‘And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night. 2. And all the
children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them, Would
God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
we had died in this wilderness! 3. And wherefore hath
the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword,
that our wives and our children should be a prey? were
it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4. And they
said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us
return into Egypt 5. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the
children of Israel. 6. And Joshua the son of Nun, and
Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that
searched the land, rent their clothes. 7. And they spake
unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,
The land, which we passed through to search it, is an
exceeding good land. 8. If the Lord delight in us, then
He will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land
which floweth with milk and honey. 9. Only rebel not ye
against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land;
for they are bread for us: their defence is departed
from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
10. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.
And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of
the congregation before all the children of Israel.’
–NUM. xiv. 1-10.
Terror is more contagious than courage, for a mob is always more prone
to base than to noble instincts. The gloomy report of the spies jumped
with the humour of the people, and was at once accepted. Its effect was
to throw the whole assembly into a paroxysm of panic, which was
expressed in the passionate Eastern manner by wild, ungoverned
shrieking and tears. What a picture of a frenzied crowd the first verse
of this chapter gives! That is not the stuff of which heroes can be
made. Weeping endured for a night, but to such weeping there came no
morning of joy. When day dawned, the tempest of emotion settled down
into sullen determination to give up the prize which hung within reach
of a bold hand, ripe and ready to drop. It was one of the moments which
come once at least in the lives of nations as of individuals, when a
supreme resolve is called for, and when to fall beneath the stern
requirement, and refuse a great attempt because of danger, is to
pronounce sentence of unworthiness and exclusion on themselves. Not
courage only, but belief in God, was tested in this crucial moment,
which made a turning-point in the nation’s history. Our text brings
before us with dramatic vividness and sharpness of contrast, three
parties in this decisive hour–the faithless cowards, the faithful
four, and the All-seeing presence.
I. Note the faithless cowards. The gravity of the revolt here is partly
in its universality, which is emphasised in the narrative at every
turn: ‘_all_ the congregation’ (v. 1), ‘_all_ the children of Israel,’
the _whole_ congregation’ (v. 2), ‘_all_ the assembly of the
congregation’ (which implies a solemn formal convocation), ‘_all_ the
company’ (v, 7), ‘_all_ the congregation,’ ‘_all_ the children of
Israel’ (v. 10). It was no sectional discontent, but full-blown and
universal rebellion. The narrative draws a distinction between the
language addressed to Moses, and the whisperings to one another.
Publicly, the unanimous voice suggested the return to Egypt as an
alternative for discussion, and put it before Moses; to one another
they muttered the proposal, which no man had yet courage to speak out,
of choosing a new leader, and going back, whatever became of Moses.
That could only mean murder as well as mutiny. The whispers would soon
be loud enough.
In the murmurs to Moses, observe the distinct and conscious apostacy
from Jehovah. They recognise that God ‘has brought’ them there, and
they slander Him by the assertion that His malignant, deliberate
purpose was to kill them all, and make slaves of their wives and
children. That was how they read the past, and thought of Him! He had
enticed them into His trap, as a hunter might some foolish animal, by
dainties strewed along the path, and now they were in the toils, and
their only chance of life was to break through. Often, already, had
they raised that mad cry–‘back to Egypt!’ but there had never been
such a ring of resolve in it, nor had it come from so many throats, nor
had any serious purpose to depose Moses been entertained. If we add the
fact that they were now on the very frontier of Canaan, and that the
decision now taken was necessarily final, we get the full significance
of the incident from the mere secular historian’s point of view. But
its bearing on the people’s relation to Jehovah gives a darker
colouring to it. It is not merely faint-hearted shrinking from a great
opportunity, but it is wilful and deliberate rejection of His rule,
based upon utter distrust of His word. So Scripture treats this event
as the typical example of unbelief (Psa. xcv.; Heb. iii. and iv.). So
regarded, it presents, as in a mirror, some of the salient
characteristics of that master sin. Bad as it is, it is not out of the
range of possibility that it should be repeated, and we need the
warning to ‘take heed lest any of us should fall after the same example
of unbelief.’
