Nature of God

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.

Appearances of

To Adam

• Genesis 3:8–21 Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?” “I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied…

To Abraham

• Genesis 18:2–33 And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground. “My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, that you may wa…

To Jacob, at Beth-el

• Genesis 35:7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
• Genesis 35:9 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

To Moses, in the flaming bush

• Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

To Moses, at Sinai

• Exodus 19:16–24 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the…
• Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

To Moses and Joshua

• Deuteronomy 31:14–15 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting. Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the…

To Israel

• Judges 2:1–5 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you, and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear d…

To Gideon

• Judges 6:11–24 Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” “P…

To Solomon

• 1 Kings 3:5 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
• 1 Kings 9:2 the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
• 1 Kings 11:9 Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
• 2 Chronicles 1:7–12 That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!” Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place. Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a…
• 2 Chronicles 7:12–22 the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, and if My people who are called b…

To Isaiah

• Isaiah 6:1–5 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they we…

To Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 1:26–28 Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man. From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be H…

Name of

Proclaimed

• Exodus 34:5 And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
• Exodus 34:14 For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

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• Exodus 6:3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
• Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name.
• Psalm 83:18 May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.

To be reverenced

• Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
• Deuteronomy 5:11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
• Deuteronomy 28:58 If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name— the LORD your God—
• Psalm 111:9 He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.
• Micah 4:5 Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
• 1 Timothy 6:1 All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.

Praised

• Psalm 34:3 Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
• Psalm 72:17 May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

Not to be profaned

• Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
• Leviticus 18:21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 19:12 You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 20:3 And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.
• Leviticus 21:6 They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
• Leviticus 22:2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 22:32 You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,
• Deuteronomy 5:11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
• Psalm 139:20 who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
• Proverbs 30:9 Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Profaned

• Psalm 139:20 who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
• Matthew 26:74 At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

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Repentance attributed to

• Genesis 6:6–7 And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.”
• Exodus 32:14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
• Judges 2:18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
• 1 Samuel 15:35 And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
• 2 Samuel 24:16 But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
• 1 Chronicles 21:15 Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the J…
• Psalm 106:45 And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
• Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
• Amos 7:3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
• Jonah 3:10 When God saw their actions— that they had turned from their evil ways— He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

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Rejected

By Israel

• 1 Samuel 8:7–8 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king. Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they…
• Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
• Isaiah 66:4 So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

Saul

• 1 Samuel 15:26 “I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”

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Comforter

• Job 35:10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

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Covenant keeping

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Anger of

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Attributes of

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Condescension of

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Unclassified Scriptures Relating to

• Job 5:8–20 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him— the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields. He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety. He thwarts the schemes of…
• Job 9:2–35 “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand. God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered? He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns…
• Job 10:2–18 I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me. Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked? Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees? Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man…
• Job 12:7–20 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? The life of every living thing is in His han…
• Job 26:7–14 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing. He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight. He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud. He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the bound…
• Job 33:12–30 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks? For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices. In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber…
• Job 34:10–30 Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly. For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences. Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert…
• Job 37:1–24 “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voic…
• Job 38:1–41 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge? Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who fi…
• Job 39:1–30 “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn? Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth? They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn. Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; the…

Access to

• Deuteronomy 4:7 For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
• Psalm 24:3–4 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
• Psalm 43:2 For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
• Psalm 65:4 Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
• Psalm 145:18–19 The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
• Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant — My loving devotion promised to David.
• Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• John 10:7 So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
• John 10:9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

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Compassion of

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Creator

• Genesis 1:1–28 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good…
• Genesis 1:31 And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.
• Genesis 2:1–25 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that…
• Genesis 5:1–2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness. Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
• Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
• Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
• 1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
• 2 Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
• 1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
• Nehemiah 9:6 You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

Creator of Man

• Genesis 1:26–27 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and f…
• Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
• Genesis 5:1–2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness. Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
• Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
• Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
• Numbers 16:22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
• Numbers 27:16 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
• Deuteronomy 4:32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
• Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
• Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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Eternity of

• Genesis 21:33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
• Exodus 3:15 God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers — the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob — has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
• Exodus 15:18 The LORD will reign forever and ever!”
• Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
• Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
• 1 Chronicles 16:36 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”
• 1 Chronicles 29:10 Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
• Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites— Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah— said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
• Job 36:26 Indeed, God is great — beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
• Psalm 9:7 But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.

