'Sick' in the Bible

Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” And he said, “I am a young man of Egypt, a servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me behind when I fell sick three days ago.

So Nathan went to his house.Then the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s widow bore to David, so that he was very sick.

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman.”

Now it came about after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

At that time Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and murdered him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;I humbled my soul with fasting,And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick.And I looked for sympathy, but there was none,And for comforters, but I found none.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Where will you be stricken again,As you continue in your rebellion?The whole head is sickAnd the whole heart is faint.

And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

And no resident will say, “I am sick”;The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

“The heart is more deceitful than all elseAnd is desperately sick;Who can understand it?

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king’s business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;He stretched out his hand with scoffers,

“So also I will make you sick, striking you down,Desolating you because of your sins.

But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil? Why not offer it to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Or would he receive you kindly?” says the Lord of hosts.

You also say, ‘My, how tiresome it is!’ And you disdainfully sniff at it,” says the Lord of hosts, “and you bring what was taken by robbery and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand?” says the Lord.

When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.

And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent word into all that surrounding district and brought to Him all who were sick;

naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’

When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’

I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’

Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.

and ran about that whole country and began to carry here and there on their pallets those who were sick, to the place they heard He was.

Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured.

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

While the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them.

And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.

And a centurion’s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.

and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’

Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was performing on those who were sick.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”

So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them.

Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

And it happened at that time that she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upper room.

so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.