Afflictions and Adversities

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

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God regulates the measure of afflictions

• Psalm 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
• Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
• Jeremiah 46:28 And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Determines the continuance of

• Genesis 15:13–14 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
• Numbers 14:33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
• Isaiah 10:25 For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
• Jeremiah 29:10 For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

Does not willingly send

• Lamentations 3:33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

Man is born to

• Job 5:6–7 For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Job 14:1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Saints appointed to

• 1 Thessalonians 3:3 so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.

Consequent upon the fall

• Genesis 3:16–19 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commande…

Sin produces

• Job 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
• Job 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
• Proverbs 1:31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Sinners corrected by

• 2 Samuel 12:14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
• Psalm 89:30–32 If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments, I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
• Isaiah 57:17 I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
• Acts 13:10–11 and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord? Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Im…

Often severe

• Job 16:7–16 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me. His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes. They open their mouths against me…
• Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
• Psalm 66:12 You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.
• Jonah 2:3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
• Revelation 7:14 “Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Always less than deserved

• Ezra 9:13 After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
• Psalm 103:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

Results of, good

• Genesis 50:20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this— to preserve the lives of many people.
• Exodus 1:11–12 So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
• Deuteronomy 8:15–16 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end H…
• Jeremiah 24:5–6 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down…
• Ezekiel 20:37 I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Tempered with mercy

• Psalm 78:38–39 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath. He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
• Psalm 106:43–46 Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. He made them objects of compassion to all who…
• Isaiah 30:18–21 Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him. O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer yo…
• Lamentations 3:32 Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
• Micah 7:7–9 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until…
• Nahum 1:12 This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

Of Saints

To be expected

• John 16:33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Acts 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Comparatively light

• Acts 20:23 I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
• Acts 24 Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul. When Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought im… (whole chapter)
• Romans 8:18 I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
• 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

Temporary

• Psalm 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
• Psalm 103:9 He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• Isaiah 54:7–8 “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
• John 16:20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
• 1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
• 1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

Joy under

• Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
• James 5:11 See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

End in joy and blessedness

• Psalm 126:5–6 Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
• Isaiah 61:2–3 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, to console the mourners in Zion — to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousne…
• Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
• 1 Peter 4:13–14 But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

Often arise from the profession of the gospel

• Matthew 24:9 Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
• 2 Timothy 3:11–12 my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God

• Deuteronomy 8:5 So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
• Psalm 119:75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
• Proverbs 3:12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
• 1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
• Hebrews 12:6–7 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
• Revelation 3:19 Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

Of the Wicked

God is glorified in

• Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.
• Ezekiel 38:22–23 I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and I will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I…

God holds in derision

• Psalm 37:13 but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
• Proverbs 1:26–27 in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Are multiplied

• Deuteronomy 31:17 On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
• Job 20:5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
• Job 21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Psalm 32:10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.

Continual

• Job 15:20 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
• Ecclesiastes 2:23 Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
• Isaiah 32:10 In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Often sudden

• Psalm 73:19 How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
• Proverbs 6:15 Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
• Isaiah 30:13 this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly — in an instant!
• Revelation 18:10 In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

Are often judicially sent

• Job 21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Psalm 107:17 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
• Jeremiah 30:15 Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

Are for examples to others

• Psalm 64:7–9 But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads. Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
• Zephaniah 3:6–7 “I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all…
• 1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
• 1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
• 2 Peter 2:6 if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

Are ineffectual for their conversion

• Exodus 9:30 But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”
• Isaiah 9:13 But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
• Jeremiah 2:30 “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
• Haggai 2:17 I struck you— all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

Their persecution of saints, a cause of

• Deuteronomy 30:7 Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.
• Psalm 55:19 God will hear and humiliate them — the One enthroned for the ages — Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
• Zechariah 2:9 I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
• 2 Thessalonians 1:6 After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Impenitence is a cause of

• Proverbs 1:30–31 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Ezekiel 24:13 Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
• Amos 4:6–12 “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; ano…
• Zechariah 7:11–12 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from th…
• Revelation 2:21 Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
• Revelation 22 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And th… (whole chapter)

Sometimes humble them

• 1 Kings 21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.

