33 occurrences in 7 translations

'Inflict' in the Bible

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfTemporal BlessingsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldoctorsdiseasesCommands, in OTHealingGod As DoctorI Am The LordGod HealsHealth PromisedNames Involving GodPay Attention To God!Results Of Keeping The CommandmentsDiseaseGod Healing Our LandSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

"Any vow and any sworn oath of a pledge to inflict on herself, her husband can confirm it or her husband can nullify it.

Verse ConceptsHusband And WifeWifeMan And WomanA Good Husband

So Moses spoke to the people, “Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the Lord’s vengeance on them.

Verse ConceptsGod Executes Vengeance

The Lord will remove all sickness from you; He will not put on you all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldiseasesHatredImmunityHealth PromisedDiseaseSicknessHateProtection From EnemiesIllnessProtection From Dangerhaters

then he will inflict extraordinary plagues on you and your children great and lasting plagues and severe and lasting illnesses.

Verse ConceptsDiseaseIllness

He will inflict on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they won't be curable.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Other ThingsDisease

The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawSicknessIllness

"Then the generation to come your descendants after you and the foreigners who come from afar will see plagues and illnesses infecting the land that the LORD will inflict on it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersGenerationsPeople From Far Away

Then the LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate and persecute you."

Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedThe Curse Of The LawOvercoming EnemiesEnemiesEnemy Attackshaterscurses

They attacked the army and were drawn away from the city as they began to inflict casualties on the soldiers along the roads to Bethel and Gibeah, just as they had done the other times. About 30 soldiers from Israel fell in battle there and in the fields.

Verse ConceptsThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to inflict casualties on about thirty men of Israel because they thought, "They will be completely defeated before us as in the first battle."

Verse ConceptsThirtyKilling Within Israel

"So now, if he doesn't inflict punishment in his anger, then he doesn't keep track of your many transgressions.

for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

Verse ConceptsSheddingRunning After EvilFeet In ActionReady To Kill

So when the Lord has completed all His work [of judgment] on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit [the thoughts, the declarations, and the actions] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the haughtiness of his pride.”

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsExile, in assyriaHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Results OfSuperiorityBusiness EthicsAssyria, Prophecies OfHaughtinessThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaHumbling The ProudEnd Of ActionsGod Opposes The Proud

Therefore the Lord God of Hostswill inflict an emaciating diseaseon the well-fed of Assyria,and He will kindle a burning fireunder its glory.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

Yet I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.

Verse ConceptsMourning Due To CatastropheNatural Disasters

And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, all those who fight [against] her and her stronghold, and those who inflict her shall be like dream, a vision of [the] night.

Verse ConceptsLike A Dream

The Lord says, "Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you."

Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSnakebites

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

For look, on the city that is called {by} my name I [am] beginning to inflict harm, and you indeed, will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I [am] summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," {declares} Yahweh of hosts.'

Verse ConceptsCityGod Will Bring HarmA Place For God's Name

My eyes inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Verse ConceptsRenewed HeartI Am Sufferingfate

Then they will know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them.”’

Verse ConceptsUseless LabourGod Can Harm People

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

Even if they go into exile among their enemies, from there I will order the sword to kill them. I will fix my gaze on them to inflict disaster, and not to do good.

Verse ConceptsExile, in assyriaCommands, in OTExile In ProspectGod Can Harm People

If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but to save the world.

Verse ConceptsChrist JudgingNot JudgingIf You Do Not Keep Commands

But they will do all these [hurtful] things to you for My name’s sake [because you bear My name and are identified with Me], for they do not know the One who sent Me.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of believersGod, Revelation OfIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToThe One Who Sent ChristReasons Why The World Hates ChristiansPersecution

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod Has AngerIs God Unjust?Like MenPerspective

On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.

Verse ConceptsFraudRobbing PeopleWronging Other PeopleBeing Gaycheaters

That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,

Verse ConceptsFightingAirAsceticism, Teachings OfGames, SpiritualBoxingUseless LabouruncertaintyRacetrainingfootball

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.

Verse ConceptsSnakesTailsThings Like SnakesOther References To MouthsPeople Possibly Doing EvilHurt

Just as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, inflict on her just as much torture and misery. In her heart she says, "I am a queen on a throne, not a widow. I will never see misery.'

Verse ConceptsBabylonProud HeartsFalse ConfidenceHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Examples OfQueensTortureWidowsArrogance, Characterizes The WickedNot MourningGod Troubling

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