Anthropomorphisms

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Genesis 2:2 OT

  On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

• Genesis 2:3 OT

  God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

• Genesis 2:19 OT

  Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

• Genesis 6:6 OT

  Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

• Genesis 9:16 OT

  The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

• Genesis 11:5 OT

  Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

• Genesis 11:7 OT

  Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

• Genesis 18:17-19 OT

  Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do, since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and…

• Genesis 18:21 OT

  I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

• Genesis 18:33 OT

  Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

• Genesis 19:29 OT

  When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

• Genesis 22:12 OT

  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

• Genesis 28:13 OT

  Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.

• Genesis 35:13 OT

  God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

• Exodus 2:24 OT

  God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

• Exodus 3:8 OT

  I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the…

• Exodus 14:24 OT

  In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

• Exodus 20:5 OT

  you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Exodus 31:17 OT

  It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”

• Exodus 32:14 OT

  So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.

• Numbers 11:25 OT

  Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

• Judges 2:18 OT

  When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and…

• 1 Samuel 15:35 OT

  Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:16 OT

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of…