'Hated' in the Bible

When Joseph's brothers realized that their father loved him more than all of his brothers, they hated him so much that they were unable to speak politely to him.

Right about this time, Joseph had a dream and then told it to his brothers. As a result, his brothers hated him all the more!

At this, his brothers replied, "Do you really think you're going to rule us or lord it over us?" So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his interpretations of them.

Otherwise, the people of the land from which you brought us will say, "The LORD wasn't able to bring them out of the land that he had promised them. So he brought them out to kill them in the desert because he hated them."

"Now this is the situation for any killer who flees there to live: suppose he strikes his friend unwittingly, not having hated him previously.

But Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, "Weren't you the ones who hated me and drove me out of my father's house? And you come to me now that you're in trouble?"

Her father said, "Because I honestly thought that you hated her deeply, I gave her in marriage to your best man. Isn't her younger sister better than she? Please then, let her be yours instead."

Afterwards, though, Amnon hated her very intensely. As a result, his hatred for her exceeded the love that he had previously for her. So Amnon told her, "Get up! Leave!"

But Absalom never said a word, either good or bad, to Amnon. Nevertheless, he hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

He opposed Israel during Solomon's entire reign, in addition to all of the evil things that Hadad did. Rezon also hated Israel while he reigned over Aram.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the king's order and edict was about to be carried out, on the day when the enemies of the Jewish people expected to prevail over them, things were turned around so that the Jewish people themselves prevailed over those who hated them.

The rest of the Jewish people in the king's provinces assembled to defend themselves, and they gained relief from their enemies, killing 75,000 of those who hated them. But they did not lay their hands on the spoils.

"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hated me because they were stronger than I.

He turned them over to domination by nations where those who hated them ruled over them.

"Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!

A quick tempered person does foolish things, and a devious man is hated.

Whoever says to the wicked, "You're in the right," will be cursed by people and hated by nations.

So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind.

therefore, watch out! I'm about to gather all your lovers from whom you've received your pleasure, everyone whom you've loved, and those whom you've hated. I'll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they'll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they'll see you completely naked.

therefore as I'm alive and living," declares the Lord GOD, "I'm turning you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will certainly overtake you, since you never have hated shedding blood. That's why bloodshed will certainly pursue you.

They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

"Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD, "yet I loved Jacob, hated Esau, turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to desert jackals.

You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

"Then they'll hand you over to suffer and will kill you, and you'll be hated by all the nations because of my name.

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name.

"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

So it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church.

After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. That is why God, your God, anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness."

He cried out in a powerful voice, "Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a prison for every unclean spirit, a prison for every unclean bird, and a prison for every unclean and hated beast.