36 occurrences

'Hand' in the Bible

The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”

Verse ConceptsPeople Of JudahThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

Verse ConceptsdefeatMiseryGod OpposingGod Harmed Them

When the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorCruelty, God's attitude toGrace, In OtSensitivitySympathyGod Saving From EnemiesGod With Specific PeopleGod Showed Mercy

So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them OutSurvivors Of The Nations

The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand, so that he prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualPower, HumanThe Spirit Of The LordJudging IsraelThose God Gave Into Their Handsempowerment

Ehud stretched out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly.

Verse ConceptsMurderStomachsThighsOther Right Parts

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was undisturbed for eighty years.

Verse ConceptsConquest80 To 100 YearsTime Of Peace

And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

Verse ConceptsCommander

I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his many troops to the river Kishon, and I will give him into your hand.’”

Verse ConceptsRiver KishonThose God Gave Into Their Hands

But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

The hand of the sons of Israel pressed heavier and heavier upon Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin the king of Canaan.

“She reached out her hand for the tent peg,And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head;And she shattered and pierced his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHistoryWhy Does This Happen?God Will Cause DefeatMiraclesgideon

Then the angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

Verse ConceptsStaffFire From HeavenBurning SacrificesDisappearance

Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

Verse ConceptsThree Hundred And Above

His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Handsgideon

Gideon said, “All right, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will thrash your bodies with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

Verse ConceptsWhipsWhipping

He came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”

Verse ConceptsMan's Work Finished

Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son, also your son’s son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.”

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenThe Kingdom Of Othersgideon

for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;

Verse ConceptsDeliverersRisking

So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise.”

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersAxesTools

The Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationTo Be Given Into One's Hands

So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord gave them into his hand.

Verse ConceptsFighting EnemiesThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon; when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.

Verse ConceptsThose Not Saved

When I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's HandsThose Not SavedRiskingrisk

The Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, so that he tore him as one tears a young goat though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the Lord and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionFear, Of DeathFear Of Death

Then Samson said to the boy who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”

Verse ConceptsTaking By The Hand

Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you.”

When you enter, you will come to a secure people with a spacious land; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.”

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

They said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Aaron’s son, stood before it to minister in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease?” And the Lord said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

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