62 occurrences

'Against' in the Bible

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

Verse ConceptsMan And Woman

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you.

Verse ConceptsMemoriesenemies, of Israel and JudahDivine RemembranceTrumpets For BattleGod Remembering The NeedyGod ReprovingPrinciples Of WarWarBattleEnemy Attacks

And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahScattering The PeoplesThe Ark Moved AroundGod ArisingFleeing From GodHating GodGod Overcoming

But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsIntemperanceNosesOne MonthNostrilsGod Is Among You

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

Verse ConceptsTeethAt The Same Time

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodAaron, CharacterAaron, Sins OfSecond MarriageInterracial MarriageRebellion against GodFunPatience In Relationshipsdiscriminationcriticisminterracial

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodExperience, of GodGod, Revelation OfRevelation, In OtDivine FriendshipClarityBeing Face To Face With GodThose Who Saw GodPlainnessAddressing SomeoneRevelation Through Direct CommunicationPatience In RelationshipsSpeechcriticism

And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With Individuals

But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofBad Decision Making ExamplesStrong NationsUnable To Expel

And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsFaultsMurmuringDiscontentDying In The WildernessDesire For DeathGrumbling At PeopleDying In The Desert Complainingwandering

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

Verse ConceptsImmanuelRebellion, Against GodRebellion Against God, Nature OfGod With YouEasy For PeopleUnguardedDo Not Fear MenRebellion against GodProtection From EnemiesRemoving People From Your Life

How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

Verse ConceptsFaultsGod, Patience OfHearingRejection Of GodGod, All knowingGrumblingBefore God ActsComplaining

Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalTwentyDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentDying In The Desert Complaining

And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForKnowledge, Of GodThe Number FortyOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsGod OpposingAccording To TimeComplainingexploringconsequenceswanderingland

I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

Verse ConceptsDecadenceDying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

Verse ConceptsDiscontentSpying

And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Ten Commandments

Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

And if in error you go against any of these laws which the Lord has given to Moses,

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commandsignorance

They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfAaron, Life EventsConfrontationSelf Righteousness, Nature OfWorldly Ambition ExamplesEnvy, Example OfPlottingGod Is Among YouA Holy NationSeeking Honourorganization

So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsGrumbling At PeopleOther Unimportant PeopleComplaining

And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.

Verse ConceptsAssembling At The Doorway

Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

Verse ConceptsSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedWill God Be Angry?venting

But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

Verse ConceptsDiscontentGrumbling At PeopleJudged As MurderersComplaining

Now when the people had come together against Moses and Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsPillar Of CloudClouds, God's PresenceDivine Manifestations

And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you.

Verse ConceptsBlossomResentment, Against GodSprouting PlantsSproutingGrumbling At People

And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionRebellion, Against GodAaron, Life EventsDeath Due To God's PresenceDo Not GrumbleThings As Signsrebellion

And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsDry PlacesNo Water For People

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

Verse ConceptsStriving With God

And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahHospitality, Examples OfInhospitality

But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.

Verse ConceptsLargenessEarthly ArmiesLarge Armies

Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against GodAaron, Sins OfGathered To One's People

And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking Israel

And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBlameComplaintsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathNo FoodBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy Do You Do This?ComplainingQuestioning Life

Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodMoses, Significance OfRepentance, Examples OfAcknowledge, SinAfflictions, Benefits OfPraying For SinnersWe Have SinnedComplaints

And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and Judah

For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

Verse ConceptsArnon

Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahHighwayInhospitality

And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfFearing Other PeopleMany In Israel

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her more blows.

Verse ConceptsAccidentsInjury To FeetBeating AnimalsPressingSeeing Angelscrushes

And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBeating AnimalsActing Three TimesGod As EnemyWhy Do You Do This?

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.

Verse ConceptsAcknowledge, SinIndividuals going homeIgnorant Of FactsWe Have Sinned

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicDivinationWhat Does God Do?SorceryEclipseisraelmagicadvertisingOccult Being Powerless Before God

It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicorns

Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanCommunicating Three TimesClappingBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelNamed People Angry With Others

So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionGod's Intolerance Of EvilJoined To Evilalignment

And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

Verse ConceptsFighting One Another

Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessSinners Grasped By DeathDeath Of A Father

Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against GodWilderness Of ZinGrumbling

So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

Verse ConceptsGod Executes Vengeance

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyadvisersMan's Counsel

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceChildren Of Evil

But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityWarriors

Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

Verse ConceptsRiver CrossingsExemptThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

Verse ConceptsFindingExposure Of SinBeing Found OutMaking Mistakes

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

Verse ConceptsLack Of Expectation

Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

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Against (2892 instances)

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