We may learn from it the essentials of faith and its opposite. The
trust which these cowards failed to exercise was reliance on Jehovah, a
personal relation to a Person. In externals and contents, their trust
was very unlike the New Testament faith, but in object and essence it
was identical. They had to trust in Jehovah; we, in ‘God manifest in
the flesh.’ Their creed was much less clear and blessed than ours, but
their faith, if they had had it, would have been the same. Faith is not
the belief of a creed, whether man-made or God-revealed, but the
cleaving to the Person whom the creed makes known. He may be made known
more or less perfectly; but the act of the soul, by which we grasp Him,
does not vary with the completeness of the revelation. That act was one
for ‘the world’s grey fathers’ and for us. In like manner, unbelief is
the same black and fatal sin, whatever be the degree of light against
which it turns. To depart from the living God is its essence, and that
is always rebellion and death.
Note the short memory and churlish unthankfulness of unbelief. It has
been often objected to the story of the Exodus, that such extremity of
folly as is ascribed to the Israelites is inconceivable in such
circumstances. How could men, with all these miracles in mind, and
manna falling daily, and the pillar blazing every night, and the roll
of Sinai’s thunders scarcely out of their ears, behave thus? But any
one who has honestly studied his own heart, and known its capacity for
neglecting the plainest indications of God’s presence, and forgetting
the gifts of His love, will believe the story, and see brethren in
these Israelites. Miracles were less wonderful to them, because they
knew less about nature and its laws. Any miracles constantly renewed
become commonplace. Habit takes the wonder out of everything. The heart
that does not ‘like to retain God in its knowledge’ will find easy ways
of forgetting Him, and revolting from Him, though the path be strewed
with blessings, and tokens of His presence flame on every side. True,
it is strange that all the wonders and mercies of the past two years
had made no deeper impression on these people’s hearts; but if they had
not done so, it is not unnatural that they had made so slight an
impression on their wills. Their ingratitude and forgetfulness are
inexplicable, as all sin is, for its very essence is that it has no
sufficient reason. But neither is inconceivable, and both are repeated
by us every day.
Note the credulity of unbelief. The word of Jehovah had told them that
the land ‘flowed with milk and honey,’ and that they were sure to
conquer it. They would not believe Him unless they had verification of
His promises. And when they got their own fears reflected in the
multiplying mirror of the spies’ report, they took men’s words for
gospel, and gave to them a credence without examination or
qualification, which they had never given to God. I think that I have
heard of people who inveigh against Christians for their slavish
acceptance of the absolute authority of Jesus Christ, and who pin their
faith to some man’s teaching with a credulity quite as great as and
much less warrantable than ours.
Note the bad bargain which unbelief is ready to make. They contemplated
a risky alternative to the brave dash against Canaan. There would be
quite as much peril in going back as forward. The march from Egypt had
not been so easy; but what would it be when there were no Moses, no
Jethro, no manna, no pillar? And what sort of reception would wait them
in Egypt, and what fate befall them there? In front, there were perils;
but God would be with them. They would have to fight their way, but
with the joyous feeling that victory was sure, and that every blow
struck, and every step marched, brought them nearer triumphant peace.
If they turned, every step would carry them farther from their hopes,
and nearer the dreary putting on of the old yoke, which ‘neither they
nor their fathers were able to bear.’ They would buy slavery at as dear
a price as they would have to pay for freedom and wealth. Yet they
elected the baser course, and thought themselves prudent and careful of
themselves in doing so. Is the breed of such miscalculators extinct?
Far greater hardships and pains are met on the road of departure from
God, than any which befall His servants. To follow Him involves a
conflict, but to shirk the battle does not bring immunity from strife.
The alternatives are not warfare or peace, God’s service or liberty.
The most prudent self-love would coincide with the most
self-sacrificing heroic consecration, and no man can worse consult his
own well-being than in seeking escape from the dangers and toil of
enlisting in God’s army, by running back through the desert to put his
neck in chains in Egypt. As Moses said: ‘Because then servedst not the
Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart for the
abundance of all things, therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in want of all things.’
II. The faithful four. Moses and Aaron, Caleb and Joshua, are the only
Abdiels in that crowd of unbelieving dastards. Their own peril does not
move them; their only thought is to dissuade from the fatal refusal to
advance. The leader had no armed force with which to put down revolt,
and stood wholly undefended and powerless. It was a cruel position for
him to see the work of his life crumbling to pieces, and every hope for
his people dashed by their craven fears. Is there anywhere a nobler
piece of self-abnegation than his prostrating himself before them in
the eagerness of his pleading with them for their own good? If anything
could have kindled a spark of generous enthusiasm, that passionate
gesture of entreaty would have done it. It is like: ‘We beseech you, in
His stead, be ye reconciled to God.’ Men need to be importuned not to
destroy themselves, and he will have most success in such God-like work
who, as Moses, is so sure of the fatal issues, and so oblivious of all
but saving men from self-inflicted ruin, that he sues as for a boon
with tears in his voice, and dignity thrown to the winds.
