HOBAB

    ‘And Moses said unto Hobab … Come thou with us, and
    we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good
    concerning Israel.’–NUM. x. 29.
There is some doubt with regard to the identity of this Hobab. Probably
he was a man of about the same age as Moses, his brother-in-law, and a
son of Jethro, a wily Kenite, a Bedouin Arab. Moses begs him to join
himself to his motley company, and to be to him in the wilderness
‘instead of eyes.’ What did Moses want a man for, when he had the
cloud? What do we want common-sense for, when we have God’s Spirit?
What do we want experience and counsel for, when we have divine
guidance promised to us? The two things work in together. The cloud led
the march, but it was very well to have a man that knew all about the
oases and the wells, the situation of which was known only to the
desert-born tribes, and who could teach the helpless slaves from Goshen
the secrets of camp life. So Moses pressed Hobab to change his
position, to break with his past, and to launch himself into an
altogether new and untried sort of life.
And what does he plead with him as the reason? ‘We will do thee good,
for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.’ Probably Hobab looked
rather shy at the security, for I suppose he was no worshipper of
Jehovah, and he said, ‘No; I had rather go home to my own people and my
own kindred and my father’s house where I fit in, and keep to my own
ways, and have something a little more definite to lay hold of than
your promise, or the promise of your Jehovah that lies behind it. These
are not solid, and I am going back to my tribe.’ But Moses pressed and
he at last consented, and the following verses suggest that the
arrangement was made satisfactorily, and that the journeyings began
prosperously. In the Book of Judges we find traces of the presence of
Hobab’s descendants as incorporated among the people of Israel. One of
them came to be somebody, the Jael who struck the tent-peg through the
temples of the sleeping Sisera, for she is called ‘the wife of Heber
the _Kenite_.’ Probably, then, in some sense Hobab must have become a
worshipper of Jehovah, and have cast in his lot with his brother-in-law
and his people. I do not set Hobab up as a shining example. We do not
know much about his religion. But it seems to me that this little
glimpse into a long-forgotten and unimportant life may teach us two or
three things about the venture of faith, the life of faith, and the
reward of faith.
I. The venture of faith.
I have already said that Hobab had nothing in the world to trust to
except Moses’ word, and Moses’ report of God’s Word. ‘We will do you
good; God has said that He will do good to us, and you shall have your
share in it.’ It was a grave thing, and, in many circumstances, would
have been a supremely foolish thing, credulous to the verge of
insanity, to risk all upon the mere promise of one in Moses’ position,
who had so little in his own power with which to fulfil the promise;
and who referred him to an unseen divinity, somewhere or other; and so
drew bills upon heaven and futurity, and did not feel himself at all
bound to pay them when they fell due, unless God should give him the
cash to do it with. But Hobab took the plunge, he ventured all upon
these two promises–Moses’ word, and God’s word that underlay it.
Now that is just what we have to do. For, after all talking about
reasons for belief, and evidences of religion, and all the rest of it,
it all comes to this at last–will you risk everything on Jesus
Christ’s bare word? There are plenty of reasons for doing so, but what
I wish to bring out is this, that the living heart and root of true
Christianity is neither more nor less than the absolute and utter
reliance upon nothing else but Christ, and therefore on His word. He
did not even condescend to give reasons for that reliance, for His most
solemn assurance was just this, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you.’ That
is as much as to say, ‘If you do not see in Me, without any more
argument, reason enough for believing Me, you do not see Me at all.’
Christ did not argue–He asserted, and in default of all other proof,
if I might venture to say so, He put His own personality into the
scales and said, ‘There, that will outweigh everything.’ So no wonder
that ‘they were astonished at His doctrine,’–not so much at the
substance of it as at the tone of it, ‘for He taught them _with
authority_.’
But what right had He to teach them with authority? What right has He
to present Himself there in front of us and proclaim, ‘I say unto you,
and there is an end of it’? The heart and essence of Christian faith is
doing, in a far sublimer fashion, precisely what this wild Arab did,
when he uprooted himself from the conditions in which his life had
grown up, and flung himself into an unknown future, on bare trust in a
bare word. Jesus Christ asks us to do the same by Him. Whether His word
comes to us revealing, or commanding, or promising, it is absolute,
and, for His true followers, ends all controversy, all hesitation, all
reluctance. When He commands it is ours to obey and live. And when He
promises it is for us to twine all the tendrils of our expectations
round that faithful word, and by faith to make ‘the anchor of the soul,
sure and steadfast.’ The venture of faith takes a _word_ for the most
solid thing in the universe, and the Incarnate Word of God for the
basis of all our hope, the authority for all our conduct, ‘the
Master-light of all our seeing.’
II. Hobab suggests to us, secondly–
The sort of life that follows the venture of faith. The hindrances to
his joining Moses were plainly put by himself. He said in effect, ‘I
will not come; I will depart to mine own land and to my kindred. Why
