15 occurrences

'Lack' in the Bible

peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentGathering MuchLittle FoodGathering FoodPlenty For The PoorSurplus

a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Description OfBrass

Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Verse ConceptsMadmen

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Verse ConceptsHuntingNo Food

He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Effects OfDeath For Other ReasonsFalling Away From God

The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Verse ConceptsThe Lips Of The RighteousLipsPoverty, SpiritualKind WordsDeath For Other Reasons

Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

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