents against you, adders, for which there is no charm. They will bite you, says Jehovah.
Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!
The unbelieving Jews stirred up the people of the nations and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9)
([Psalm of David]) Rescue me from evil people, O Jehovah. Keep me safe from violent people. They plan evil things in their hearts. They start conflicts (fights) (wars) every day. They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison.
The locusts were not to kill them, but should torment them for five months: and their torment was the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a man.
