Superstition

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Acts 25:19 NT

  but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

• 1 Samuel 4:3 OT

  When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out…

• 1 Samuel 5:5 OT

  Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

• 1 Kings 20:23 OT

  The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

• Jeremiah 44:17-19 OT

  But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of…

• Daniel 4:8 OT

  But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,

• Daniel 4:9 OT

  “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

• Jonah 1:4-16 OT

  But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into…

• Matthew 14:26 NT

  When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.

• Mark 6:49 NT

  but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

• Mark 6:50 NT

  for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

• Mark 6:14 NT

  King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”

• Mark 6:16 NT

  But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”

• Matthew 8:34 NT

  Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

• Acts 12:14 NT

  When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

• Acts 12:15 NT

  They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

• Acts 19:13-19 NT

  But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief…

• Acts 28:6 NT

  But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.