Caleb and Joshua had a different task,–to make one more attempt to
hearten the people by repeating their testimony and their confidence.
Tearing their dresses, in sign of mourning, they bravely ring out once
more the cheery note of assured faith. They first emphatically
reiterate that the land is fertile,–or, as the words literally run,
‘good exceedingly, exceedingly.’ It is right to stimulate for God’s
warfare by setting forth the blessedness of the inheritance. ‘The
recompense of the reward’ is not the motive for doing His will, but it
is legitimately used as encouragement, in spite of the overstrained
objection that virtue for the sake of heaven is spurious virtue. If
‘for the sake of heaven,’ it is spurious; but it is not spurious
because it is heartened by the hope of heaven. In Caleb’s former report
there was no reason given for his confidence that ‘we are well able to
overcome.’ Thus far all the discussion had been about comparative
strength, as any heathen soldier would have reckoned it. But the two
heroes speak out the great Name at last, which ought to scatter all
fears like morning mist. The rebels had said that Jehovah had ‘brought
us into this land to fall by the sword.’ The two give them back their
words with a new turn: ‘He will bring us into this land, and give it
us.’ That is the only antidote to fear. Calculations of comparative
force are worse than useless, and their results depend on the temper of
the calculator; but, if once God is brought into the account, the sum
is ended. When His sword is flung into the scale, whatever is in the
other goes up. So Caleb and Joshua brush aside the terrors of the Anaks
and all the other bugbears. ‘They are bread for us,’ we can swallow
them at a mouthful; and this was no swaggering boast, but calm,
reasonable confidence, because it rested on this, ‘the Lord is with
us.’ True, there was an ‘if,’ but not an ‘if’ of doubt, but a condition
which they could comply with, and so make it a certainty, ‘only rebel
not against the Lord, and fear not the people of the land.’ Loyalty to
Him would give courage, and courage with His presence would be sure of
victory. Obedience turns God’s ‘ifs’ into ‘verilys.’ There, then, we
have an outline picture of the work of faith pleading with the
rebellious, heartening them and itself by thoughts of the fair
inheritance, grasping the assurance of God’s omnipotent help, and in
the strength thereof wisely despising the strongest foes, and settling
itself immovable in the posture of obedience.
III. The sudden appearance of the all-seeing Lord. The bold
remonstrance worked the people into a fury, and fidelity was about to
reap the reward which the crowd ever gives to those who try to save it
from its own base passions. Nothing is more hateful to resolute sinners
than good counsel which is undeniably true. But just as the stones were
beginning to fly, the ‘glory of the Lord,’ that wondrous light which
dwelt above the ark in the inmost shrine, came forth before all the
awestruck crowd. The stones would be dropped fast enough, and a hush of
dread would follow the howling rage of the angry crowd. Our text does
not go on to the awful judgment which was proclaimed; but we may
venture beyond its bounds to point out that the sentence of exclusion
from the land was but the necessary consequence of the temper and
character which the refusal to advance had betrayed. Such people were
not fit for the fight. A new generation, braced by the keen air and
scant fare of the desert, with firmer muscles and hearts than these
enervated slaves had, was needed for the conquest. The sentence was
mercy as well as judgment; it was better that they should live in the
wilderness, and die there by natural process, after having had more
education in God’s loving care, than that they should be driven
unwillingly to a conflict which, in their state of mind, would have
been but their butchery. None the less, it is an awful condemnation for
a man to be brought by God’s providence face to face with a great
possibility of service and of blessing, and then to show himself such
that God has to put him aside, and look for other instruments. The
Israelites were excluded from Canaan by no arbitrary decree, but by
their own faithless fears, which made their victory impossible. ‘They
could not enter in because of unbelief.’ In like manner our unbelief
shuts us out from salvation, because we can only enter in by faith; and
the ‘rest that remains’ is of such a nature that it is impossible for
even His love to give it to the unbelieving. ‘Let us labour, therefore,
to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief.’
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Bible Verses About love – Psalms 33:5
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Bible Verses About love – Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Bible Scriptures – Corinthians 2 5:17
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Bible Verses About love – Song-of-Solomon 1:7
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
Bible Verses About love – Matthew 5:43
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Bible Verses About rend – Psalms 116:12
What shall I render unto the LORD [for] all his benefits toward me?