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Faithfulness of

• Genesis 6:18 But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
• Genesis 9:15–16 I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every…
• Genesis 21:1 Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
• Genesis 24:27 saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
• Genesis 28:15 Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
• Genesis 32:10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
• Exodus 2:24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Exodus 6:4–5 I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners. Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
• Exodus 12:41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 34:6 Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Fatherhood of

• Exodus 4:22 Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
• Deuteronomy 14:1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
• Deuteronomy 32:5–6 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation. Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established 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.
• 1 Chronicles 28:6 And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
• 1 Chronicles 29:10 Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
• Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
• Psalm 89:26 He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
• Isaiah 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
• Isaiah 8:18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

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Favor of

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Foreknowledge of 1sa 23:10-12; Isa 42:9; 44:7; 45:11; 46:9,10; 48:3,5,6; Jer 1:5; Dan 2:28,29; Mat 6:8; 24:36; Act 15:18; Rom 8:29; 11:2; 1pe 1:2

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Glory of

• Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
• Exodus 19:16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
• Exodus 19:18–19 Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. And as the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.
• Exodus 20:18–19 When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance. “Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
• Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
• Exodus 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
• Exodus 33:18–20 Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name — the LORD — in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” But He added, “You cannot see…
• Exodus 33:22–23 and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
• Exodus 34:5 And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
• Exodus 34:29–35 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD. Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him. But Moses…

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Goodness of

• Exodus 33:19 “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name — the LORD — in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Exodus 34:6 Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Deuteronomy 30:9 So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
• 1 Chronicles 16:34 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
• 2 Chronicles 5:13 The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was fi…
• 2 Chronicles 7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
• Psalm 8:1–9 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens. From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger. Wh…
• Psalm 17:7 Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
• Psalm 25:8–10 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way. All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
• Psalm 33:5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.

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Grace of

• Genesis 6:8–9 Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD. This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
• Genesis 18:26 So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
• Genesis 18:28 suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