should I attach myself to a horde of strangers, and go wandering about
the desert for the rest of my life, looking out for encampments for
them, when I can return to where I have been all my days; and be
surrounded by the familiar atmosphere of friends and relatives?’ But he
bethought himself that there was a nobler life to live than that, and
because he was stirred by the impulse of reliance on Moses and his
promise, and perhaps by some germ of reliance on Moses’ God, he finally
said, ‘The die is cast. I choose my side. I will break with the past. I
turn my back on kindred and home. Here I draw a broad line across the
page, and begin over again in an altogether new kind of life. I
identify myself with these wanderers; sharing their fortunes, hoping to
share their prosperity, and taking their God for my God.’ He had
perhaps not been a nomad before, for there still are permanent
settlements as well as nomad encampments in Arabia, as there were in
those days, and he and his relatives, from the few facts that we know
of them, seem to have had a fixed home, with a very narrow zone of
wandering round it. So Hobab, an old man probably, if he was anything
like the age of his connection by marriage, Moses, who was eighty at
this time, makes up his mind to begin a new career.
Now that is what we have to do. If we have faith in Christ and His
promise, we shall not say, ‘I am going back to my kindred and to my
home.’ We shall be prepared to accept the conditions of a wanderer’s
life. We shall recognise and feel, far more than we ever have done,
that we are indeed ‘pilgrims and sojourners’ here. Dear Christian
friends, we have no business to call ourselves Christ’s men, unless the
very characteristic of our lives is that we are drawn ever forward by
the prospect of future good, and unless that future is a great deal
more solid and more operative upon us, and tells more on our lives,
than this intrusive, solid-seeming present that thrusts itself between
us and our true home. That is a sure saying. The Christian obligation
to live a life of detachment, even while diligent in duty, is not to be
brushed aside as pulpit rhetoric and exaggeration, but it is the
plainest teaching of the New Testament. I wish it was a little more
exemplified in the daily life of the people who call themselves
Christians.
If I am not living for the unseen and the future, what right have I to
say that I am Christ’s at all? If the shadows are more than the
substance to me; if this condensed vapour and fog that we call reality
has not been to our apprehension thinned away into the unsubstantial
mist that it is, what have the principles of Christianity done for us,
and what worth is Christ’s word to us? If I believe Him, the world
is–I do not say, as the sentimental poet put it, ‘but a fleeting show,
for man’s illusion given’;–but as Paul puts it, a glass which may
either reveal or obscure the realities beyond; and according as we look
at, or look through, ‘the things seen and temporal,’ do we see, or
miss, ‘the things unseen and eternal.’ So, then, the life of faith has
for its essential characteristic–because it is a life of reliance on
Christ’s bare word–that future good is consciously its supreme aim.
That will detach us, as it did Hobab, from home and kindred, and make
us feel that we are ‘pilgrims and sojourners.’
III. Lastly, our story suggests to us–
The rewards of faith.
‘Come with us,’ says Moses; ‘we are journeying unto the place of which
the Lord said, I will give it you. Come thou with us, and we will do
thee what goodness the Lord shall do unto us.’ He went, and neither he
nor Moses ever saw the land, or at least never set their feet on it.
Moses saw it from Pisgah, but probably Hobab did not even get so much
as that.
So he had all his tramping through the wilderness, and all his work,
for nothing, had he? Had he not better have gone back to Midian, and
made use of the present reality, than followed a will-of-the-wisp that
led him into a bog, if he got none of the good that he set out
expecting to get? Then, did he make a mistake? Would he have been a
wiser man if he had stuck to his first refusal? Surely not. It seems to
me that the very fact of this great promise being given to this
old–dare I call Hobab a ‘saint’?–to this old saint, and never being
fulfilled at all in this world, compels us to believe that there was
some gleam of hope, and of certainty, of a future life, even in these
earliest days of dim and partial revelation.
To me it is very illuminative, and very beautiful, that the dying Jacob
bursts in his song into a sudden exclamation, ‘I have waited for Thy
salvation, O Lord!’ It is as if he had felt that all his life long he
had been looking for what had never come, and that it could not be that
God was going to let him go down to the grave and never grasp the good
that he had been waiting for all his days. We may apply substantially
the same thoughts to Hobab, and to all his like, and may turn them to
our own use, and argue that the imperfections of the consequences of
our faith here on earth are themselves evidences of a future, where all
that Christ has said shall be more than fulfilled, and no man will be
able to say, ‘Thou didst send me out, deluding me with promises which
have all gone to water and have failed.’
Hobab dying there in the desert had made the right choice, and if we
will trust ourselves to Christ and His faithful word, and, trusting to
Him, will feel that we are detached from the present and that it is but
as the shadow of a cloud, whatever there may be wanting in the results
of our faith here on earth, there will be nothing wanting in its
results at the last. Hobab did not regret his venture, and no man ever
ventures his faith on Christ and is disappointed. ‘He that believeth
shall not be confounded.’

