49 occurrences

'Adversaries' in the Bible

And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAnger Of God, ConsequencesConfrontationGod Angry With The Nations

But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahBlessings, To IsraelCautionGod As EnemyEnemies

And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to their shame before their adversaries.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsdisgraceShameDegradationPeople Stripping PeopleShame Of Bad Conductvulnerability

If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.

If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodHatredSharpeningGod Executes VengeanceHating GodGod's Sword

Bless, Jehovah, his substance! And let the work of his hands please thee; Crush the loins of his adversaries, And of them that hate him, that they may never rise again!

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

Verse ConceptsIrritationTrapNot Driving Them OutEvil TrappingNo Help In Other Gods

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfWhat Have We In Common?Enemies Of God

And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesThree DaysTwo To Four MonthsThree YearsFamine ComingFamine Will ComeGod Will Cause Defeat

Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysTwo To Four MonthsThree YearsFamine Coming

And the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to Jehovah the God of Israel;

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyRebuilding The Temple

And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them and kill them, and put an end to the work.

Verse ConceptsCessationNot Knowing The FutureAttempting To Kill Specific Peopleteammates

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Verse ConceptsNosesPride, Results OfSelf Righteousness, Nature OfNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsThe Wicked Prosperrehabilitationprospering

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! lest mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.

Verse ConceptsdefeatRejoicing In Evil

When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Verse ConceptsStumblingDownfallPeople OvercomingEnemiesProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodWitnesses, FalseOvercoming EnemiesSurrenderProtection From Enemiesbreathing

As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAgony, Of BodyAgony, DeathSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfDerisionGod Not ExistingAll DayWhere Is God?

Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Verse ConceptsBattlesPromised VictoryOvercoming

For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

Verse ConceptsGod Saving From EnemiesEnemieshatersdevotion

Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahBeing Strong

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Verse ConceptsShameGod, All knowingBeing ReprovedShame Will Come

Let them be ashamed, let them be consumed, that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

Verse ConceptsBlamedisgraceHurt

Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseGroups ShoutingFlags

Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

Verse ConceptsNot Forgetting

And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

Verse Conceptsevangelising

I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesSubject To GodEnemy Attacks

But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him.

Verse ConceptsChrist OvercomingHatehaterscrushes

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyBurning People

Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahGod's Willbaseball

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

Verse ConceptsCloaksClothed With Bad ThingsPeople Accusing People

Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfRetributionGod Executes VengeanceRevengeventing

And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and arm his enemies,

Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see: yet they shall see thy jealousy for the people, and be ashamed; yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyHand Of GodShameStoringZealGod's HandBurning PeopleNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsShame Will Come

According to deeds, so will he repay: fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

Verse ConceptsIslandsReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnThe Recompense Of The WickedGod Will Requite

Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsTrampling Places

as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

Verse ConceptsTrembling

Therefore all that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be for a spoil; and all they that prey upon thee will I give to be a prey.

Verse ConceptsPlundering

For this is the day of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may be avenged of his adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be sated and made drunk with their blood; for the Lord Jehovah of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country, by the river Euphrates.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDSatisfactionGod Executes VengeanceAll Things Belong To God

All that found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdHope, Nature OfPlea Of Innocence

Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

Verse ConceptsChastisementLamentingSorrowYoung People SufferingThe Wicked ProsperGod Troubling

In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodWanderersPeople RememberingHistory Of NationsNo HelpScoffers

Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him; Jerusalem is as an impurity among them.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSitting In DejectionNo Comfort

Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toGuidance, God's Promises OfPlansDeterminismPower Through GodHorns VictoriousGod Speaking Of OldNot SparingRejoicing In Evil

Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

Verse ConceptsLifting HandsPeople OpposedKilling Will HappenOvercoming Enemiescutting

A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

Verse ConceptsGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Zeal OfJealousyRetributionEnemies Of GodGod Executes Vengeanceadvertising

Bible Theasaurus

Adversaries (113 instances)
Adversary (115 instances)
Antagonist (3 instances)
Opponent (18 instances)
Opposer (1 instance)