44 occurrences

'Broke' in the Bible

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodTwoLaw, Ten CommandmentsLeaders, PoliticalToolsWritingSplitting RocksCutting StonesStone ItemsTwo Stone TabletsBreaking The Ten CommandmentsGod Writing With His Finger

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningFighting One AnotherMothers And Sons

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordCordsYokesBreaking SticksGod Lifting PeopleThe Lord Is GodTenons And BarsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptslaveryBreaking Chains

Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.

Verse ConceptsVoicesWeepingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’

For both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfWilderness Of ZinDisloyalty

When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of the people.

Verse ConceptsThings Going BeforePriests In Action

Gideon and the 100 men who were with him went to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch after the sentries had been stationed. They blew their trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

Verse ConceptsBeginningNightOne Hundredgideon

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel 40 years.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsBackwardsPeople Tumblinglosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherLeadership QualitiesFalling Backwards

When war broke out again, David went out and fought against the Philistines. He defeated them with such a great force that they fled from him.

Verse ConceptsCarnagePeoples Who Fled

So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to engage the Philistines. Therefore, that place was named the Rock of Separation.

Verse ConceptsEscapingEscaping From People

Afterward, Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets To Stop Fighting

So three of the warriors broke through the Philistine camp and drew water from the well at the gate of Bethlehem. They brought it back to David, but he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationDrawing WaterPouring WaterBreaking Forthrisk

So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.Then Jehoiada the priest appointed guards for the Lord’s temple.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsDestruction Of Satan's WorksKilling Priests

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationShrinesThe Bronze SnakeSnakesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksAbandoning IdolsBronze For IdolsMemorabilia

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksBones

Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars of the Lord’s temple, the water carts, and the bronze reservoir, which were in the Lord’s temple, and carried the bronze to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonSeaSacrilegeBreaking ContainersPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing BronzeBronze Items For The Tabernacle

So the Three broke through the Philistine camp and drew water from the well at the gate of Bethlehem. They brought it back to David, but he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterPouring Water

After this, a war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahGiants

So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.

Verse ConceptsTemples, HeathenDestruction Of Satan's Works

For the sons of that wicked Athaliah broke into the Lord’s temple and even used the sacred things of the Lord’s temple for the Baals.”

Verse ConceptsTemples, HeathenSacrilege

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash took him to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the Lord’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease broke out on his forehead.

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanAnger, Sinful Examples

When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationSacrifice, In OtStonesAnnihilationDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;then fire broke out against Jacob,and anger flared up against Israel

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Them

They provoked the Lord with their deeds,and a plague broke out against them.

He broke their spirits with hard labor;they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

Verse ConceptsNo HelpThe Fact Of Toilhardwork

By His knowledge the watery depths broke open,and the clouds dripped with dew.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural Useclosure

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,and planted it with the finest vines.He built a tower in the middle of itand even dug out a winepress there.He expected it to yield good grapes,but it yielded worthless grapes.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

For long ago I broke your yoke;I tore off your chains.You insisted, “I will not serve!”On every high hilland under every green treeyou lie down like a prostitute.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryServanthood, And Worship Of GodShrinesYokesNot Serving GodSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At TreesBreaking Chains

They have returned to the sins of their ancestors who refused to obey My words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke My covenant I made with their ancestors.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodRefusing To HearDifferent GodsReturning to the oldBreaking The Covenant

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke bar from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationBreaking Chains

“Go say to Hananiah: This is what the Lord says, ‘You broke a wooden yoke bar, but in its place you will make an iron yoke bar.’

Verse ConceptsIron, Figurative Use OfWoodIron ObjectsBronze GatesBreaking Chains

This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them”—the Lord’s declaration.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTHusbandsKnowing God, Effects OfMarriage, Between God And His PeopleRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodUnion With Christ, Nature OfUnity, God's Goal OfBreaking The CovenantMarriage To GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod As A Husband

Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord’s temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir that were in the Lord’s temple, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonPillars For Solomon's Temple

“As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToPossibility Of DeathAuthority Delegated To People

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “As I live, I will bring down on his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, to occupy My sanctuary, you defiled My temple while you offered My food—the fat and the blood. You broke My covenant by all your detestable practices.

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesPollutionsForeigners In The Holy PlacesBreaking The CovenantFat Of The SacrificesUncircumcised In HeartCovenant Made At Sinai

As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them.

Verse ConceptsMessianic PropheciesCutting StonesStriking RocksChrist The RockIron Objectsstatues

The Lord says:I will not relent from punishing Tyrefor three crimes, even four,because they handed overa whole community of exiles to Edomand broke a treaty of brotherhood.

Verse ConceptsCovenant ObligationsProphets, Role OfAbominations, Judgments OfCovenant RelationshipsHatred Between RelativesThree Or FourHanding Over PeopleForgetting Things

Bible Theasaurus

Bankrupt (2 instances)
Better (302 instances)
Breach (52 instances)
Burst (49 instances)
Collapse (34 instances)
Dampen (1 instance)
Demote (2 instances)
Disclose (36 instances)
Discontinue (1 instance)
Discover (49 instances)
Erupt (4 instances)
Expose (42 instances)
Founder (7 instances)
Offend (33 instances)
Reveal (107 instances)
Separate (157 instances)
Smash (27 instances)
Soften (1 instance)
Split (48 instances)
Transgress (33 instances)
Uncover (39 instances)
Unwrap (1 instance)
Violate (24 instances)
Weaken (6 instances)

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