Curse
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
9 sections
Barak Commands Balaam to Curse Israel
- Numbers 22:6 So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
- Numbers 23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”
Curses of the Mosaic Law
- Deuteronomy 27:1–26 Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today. …
- Joshua 8:30–34 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel, …
Denounced: Against Adam and Eve
- Genesis 3:15–19 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” …
Denounced: Against Cain
- Genesis 4:11–16 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. …
Denounced: Against Canaan, Noah's Son
- Genesis 9:24–27 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, …
Denounced: Against Gehazi
- 2 Kings 5:27 Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous— as white as snow.
Denounced: Against Meroz
- Judges 5:23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
Denounced: Against the Ground
- Genesis 3:17–18 And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. …
Denounced: Against the Serpent
- Genesis 3:14–15 So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life. …
Related topics
Responsive Religious ServiceAmenInstruction in ReligionBenedictions by Half the Tribes, Who Stood on Mount GerizimPillar by Joshua, the Crossing of the Jordan River
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.