40 occurrences

'Consume' in the Bible

Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfGod KillingLack Of DiscriminationGod Kills

What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDestruction Of CitiesNot SparingNumbers Of Righteous People

There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

Verse ConceptsGod Will Be AngryIsrael Hardened

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

Verse ConceptsGod Changing His MindGod Might Kill His PeopleGod Turned Back From Harming ThemLet Not God Be AngryGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

Verse ConceptsFoodStubbornness, Consequences OfTent Of MeetingObstinacy Against GodGod Might Kill His PeopleMilk And HoneyRich Food

Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"

Verse ConceptsNecksCharacter Of WickedCosmeticsPeople Stripping OffGod Might Kill His Peoplejewelry

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"

Verse ConceptsSeparationSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

"Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces.

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

"Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Verse ConceptseagernessGod, Zeal OfAction Lest God Be Angry

Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From Godrisk

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

Verse ConceptsTrapEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other godsShow No Mercypity

Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsGraduallyWild Beasts SubduedThe Lord Will Drive Them OutGradual Conquest Of The Land

You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Verse ConceptsLocustsPlanting Seeds

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod Will Bring HarmForgiving Others Who Hurt YouServing God

The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfSorrowUnhappinessWeepingDeath As Punishment

Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From HeavenMan Of God

Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDeath Due To God's PresenceFire From HeavenMan Of Godhumor

of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.

because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Verse ConceptsKilling Israelites

For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleThe Outer DarknessOuter Darkness

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

Verse ConceptsInsectsRebukeBeauty, Temporal Nature OfVanityPossessions DecayingMothsMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsGod Requite Them!Time Passing

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

Verse ConceptsGod's DominionGod Angry With The NationsPsalm InterjectionsKnowing About God's Kingdomwrath

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodRestraintRight Hand Of GodGod's Hand

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Verse ConceptsDamage To The BodyFurnacesImminent Tomorrowsmoking

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBarbersBaldnessBeardsHairsHiringLegsShavingRazorsThe Hair Of The BodyTrimming Facial HairCutting HairBeyond The EuphratesHair

He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsHarming Trees

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyHand Of GodShameStoringZealGod's HandBurning PeopleNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsShame Will Come

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

Verse ConceptsFig treedrynessGrapesHarvestSowing And ReapingVinesFamine

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Of HypocritesdiseasesPlaguesPestilencePointless Fasting

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

Verse ConceptsWindGod Sending RainGod Dispensing WindFloods

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodSabbath, In OtJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedWorks Of The LawRebellion against God

I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessdispersion, theGod Scattering IsraelBeing Cleansed From Sin

In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

Verse ConceptsendempiresKingdom Of God, Coming OfMillenniumMessianic PropheciesNeverChrist Reigning ForeverPeople Destroying Foreign NationsThe Kingdom Of OthersThrone Of DavidEnd Of Dayslimitationscrushes

But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsLossSittingGod SuingDeposing

This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

Verse ConceptsPeople RottingSocketsEyes HarmedDiseaseSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

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Consume (170 instances)
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