'Hated' in the Bible

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.

Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

“Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

You grumbled in your tents and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they would destroy us, because He hated us.

Otherwise, those in the land you brought us from will say, ‘Because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

“I was sure you hated her,” her father said, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Why not take her instead?”

After this, Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that the hatred he hated her with was greater than the love he had loved her with. “Get out of here!” he said.

Absalom didn’t say anything to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon since he disgraced his sister Tamar.

He rescued me from my powerful enemyand from those who hated me,for they were too strong for me.

You have made my enemies retreat before me;I annihilate those who hate me.

The king’s command and law went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them. They did what they pleased to those who hated them.

The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces assembled, defended themselves, and got rid of their enemies. They killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they did not seize any plunder.

He rescued me from my powerful enemyand from those who hated me,for they were too strong for me.

He handed them over to the nations;those who hated them ruled them.

Because they hated knowledge,didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,and how my heart despised correction.

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,and a man who schemes is hated.

A poor man is hated even by his neighbor,but there are many who love the rich.

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Instead of your being deserted and hated,with no one passing through,I will make you an object of eternal pride,a joy from age to age.

I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased—all those you loved as well as all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose your nakedness to them so they see you completely naked.

but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’

You will be hated by everyone because of My name,

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.

I have given them Your word.The world hated thembecause they are not of the world,as I am not of the world.

As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.

You have loved righteousnessand hated lawlessness;this is why God, Your God,has anointed Youwith the oil of joyrather than Your companions.