33 occurrences

'Afflict' in the Bible

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersPolygamyWitnesses, LegalAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodPeople Possibly Doing Evil

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesCries Of Distress To GodGod Pays AttentionHurtvulnerability

And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that sojourneth among you:

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeDay Of AtonementNew Year, TheOrdinancesWork, And RestStrangersAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Foreigners Included In The LawNo Work On Feast DaysHumbling Oneself

It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

Verse ConceptsAfflicting Your SoulSabbaths Instituted

Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsHolidayMonthNew Year, TheAutumnConvocationsAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Humbling OneselfMonths

It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfCelebrationsAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Sabbaths InstitutedHumbling OneselfRestcelebrating

But ships'shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Verse ConceptsHusband And WifeWifeMan And WomanA Good Husband

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Verse ConceptsTemptressesTying UpWomen's Strength

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

Verse ConceptsContentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toBeginningGod, The ProviderTroubling Groups Of PeopleGod's People PlantedMoving OnMoving To A New Place

When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

Verse ConceptsHumilityGod Troubling

When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

Verse ConceptsClosing Up

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfJusticeNot FindingGod Doing RightDoing RightGod Being Outside Of Creation

Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.

Verse Conceptsdriving outHeathenGod TroublingThe Lord Drove Them OutGod's People Planted

The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

Verse ConceptsTributesOvercoming

They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

Verse ConceptsJews Under Threatcrushes

And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordOvercoming EnemiesEnemiesEnemy Attacksharassment

and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

Verse ConceptsProstrationTorture

Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Verse ConceptsHumilityReedsSackcloth And AshesBowing Heads Before GodAshes Of HumiliationHow To FastHumbling OneselfFastingHumble Yourselfhumbleness

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Verse ConceptsSilenceGod Being Silent

And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsRootsWatchfulness, DivinePlucking OutMetaphorical Planting

For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Verse ConceptsGod UnwillingTragedygrieving

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.

Verse ConceptsGod As A WarriorGod Saves From Sin And DeathTroubling Groups Of People

Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

Verse ConceptsAliancesenemies, of Israel and JudahPeople Passing AwayMany EnemiesHow Death Is InevitableStrong PeopleGod Turned Back From Harming Them

Behold, at that time I will deal with all them that afflict thee; and I will save that which is lame, and gather that which was driven away; and I will make them a praise and a name, whose shame hath been in all the earth.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesEliminating ShameGod HealsNo DealingsPeople Have Honouruncertainty

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