Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 32:11 OT

  Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

• Genesis 42:21 OT

  They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

• Exodus 9:27 OT

  Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

• Exodus 9:28 OT

  Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

• Exodus 10:7 OT

  Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

• Exodus 10:16 OT

  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

• Exodus 10:17 OT

  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

• Exodus 12:31-33 OT

  He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and…

• Numbers 21:7 OT

  The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

• Judges 10:6-8 OT

  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They…

• Judges 10:10 OT

  The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”

• 1 Samuel 12:9 OT

  “But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

• 1 Samuel 12:10 OT

  They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

• 1 Kings 13:1-10 OT

  Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to…

• 2 Chronicles 15:4 OT

  But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

• 2 Chronicles 33:12 OT

  When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 33:13 OT

  He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

• Ezra 9:5-15 OT

  At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God; and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God;…

• Nehemiah 9:32 OT

  Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our…

• Job 34:31 OT

  “For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

• Job 34:32 OT

  Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

• Job 40:1-5 OT

  Moreover Yahweh answered Job, “Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” Then Job answered Yahweh, “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have…

• Psalms 78:34 OT

  When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

• Psalms 78:35 OT

  They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.