Anthropomorphisms
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Anthropomorphisms’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Exodus 20:11 OT
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
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but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock,…
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Hebrews 4:4 NT
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”
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Hebrews 4:10 NT
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
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Isaiah 40:28 OT
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
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Isaiah 59:16 OT
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
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Isaiah 63:5 OT
I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.
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Mark 6:6 NT
He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
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Psalms 2:4 OT
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
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Psalms 37:13 OT
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
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Psalms 59:8 OT
But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
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I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
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Psalms 44:23 OT
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
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Psalms 78:61 OT
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
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Judges 10:16 OT
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
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Psalms 95:10 OT
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
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Hebrews 3:10 NT
Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
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Hebrews 3:17 NT
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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Isaiah 62:8 OT
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
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Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of…