48 occurrences

'Workers' in the Bible

And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersStiffnecked PeopleObstinate Individualsmagic

And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicFliesBoth Men And Animals AffectedUnable To Do Other Thingsmagic

Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodHardness Of HeartMiracles, Responses ToMission, Of IsraelPower Of God, ExpressedStiffnecked PeopleObstinate IndividualsGod Writing With His Fingermagic

And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsPain

And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFamiliar SpiritsMediumsSeeking GodSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsOccultismWitchcraftDivinationFortunetellingNecromancyGod OpposingAvoid SpiritismThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelDeath Penalty For Heresypsychics

And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFireChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSacrifice, In OtSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfPagan PracticesInfanticideHuman SacrificesFortunetellingNecromancyOccultismTime PassingSorcerypsychics

And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHousehold GodsMediumsSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedAbandoning IdolsThe Law Given To IsraelOccultismwitchespsychics

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

Verse ConceptsCarpentersWisdom, Human NatureMen Workingcraftsmanship

Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;

Verse ConceptsPloughmen

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsHuman SacrificesAncestral WorshipSorcerypsychics

Had authority over the transport workers, giving directions to all who were doing any sort of work; and among the Levites there were scribes and overseers and door-keepers.

Verse ConceptsSecretary

After him Malchijah, one of the gold-workers to the Nethinim and the traders, made good the wall opposite the doorway of Hammiphkad and as far as the way up to the angle.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesTemple Assistants

And between the way up to the angle and the sheep door, the gold-workers and the traders made good the wall.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Lod and Ono, the valley of expert workers.

Verse Conceptscraftsmanship

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

Verse ConceptsBlackShadowsHiding From God

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

Verse ConceptsEvil AssociationsChrist Driving Out PeopleGod HearingGod Paid Attention To Me

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorantatheism

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Verse ConceptsDeceitful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedEvil PlansPeace, In The WickedMischiefEvil AssociationsTaking Other PeopleNo Peace

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Verse ConceptsEvildoersDownfall

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodPrayer, Practicalities OfCharacter Of WickedEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorant

Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

Verse ConceptsEvildoersReady To KillProtection From Enemies

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

Verse ConceptsTreacheryGod Waking UpPsalm InterjectionsPunishment of the The Wickedtraitors

Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

Verse ConceptsBoasting, CondemnedSpeech, Negative Aspects OfEvildoersarrogance

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

Verse ConceptsSupportwickedness

This is the door of the Lord's house; the workers of righteousness will go in through it.

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In OtRighteous, TheWay, TheDestruction Of The Wicked

And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.

Verse ConceptsFlaxHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLinenSpinning And WeavingDespair

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Verse ConceptsBackbitingRebellion, Of IsraelWicked Described AsSpreading StoriesThings Like Bronzeapostasy

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceGod, Righteousness OfQuestionsApparent InjusticePartialityDoubting God's JusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Wicked ProsperprosperingQuestioning Life

And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town.

Verse ConceptsEast And WestGathering FoodMeasuring Jerusalem And The Land

It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPloughmenFarming

And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyAchievementWisdom, Source Of HumanAstrologersMagiciansTen TimesWise MenGod Giving Understandingpsychics

Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king.

Verse ConceptsStandingAnger Of Man, CauseAstrologersDivinationOccultismDrugs

Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;

Verse ConceptsAstrologyClairvoyancesNecromancyPeople's Inability To UnderstandDisclosuresUnable To Understandpsychics

Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.

Verse ConceptsStarsAstrologersClairvoyancesMagiciansNecromancyOccultismpsychics

O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense.

Verse ConceptsMysterySpirit, Emotional Aspects OfEasy For People

There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;

Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice OfInsightAstrologersGod Giving Understandingpsychics

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsGrainHarvestOccupationsDestroying VineyardsPloughmenNot Reaping What You Sow

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches

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