40 occurrences

'Scatter' in the Bible

Their anger is cursed, for it is strong,and their fury, for it is cruel!I will disperse them throughout Jacoband scatter them throughout Israel.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyFierce MenAngry People

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the firepans from the burning debris, because they are holy, and scatter the fire far away.

Verse ConceptsHallowed

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.

Verse ConceptsRemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelUnknown GodsDifferent GodsWood And Stone

I will attack him while he is weak and weary, throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will scatter. I will strike down only the king

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingOnly One PersonKilling Will HappenTired In Flighttired

For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFalse Godsdispersion, theReedsRootsGod Scattering IsraelGod Beating PeopleGod ShakingBeyond The EuphratesServing Asherah

Please remember what You commanded Your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.

Verse ConceptsOutsidersServants Of The LordUnfaithfulness, To GodGod Scattering Israel

You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;You scatter me in the storm.

Verse ConceptsStormsGod Dispensing WindThe Storms Of Life

You hand us over to be eaten like sheepand scatter us among the nations.

Verse ConceptsSheepGod Scattering IsraelScattered Like Sheep

Then they will be filled with terror—terror like no other—because God will scatterthe bones of those who besiege you.You will put them to shame,for God has rejected them.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGuilty FearBonesTerror Of GodBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. A song.God arises. His enemies scatter,and those who hate Him flee from His presence.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesGod ArisingHating GodEnemieshaters

Rebuke the beast in the reeds,the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.Trample underfoot those with bars of silver.Scatter the peoples who take pleasure in war.

Verse ConceptsBullsCalvesStretching OutWarfare, Nature OfScattering The PeoplesWild Beasts Subdued

Flash Your lightning and scatter the foe;shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfLightningGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrows

Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bareand making it desolate.He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

When he has leveled its surface,does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,with spelt as their border.

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesCummin

The peoples flee at the thunderous noise;the nations scatter when You rise in Your majesty.

Verse ConceptsSpeech, DivineThunderVoicesScattering The PeoplesFleeing From GodThunder Expressing God's Judgment

You will winnow themand a wind will carry them away,a gale will scatter them.But you will rejoice in the Lord;you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWinnowingDirection

I will scatter them among the nations that they and their fathers have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelNot Knowing PeopleGod Will Kill His People

I will scatter you like drifting chaffbefore the desert wind.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theChaffGod Scattering Israel

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.I will show them My back and not My faceon the day of their calamity.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodeastGod Scattering IsraelTurning One's BackOut Of The EastThe East Wind

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdPeople Of God, In OtSheepInadequate ShepherdingScattered Like SheepWoe To Israel And JerusalemLeaders

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, “Let me go kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and scatter all of Judah that has gathered to you so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

Verse ConceptsJews, ThePrivacySurvivors DestroyedInformation In Secret

I will bring the four winds against Elamfrom the four corners of the heavens,and I will scatter them to all these winds.There will not be a nationto which Elam’s banished ones will not go.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesFour WindsExiled Foreigners

I will send strangers to Babylonwho will scatter her and strip her land bare,for they will come against herfrom every side in the day of disaster.

Verse ConceptsForeignersWinnowing

You are to burn up a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleOne ThirdThings StrippedBurning JerusalemAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldOther References To Hair

As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismGod Scattering IsraelSurvivors ThreatenedFathers And SonsDadsFathers And Daughters

A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesRemnantPestilenceOne ThirdThings StrippedFamine Killing

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Verse ConceptsBonesFate Of IdolatersIn Front

The Lord spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with hot coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” So he went in as I watched.

Verse ConceptsLinenWheelsCherubim

I will also scatter all the attendants who surround him and all his troops to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelThings StrippedNo HelpGod's Sword

They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelJudgement In The WildernessGod Swearing Harm

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries; I will purge your uncleanness.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessdispersion, theGod Scattering IsraelBeing Cleansed From Sin

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among ruined cities for 40 years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them across the countries.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

When I disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries, they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

He called out loudly:Cut down the tree and chop off its branches;strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.Let the animals flee from under it,and the birds from its branches.

Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThings StrippedFoliageBearing Fruit

You pierce his headwith his own spears;his warriors storm out to scatter us,gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

Verse ConceptsPoor, The Wicked Response ToActing In SecretNot Helping The PoorRejoicing In Evil

I asked, “What are they coming to do?”He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so no one could raise his head. These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

Bible Theasaurus

Dispel (1 instance)
Disperse (14 instances)
Dissipate (1 instance)
Scatter (87 instances)
Scattering (27 instances)
Spread (323 instances)
Sprinkle (39 instances)
Strewing (2 instances)

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