111 occurrences

'Against' in the Bible

He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against Me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against Me to this day.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionMissionaries, Call OfSon Of ManAncestorsFalse Religion To This DayGod Sending ProphetsLeaders SinningDisunityrebellion

with the sound of the living creatures’ wings brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.

Verse ConceptsWingsWheelsAngel's WingsTouching Holy ThingsSound

Then lay siege against it: construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

Verse ConceptsBare ArmsAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldProphesy!

But she has rebelled against My ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RejectionRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodGrowth Of EvilThey Do Not Keep Commands

therefore, this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments within you in the sight of the nations.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfGod OpposingThings Manifest

As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismGod Scattering IsraelSurvivors ThreatenedFathers And SonsDadsFathers And Daughters

So you will be a disgrace and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes. I, Yahweh, have spoken.

Verse ConceptsMade A HorrorThe Nations Before GodFun

When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfArrows, Described AsArchers, Likened To GodFamine Coming From God

I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless, Jerusalem. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentFamine Coming From GodBereavementKilling Will Happen

“Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

Verse ConceptsProphesy!

You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGod's HandDestruction Of CountriesGod's Hands Stretched Out

The end is now upon you;I will send My anger against youand judge you according to your ways.I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

An end has come; the end has come!It has awakened against you.Look, it is coming!

Verse ConceptsPeople Ended

I will pour out My wrath on you very soon;I will exhaust My anger against youand judge you according to your ways.I will punish you for all your detestable practices.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Consequencesventing

Therefore, prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man!”

Verse ConceptsProphesy!

You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Other Things

“I will bring you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners; I will execute judgments against you.

Verse ConceptsSuffering From ForeignersBringing People Out Of Other Places

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!

Verse ConceptsSuperstitionFalse Prophets DenouncedProphesy!imagination

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against you because you have spoken falsely and had lying visions.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsGod Opposing

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not be present in the fellowship of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, and they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsDeceit Leading to JudgmentGod's HandEntering The KingdomFalse VisionsGod OpposingGod's Hands In Opposition

After I exhaust My wrath against the wall and against those who plaster it with whitewash, I will say to you: The wall is no more and neither are those who plastered it—

Verse ConceptsPlasterWhitewashingNowhere To Be Found

“Now, son of man, turn toward the women of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them

Verse ConceptsdaughtersProphetessThoughts Of The WickedFalse Prophets DenouncedPeople Opposed

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against your magic bands that you ensnare people with like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. I will free the people you have ensnared like birds.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Figurative UseGod Stripping PeopleGod OpposingAvoid SorceryGod Freeing CaptivesBirdsflyingmagicvampires

I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodMarks On PeopleGod Opposing

“But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutGod's HandGod DeceivingGod OpposingGod's Hands Stretched Out

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of bread, to send famine through it, and to wipe out both man and animal from it,

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodStretching OutGod's HandDestruction Of All CreaturesGod's Hands Stretched OutBoth Men And Animals KilledUnfaithful

“Or if I bring a sword against that land and say: Let a sword pass through it, so that I wipe out both man and animal from it,

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of All CreaturesBoth Men And Animals Killed

“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four devastating judgments against Jerusalem—sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague—in order to wipe out both man and animal from it!

Verse ConceptsPlaguesPestilenceDestruction Of All CreaturesFamine Coming From GodFour Other ThingsBoth Men And Animals Killed

I will turn against them. They may have escaped from the fire, but it will still consume them. And you will know that I am Yahweh when I turn against them.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodBurning JerusalemGod Opposing

“Therefore, I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent behavior.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessStretching OutEvil DesiresPeople Being HatedShame Of Bad ConductThey Committed ImmoralityGod Will Cause DefeatGreedbehavior

I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased—all those you loved as well as all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose your nakedness to them so they see you completely naked.

Verse ConceptsDenunciationsLooking At People For EvilGathering FriendsPeople Being Hatedlovers

They will bring a mob against you to stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Verse ConceptsPeople Cut In PiecesFear Of Stoning

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute, and you will never again pay fees for lovers.