Bible Scriptures

Bible Verses About love – Song-of-Solomon 3:5
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.

Bible Verses About love – Malachi 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Bible Verses About love – Chronicles-2 9:8
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Bible Scriptures – Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.

Bible Favorites

Bible Scriptures About counsel – Ezra 7:15
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem,

Bible Scriptures About generations – Leviticus 7:36
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a statute for ever throughout their generations.

Bible Scriptures About days – Acts 5:36
For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

Bible Scriptures About prophecy – Chronicles-2 15:8
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.

Bible Scriptures About seen – Ecclesiastes 10:5
There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as an error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:

Bible Scriptures About appointed – Nehemiah 12:31
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great [companies of them that gave] thanks, [whereof one] went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

Bible Scriptures About waters – Revelations 11:6
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Bible Scriptures About spread – Leviticus 13:36
Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he [is] unclean.

Bible Scriptures About beloved – John-3 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Bible Scriptures About returned – Luke 2:43
And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not [of it].

Bible Scriptures About serve – Chronicles-1 19:5
Then there went [certain], and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return.

Bible Scriptures About deceit – Psalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Bible Scriptures About trouble – Psalms 83:17
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

Bible Scriptures About looked – Ezekiel 10:11
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

Bible Scriptures About departed – Acts 5:41
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

Bible Scriptures About king – Micha 1:14
Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.

Bible Scriptures About caused – Psalms 78:16
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Bible Scriptures About words – Mark 8:38
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Bible Scriptures About brother – Matthew 4:18
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Bible Scriptures About eye – Matthew 13:15
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Bible Scriptures About money – Kings-2 23:35
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaohnechoh.

Bible Scriptures About water – Acts 8:39
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

Bible Scriptures About wisdom – Daniel 5:14
I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.

Bible Scriptures About peace – Zecharia 6:13
Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Bible Scriptures About strength – Isaiah 30:2
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

Bible Scriptures About fear – Proverbs 1:29
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Bible Scriptures About anger – Isaiah 10:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

Bible Scriptures About heaven – Luke 20:4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

Bible Scriptures About poor – Isaiah 3:15
What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Bible Scriptures About worship – Matthew 15:25
Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

Bible Scriptures About wife – Exodus 6:20
And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years.

Bible Scriptures About clean – Samuel-1 20:26
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely he [is] not clean.

Bible Scriptures About salvation – John 4:22
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

Bible Scriptures About tongue – Job 33:2
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Bible Scriptures About grace – John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Bible Scriptures About baptism – Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Bible Scriptures About trust – Psalms 31:19
[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Bible Scriptures About bless – Deuteronomy 30:1
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

Bible Scriptures About joy – Isaiah 52:9
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Bible Scriptures About faith – Timothy-1 6:21
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.

Bible Scriptures About captivity – Jeremiah 29:31
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

Bible Scriptures About soul – Psalms 146:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Bible Scriptures About incense – Chronicles-2 28:25
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

Bible Scriptures About smite – Mark 14:27
And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

Bible Scriptures About fools – Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth.

World English Bible

Bible Verses About fasting – Esther 4:3
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Bible Verses About health – Jeremiah 8:22
[Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Bible Verses About wisdom – Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Bible Verses About tongue – Psalms 137:6
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Bible Verses About strength – Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

Bible Verses About friend – Luke 23:12
And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

Bible Verses About anger – Mark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

Bible Verses About faith – Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Bible Verses About marriage – John 2:1
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

Bible Verses About dreams – Samuel-1 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Bible Verses About overtake – Thessalonians-1 5:4
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Bible Verses About backward – Genesis 49:17
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Bible Verses About stream – Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

Bible Verses About hidden – Obadiah 1:6
How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up!

Bible Verses About sycamore – Kings-1 10:27
And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance.

Bible Verses About correction – Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Bible Verses About ascend – Revelations 11:12
And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Bible Verses About capernaum – Matthew 4:13
And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

Bible Verses About captivity – Ezekiel 40:1
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

Bible Verses About admonish – Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

King James Bible

Bible Verses About air – Judges 21:23
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

Bible Verses About seraiah – Chronicles-1 4:13
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

Bible Verses About hunger – Revelations 6:8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Bible Verses About tarshish – Chronicles-1 1:7
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Bible Verses About partakers – Peter-1 4:13
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Bible Verses About speedily – Isaiah 58:8
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Bible Verses About chains – Psalms 68:6
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].

Bible Verses About apparel – Zecharia 14:14
And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

Bible Verses About divisions – Chronicles-1 26:19
These [are] the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.

Bible Verses About far – Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

Bible Verses About speak – Daniel 9:20
And whiles I [was] speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Bible Verses About messenger – Kings-2 6:32
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

Bible Verses About wander – Amos 4:8
So two [or] three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Bible Verses About hananiah – Chronicles-1 8:24
And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,

Bible Verses About answer – Job 14:15
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

Bible Verses About grave – Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Bible Verses About sand – Chronicles-1 23:4
Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:

Bible Verses About cain – Genesis 4:24
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Bible Verses About hell – Peter-2 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Bible Verses About reward – Psalms 15:5
[He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.

Bible Verses About ishmael – Chronicles-2 19:11
And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.

Bible Verses About adversaries – Philippians 1:28
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

Bible Verses About whirlwind – Isaiah 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Bible Verses About almighty – Job 24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Bible Verses About observe – Kings-2 21:8
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.