6 occurrences in 12 translations

'Blows' in the Bible

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

Verse ConceptsChastisementIndifferenceLionsResponseAfflictions Of The WickedAdmonition, RecievingSmitten CheeksKilling ProphetsUseless Labour

“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

Verse ConceptseastWeather, As God's JudgmentWinnowingHot WeatherClean ObjectsDirection

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

Verse ConceptsHealingHope, In GodHope, Nature OfPeace, Human Search ForZion, As A SymbolSmitten CheeksFear Will ComeGod Hating PeopleNo HealingNo PeaceHope And Healing

And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Verse ConceptsArrestingCruelty, examples ofFloggingAnger, HumanHousesImprisonmentsPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects Ofjail

"And Edom will become as a horror, {everyone who passes by it} will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.

Verse ConceptsRidicule, Nature OfScoffingDisdainHissingMade A Horror

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