10 occurrences

'Withheld' in the Bible

"Don't lay your hand on the youth!" he said. "Don't do anything to him, because I've just demonstrated that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only unique one, from me."

and said, "I have taken an oath to swear by myself," declares the LORD, "that since you have carried this out and have not withheld your only unique son,

No one has more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld nothing from me, except you, and that's because you're his wife. So how can I commit such a horrible evil? How can I sin against God?"

You've neglected to give water to the weary, and you've withheld food from the hungry.

"The living God has withheld justice from me; the Almighty has made my life bitter.

Then from the wicked their light is withheld and their upraised arm is broken.

You have granted him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld what his lips requested. Interlude

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion? Interlude

This is why the rain has been withheld and there are no spring showers. Yet you have a harlot's look and you refuse to be ashamed.

"I therefore have withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest, causing rain to come upon one city, but not upon another, and upon one field but not upon another, so that it would wither.

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