Frequently harden

• Nehemiah 9:28–29 But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion. You admonished them to turn back to Your l…
• Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Produce slavish fear

• Job 15:24 Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
• Psalm 73:19 How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
• Jeremiah 49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
• Jeremiah 49:5 Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

Saints should not be alarmed at

• Proverbs 3:25–26 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

Exemplified

In Pharaoh and the Egyptians

• Exodus 9:14–15 Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
• Exodus 14:24–25 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion. He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD…

Ahaziah

• 2 Kings 1:1–4 After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” But the angel of the…

Gehazi

• 2 Kings 5:27 Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous— as white as snow.

Jehoram

• 2 Chronicles 21:12–19 Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah, but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the…

Uzziah

• 2 Chronicles 26:19–21 Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead. When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous fore…

Ahaz, etc

• 2 Chronicles 28:5–8 So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This hap…
• 2 Chronicles 28:22 In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

Forsaken by Friends in: Instances of

• Job 2:9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
• Job 19:13–19 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mo…

David

• Psalm 31:11–12 Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends — they flee when they see me on the street. I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
• Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
• Psalm 88:8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
• Psalm 88:18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

Jesus

• Matthew 26:56 But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

Paul

• 2 Timothy 4:16 At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

National Lessons from

• Joel 1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel: Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers? Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to… (whole chapter)
• Joel 2 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near— a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such… (whole chapter)

Unclassified Scriptures Relating to

• Genesis 3:16–17 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commande…
• Deuteronomy 8:5 So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
• 2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
• Job 3:1–26 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And this is what he said: “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’ If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it. May darkness and gloom recla…
• Job 5:6–7 For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Job 5:17–18 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
• Job 6:1–30 Then Job replied: “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas — no wonder my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed again…
• Job 7:2–6 Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me. When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted…
• Job 9:18 He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
• Job 12:5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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Benefits of 1ki 8:33,35,47-53; Deu 4:30,31; 30:1,2; 2ch 6:28-31; Job 5:6-11,17; 23:10; Psa 94:12,13; Pro 3:11,12; Heb 12:5; Ecc 7:2,3; Isa 19:20,22; 26:9; 27:9; Jer 2:27; 22:22,23; 31:19; Lam 3:27,28; Ezk 20:37,43; 6:9; Hos 2:6,7; 5:15; Rom 5:3,4; 8:17,28; 2co 4:17; Php 1:12-14,19; Heb 12:5; Jas 1:2-4,12; 1pe 1:7; 4:14

Benefits of, Illustrated

• Genesis 22:12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
• Genesis 22:16–18 saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies. An…
• Genesis 32:11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
• Genesis 42:21 Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
• Exodus 9:27–28 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
• Exodus 10:7 Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”
• Exodus 10:16–17 Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”
• Exodus 12:31–33 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.” And in order to send them out of the land quickly, t…
• Numbers 21:7 Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
• Judges 10:6–8 And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him. So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them int…

Exemplified

Joseph's brethren

• Genesis 42:21 Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

Joseph

• Genesis 45:5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
• Genesis 45:7–8 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh — lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Israel

Josiah

Hezekiah

Manasseh

Jonah

Prodigal son

Consolation in

Deliverance from

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Design of

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Despondency in

Dispensation of God

From Satan

See Temptation

See IMPENITENCE IN

See OBDURACY IN, below

Mocking At

Murmuring in

See Murmuring

Obduracy in

As a Judgment

See JUDGEMENT

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Instances of

Pharaoh

Asa

Ahaz

Penitence in: Instances of

Pharaoh

David

Nebuchadnezzar

Levites

Prayer in

See Prayer

Prayer in, Answered

See PRAYER, ANSWERED

Prayer for the Afflicted

See Intercession

Resignation in

Resignation in, Exemplified

See Resignation

Instances of Resignation in

Aaron, at the death of Nadab and Abihu

Against his house were foretold

David, at the death of his child

The Shunammite woman

Jesus, in Gethsemane

Paul and Silas in prison