Worm

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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

General scriptures concerning

• Exodus 16:20 But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
• Exodus 16:24 So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.
• Jonah 4:7 When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

Herod Agrippa I was eaten by, (Josephus confirmed this)

• Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Figurative

• Job 25:6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
• Isaiah 41:14 Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
• Isaiah 66:24 “As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Of remorse

• Mark 9:44
• Mark 9:46
• Mark 9:48 where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’