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Instances of Special Grace

To Enoch

To Noah

To Abraham

To Jacob

To Moses

To Solomon

Guide

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Holiness of

See SIN, ALIENATES FROM GOD

See GOD, PERFECTION OF

See GOD, RIGHTEOUSNESS OF

Human Forms and Appearance of

See Anthropomorphisms

Immutable

Impartial

Incomprehensible

Symbolized

By the pillar of fire

By the darkness of the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle

By the general structure of the Most Holy Place, see

See GOD, UNSEARCHABLE

Infinite

See GOD, INCOMPREHENSIBLE

See GOD, UBIQUITY OF

See GOD, UNSEARCHABLE

Invisible

See GOD, INCOMPREHENSIBLE

See GOD, INFINITE

See GOD, UNSEARCHABLE

Jealous

Judge, and His Justice

See JESUS, JUDGE

See GOVERNMENT, GOD IN

See HOLINESS OF GOD, above

See RIGHTEOUSNESS OF, below

See also JUDGMENT, GENERAL

See Judgments

See SIN, PUNISHMENT OF

King

See SOVEREIGN, below

Knowledge of

See GOD, FOREKNOWLEDGE OF

See GOD, WISDOM OF

Longsuffering of

See GOD, LOVE OF

See GOD, MERCY OF

Longsuffering of, Abused

Love of

Love of, Exemplified

Mercy of

See GOD, LONGSUFFERING OF

See GOD, LOVE OF

Omnipotent

For uses of the term "Almighty" consult a concordance

See CREATOR, above

See GOD, POWER OF, below

See GOD, PRESERVER, below

Onnipresent

See PRESENCE OF, UBIQUITOUS

Omniscient

See GOD, KNOWLEDGE OF

See GOD, WISDOM OF

Perfection of

See GOD, HOLINESS OF

See GOD, JUDGE, AND HIS JUSTICE

Personality of

See GOD, UNITY OF, below

Power of

See GOD, OMNIPOTENT, above

Presence of

See GOD, OMNIPRESENT, above

See GOD, PRESERVER, below

Preserver

His Preserving Care Exemplified

To Noah and his family, at the time of the flood

To Abraham and Sarah, in Egypt

in Gerar

To Lot, when Sodom was destroyed

To Hagar, when Abraham cast her out

To Jacob, when he fled from Laban, his father-in-law

when he met Esau

as he journeyed in the land of Canaan

To Joseph, in Egypt

To Moses, in his infancy

To the Israelites, in bringing about their deliverance from bondage

in exempting the land of Goshen from the plague of flies

in preserving their cattle from the plague of murrain

in exempting the land of Goshen from the plague of darkness

in saving the firstborn, when the plague of death destroyed the firstborn of Egypt

deliverance from Egypt

in the wilderness

Victories over the Canaanites under Joshua

under Othniel

under Ehud

under Shamgar

under Deborah

under Gideon

under Jephthah

on account of Samuel's intercession

under David

Ahab

Delivering the kingdom of Israel from Syria

delivering Israel by Jeroboam II 2KI 14:26,27

by Abijah

in delivering from the oppressions of the king of Syria

To the kingdom of Judah: in delivering from Egypt

the Ethiopian host

in giving peace with other nations

delivering them from the army of the Assyrians

To David

Hezekiah

Jeremah and Baruch

Daniel and the three Hebrew captives

Jonah

The wise men of the east

Jesus and his parents

Peter

Paul and Silas

Paul

See AFFLICTION, COMFORT IN

See Faith

See God

See Saviour

See POOR, GOD'S CARE OF

See GOD, GRACE OF

See instances under the sub-topic: GOD, PROVIDENCE OF

Providence of

Instances of

Saving Noah

The call of Abraham

Protecting Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech

The deliverance of Lot

The care of Isaac

The mission of Joseph

Warning Pharaoh about the famine

Delivering the Israelites

The pillar of cloud

Dividing the Red Sea

Delaying and destroying Pharaoh

Purifying the waters of Marah

Supplying manna and quail

Supplying water at Meribah

Protection of homes while at feasts

In the conquest of Canaan

Saving David's army

The revolt of the ten tribes

Fighting the battles of Israel

Restoring Manasseh after his conversion

Feeding Elijah and the widow

In prospering Hezekiah

In prospering Asa

In prospering Jehoshaphat

In prospering Uzziah

In prospering Jotham

In prospering JOB

In prospering Daniel

In turning the heart of the king of Assyria to favor the Jews

In rescuing Jeremiah

Restoration of the Jews

Rescuing the Jews from Haman's plot, the Book of Esther

Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem

Warning Joseph in dreams

Warning the wise men from the east

Restoring Epaphroditus

In the banishment of John to Patmos

See GOD, GOODNESS OF

See GOD, PRESERVER, above

See OVERRULING INTERPOSITIONS OF, below

Providence of, Overruling Interpositions of the

See >GOD, GOODNESS OF

See GOD, PRESERVER

Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted

See BLINDNESS, SPIRITUAL

Instances of

Elijah's trials

Job's

Israelites

Righteousness of

See GOD, HOLINESS OF

See GOD, JUDGE, AND HIS JUSTICE

Saviour

See GOD, PRESERVER, above

Self-existent

See GOD, ETERNITY OF, above

Sovereign

See GOD, POWER OF

A Spirit

Truth

See GOD, FAITHFULNESS OF, above

See GOD, JUDGE, AND HIS JUSTICE, above

See GOD, RIGHTEOUSNESS OF, above

See also [1867]TRUTH

Ubiquitous

See GOD, ETERNITY OF, above

See GOD, INFINITE, above

See GOD, OMNIPRESENT, above

See GOD, POWER OF, above

See GOD, PRESENCE OF, above

See GOD, PROVIDENCE OF, above

Unchangeable

See IMMUTABLE

Unity of

Unsearchable

See Mysteries

Voice of

See Anthropomorphism

Wisdom of

See GOD, KNOWLEDGE OF, above

See GOD, OMNISCIENT, above

Works of

See Creation

See GOD, CREATOR

See Works