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping EvilBurning JerusalemSeeing Situations

So I will satisfy My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be silent and no longer angry.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfAnger SubsidingGod Will No More Be Angry

However, this king revolted against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt so they might give him horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still escape?

Verse ConceptsenvoyLargenessRebellion Against God, Shown InNo EscapeAcquiring HorsesLarge Armies

I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there for the treachery he committed against Me.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToNetsGod TrappingExile In ProspectGod SuingUnfaithful

None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. He will live because of the righteousness he has practiced.

Then the nations from the surrounding provincesset out against him.They spread their net over him;he was caught in their pit.

Verse ConceptsNetsMan TrappingPeople Opposed

“Will you pass judgment against them, will you pass judgment, son of man? Explain the detestable practices of their fathers to them.

Verse ConceptsSins Of The FathersThings Revealed

“But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me. None of them threw away the detestable things that were before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them, exhausting My anger against them within the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, And God's CharacterRebellion Against God, Shown InSending Things AwayEvil EyesIdol WorshipRebellion against God

“But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—the person who does them will live by them. They also completely profaned My Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them in the wilderness to put an end to them.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodSabbath, In OtJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedWorks Of The LawRebellion against God

“But the children rebelled against Me. They did not follow My statutes or carefully keep My ordinances—the person who does them will live by them. They also profaned My Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them and exhausting My anger against them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsWorks Of The Law

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by committing treachery against Me:

Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemyUnfaithfulacting

And I will also purge you of those who rebel and transgress against Me. I will bring them out of the land where they live as foreign residents, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodPurgingEntering The KingdomBeing Cleansed From Sin

“Son of man, face the south and preach against it. Prophesy against the forest land in the Negev,

Verse ConceptsFacing South

“Son of man, turn your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel,

Verse ConceptsProphesy!

and say to it: This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off both the righteous and the wicked from you.

Verse ConceptsSwordsThings StrippedGod OpposingGod Will Kill His PeopleGod's Sword

Since I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will therefore come out of its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.

Verse ConceptsNorthSouthNorth And SouthGod KillingAll PeopleGod KillsGod Will Kill His People

Cry out and wail, son of man,for it is against My people.It is against all the princes of Israel!They are given over to the sword with My people.Therefore strike your thigh in grief.

Verse ConceptsPrincesWar As God's JudgmentThighsBeating OneselfKilled With The Sword

The answer marked Jerusalem appears in his right hand, indicating that he should set up battering rams, give the order to slaughter, raise a battle cry, set battering rams against the gates, build a ramp, and construct a siege wall.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility For Blood ShedGiving Information

“Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.

Verse ConceptsExtortionUnjust GainCommerceBeating OneselfKilling Many People

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.

Verse ConceptsTortureNakedness Uncovered

“Therefore Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side:

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedGod Urging

They will come against you with an alliance of nations and with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will set themselves against you on every side with shields, bucklers, and helmets. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will judge you by their own standards.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCartsShieldsWheelsWagonsAttacking With ChariotsHelmetsPeople Opposed

Then the Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare their detestable practices to them.

Verse ConceptsSin Made Known

“This is what the Lord God says: Summon an assembly against them and consign them to terror and plunder.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingPeople OpposedPeople Appalled

“Son of man, turn your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfFacing

therefore I am about to stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and eliminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

So I will execute judgments against Moab, and they will know that I am Yahweh.”

This is what the Lord God says: “Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah and incurred grievous guilt by taking revenge on them,

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingRevenge

therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off both man and animal from it. I will make it a wasteland; they will fall by the sword from Teman to Dedan.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodBoth Men And Animals Killed

therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am about to stretch out My hand against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and wiping out what remains of the coastal peoples.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

I will execute great vengeance against them with furious rebukes. They will know that I am Yahweh when I take My vengeance on them.”

Verse ConceptsGod Executes VengeanceRevenge

therefore this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Tyre! I will raise up many nations against you, just as the sea raises its waves.