Bible Verses About fulfilled – Luke 22:16
For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Bible Verses About weary – Samuel-2 17:2
And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
Bible Verses About sing – Samuel-1 17:53
And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
Bible Verses About sheep – Micha 2:12
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.
Bible Verses About armies – Samuel-1 29:1
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.
Bible Verses About blessed – Isaiah 56:2
Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Bible Verses About person – Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
Bible Verses About willingly – Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,
Bible Verses About scriptures – John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Bible Verses About darkened – Joel 3:15
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Bible Verses About gospel – Romans 11:28
As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes.
Bible Verses About pleasant – Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not right.
Bible Verses About ahikam – Jeremiah 39:14
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
Bible Verses About uncircumcised – Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Bible Verses About empty – Kings-2 4:3
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
Bible Verses About hin – Numbers 4:20
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
Bible Verses About bowed – Chronicles-2 29:29
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
Bible Verses About jehoram – Kings-2 8:25
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
Bible Verses About cry – Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Bible Verses About sadness – Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Bible Verses About fear – Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Bible Verses About clean – Numbers 9:10
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Bible Verses About fasting – Matthew 15:32
Then Jesus called his disciples [unto him], and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Bible Verses About joy – Matthew 28:8
And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
Bible Verses About birth – Luke 1:14
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Bible Verses About water – Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.
Bible Verses About tithes – Nehemiah 12:44
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
Bible Verses About patience – Peter-2 1:6
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Bible Verses About life – John 10:28
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
Bible Verses About marriage – Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Bible Verses About goodness – Romans 11:22
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Bible Verses About youth – Psalms 127:4
As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth.
Bible Verses About worship – Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Bible Verses About anger – Exodus 30:33
Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
Bible Verses About healing – Corinthians-1 12:28
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Bible Verses About baptism – Colossians 2:12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Bible Verses About friend – John 3:29
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Bible Verses About jealousy – Kings-1 14:22
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
Bible Verses About wisdom – Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
Bible Scriptures About possess – Numbers 33:53
And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Bible Scriptures About possession – Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Bible Scriptures About covenant – Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Bible Scriptures About begat – Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Bible Scriptures About corn – Hosea 2:9
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
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 wind – Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?
Bible Scriptures About heart – Job 10:13
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.
Bible Scriptures About whoredom – Hosea 6:10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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.
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Bible Verses About grace – Isaiah 60:10
And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
Bible Verses About visions – 1-Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.
Bible Verses About women – Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
Bible Verses About prayer – Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Bible Verses About giving – Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
Bible Verses About faith – 1-Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
Bible Verses About poor – Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Bible Verses About dreams – Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
Bible Verses About money – Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
Bible Verses About wife – Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
Bible Verses About salvation – Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.
Bible Verses About clean – Numbers 19:14
This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.
Bible Verses About mothers – Mark 13:12
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.
Bible Verses About purpose – Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
Bible Verses About wisdom – Revelation 7:12
So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.
Bible Verses About love – Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
Bible Verses About peace – Isaiah 48:18
If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Bible Verses About husbands – Jeremiah 44:19
And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?
Bible Verses About strength – 1-Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
Bible Verses About water – Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
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Bible Verses About half – Chronicles-1 6:61
And unto the sons of Kohath, [which were] left of the family of that tribe, [were cities given] out of the half tribe, [namely, out of] the half [tribe] of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
Bible Verses About enough – Proverbs 30:15
The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:
Bible Verses About macedonia – Acts 20:3
And [there] abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
Bible Verses About beard – Ezra 9:3
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Bible Verses About alive – Ezekiel 13:18
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] unto you?
Bible Verses About hasty – Habakkuk 1:6
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.
Bible Verses About ships – Kings-1 9:26
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which [is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Bible Verses About forest – Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
Bible Verses About basket – Numbers 6:15
And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
Bible Verses About prostitute – Leviticus 19:29
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Bible Verses About despise – Genesis 25:34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birthright.
Bible Verses About arrows – Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Bible Verses About alien – Ezekiel 23:28
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand [of them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of them] from whom thy mind is alienated:
Bible Verses About lioness – Nahum 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Bible Verses About whisper – Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Bible Verses About chasten – Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Bible Verses About shave – Corinthians-1 11:5
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
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 deep – Amos 7:4
Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Bible Verses About alienated – Ezekiel 23:18
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
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