19 occurrences

'Poison' in the Bible

Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSerpentsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As Punishment

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

Verse ConceptsFlintClimates, Typesdrought, physicalSnakesSuffering, HardshipThirstAnimals, Types OfGod Providing WaterDry PlacesProvision From RocksScorpions

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

Verse ConceptsHuman WillFamilies, Nature OfFalse ConfidenceHeart, HumanParticipation, In SinPoisonRootsFruits Of SinBitter FoodBitterness

They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

Verse ConceptsDecayPoisonTeethWasteFamine ComingFamine Will Comehunger

Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholCobrasSerpentsSnakesThings Like Snakes

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

Verse ConceptsBeverages, FigurativeArrows, Figurative OfPoisonAnxiety, Examples OfThe AlmightySevere AfflictionsGod Appointed AfflictionsTerror Of GodArrows

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

Verse ConceptsSnakesBitter Food

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

Verse ConceptsTeeth

In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholPoisonSnakesThings Like SnakesSnakebitesalcoholism

And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

Verse ConceptsNestsCobrasSnakesAnimals, Types OfCrawlingPower Over SnakesChildren And The Kingdombaby

Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

Verse ConceptsPoisonRootsSerpentsSnakesBreaking SticksLack Of RejoicingThose Flying

They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

Verse ConceptsInsectsSpinning And WeavingSpiders

See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSnakebites

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

Verse ConceptsWanderersBitter Foodlonliness

Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

Verse ConceptsPloughingPoisonTilling The SoilBitter FoodNo Justice

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