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfSeaThings Like The SeaSea, Metaphorical References

For this is what the Lord God says: “See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a vast company of troops.

Verse ConceptsChariotsNorthAttacking With ChariotsOut Of The North

He will slaughter your villages on the mainland with the sword. He will set up siege works against you, and will build a ramp and raise a wall of shields against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his iron tools.

Verse ConceptsAxesBattering ramsTowers

For this is what the Lord God says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Verse ConceptsCovering The EarthEmpty CitiesIn The Heart Of The Sea

I am about to bring strangers against you,ruthless men from the nations.They will draw their swordsagainst your magnificent wisdomand will defile your splendor.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersLosing HonourPeople Without Mercy

“Son of man, turn your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it.

You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:Look! I am against you, Sidon,and I will display My glory within you.They will know that I am Yahwehwhen I execute judgments against herand demonstrate My holiness through her.

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And Evil

I will send a plague against herand bloodshed in her streets;the slain will fall within her,while the sword is against her on every side.Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood ShedKilled With The SwordKilling Will Happen

They will live there securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute judgments against all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofSafetyVineyardPlanting Vineyards

“Son of man, turn your face toward Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role Of

Speak to him and say: This is what the Lord God says:Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,the great monster lying in the middle of his Nile,who says, ‘My Nile is my own;I made it for myself.’

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesPeople Possessing Other Things

“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am going to bring a sword against you and wipe out man and animal from you.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The Sword

therefore, I am against you and your Nile. I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins, a desolate waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesEthiopiaAfricaLand Becoming EmptyPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder chafed, but he and his army received no compensation from Tyre for the labor he expended against it.

Verse ConceptsBaldnessBare ArmsThose Who Toiled

A sword will come against Egypt,and there will be anguish in Cushwhen the slain fall in Egypt,and its wealth is taken away,and its foundations are torn down.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsAfricaFoundations Of NationsKilled With The SwordTaking Possessions

He along with his people,ruthless men from the nations,will be brought in to destroy the land.They will draw their swords against Egyptand fill the land with the slain.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesKilling Many PeoplePeople Without Mercy

So I will execute judgments against Egypt,and they will know that I am Yahweh.

Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Look! I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGod OpposingThings Falling

I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall. They will know that I am Yahweh when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king and he wields it against the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod Strengthening PeopleThings FallingGod's Sword

For this is what the Lord God says:The sword of Babylon’s kingwill come against you!

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

Verse ConceptsSwordsWatchman

and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows his trumpet to warn the people.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For SignallingSeeing Situations

None of the sins he committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

Verse ConceptsGod Forgetting

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them: This is what the Lord God says to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed their flock?

Verse ConceptsNoblesFeeding AnimalsProphesy!Woe To Israel And JerusalemAbuse

“This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against the shepherds. I will demand My flock from them and prevent them from shepherding the flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths so that they will not be food for them.

Verse ConceptsChrist And His SheepCessationGod Saves The NeedyTaking Other People

“Son of man, turn your face toward Mount Seir and prophesy against it.

Say to it: This is what the Lord God says:Look! I am against you, Mount Seir.I will stretch out My hand against youand make you a desolate waste.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched Out

Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all the blasphemies you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate. They have been given to us to devour!’

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodIrreverenceAnimals Eating PeopleGod Hearing

You boasted against Me with your mouth, and spoke many words against Me. I heard it Myself!

Verse ConceptsFaultsToo Many WordsProud People

“This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became plunder.

Verse ConceptsMotives, Examples OfNationalismConquestFire Of God's AngerRejoicing In EvilTaking Possession

“I will no longer allow the insults of the nations to be heard against you, and you will not have to endure the reproach of the peoples anymore; you will no longer cause your nation to stumble.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsDo Not HinderInsulting Other PeopleFunhomecoming

“Son of man, turn your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him

Verse ConceptsGog and MagogNorthern Coalition

and say: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

Verse ConceptsNorthern Coalition

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