Judgments

184 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

98 sections

Adam
Ahab and Jezebel
Ahaziah
Cain
Delayed
Delivered: Into the Hands of the Assyrians
Delivered: Into the Hands of the Chaldeans
Denounced Against Disobedience
Denounced Against Solomon
Design of
Different Kinds of Abandonment by God
Different Kinds of Blotting out the Name
Different Kinds of Captivity
Different Kinds of Continued Sorrows
Different Kinds of Cursing Men's Blessings
Different Kinds of Desolation
Different Kinds of Destruction
Different Kinds of Enemies
Different Kinds of Famine
Different Kinds of Famine of Hearing the Word
Different Kinds of Pestilence
Different Kinds of The Sword
Egyptians, the Plagues and Overthrow
Eli's House
Eve
Executed by Human Instrumentality
Gehazi
Hananiah, the False Prophet
Inflicted Upon: All Enemies of Saints
Inflicted Upon: False Gods
Inflicted Upon: Individuals
Inflicted Upon: Nations
Inflicted Upon: Posterity of Sinners
Jeroboam
Manasseh
Manifest the Righteous Character of God
May be Averted by Forsaking Iniquity
May be Averted by Humiliation
May be Averted by Prayer
May be Averted by Turning to God
Miriam
Misunderstood
Nadab and Abihu
No Escape From
On the Serpent
Preservation During - Exemplified: Elijah
Preservation During - Exemplified: Elisha
Preservation During - Exemplified: Joseph
Preservation During - Exemplified: Lot
Preservation During - Exemplified: Noah
Preservation During - Exemplified: Shunammite
Saints: Acknowledge the Justice of
Saints: Pray for Those Under
Saints: Preserved During
Saints: Provided For, During
Saints: Sympathise with Those Under
Sennacherib
Sent for Correction
Sent for the Deliverance of Saints
should be a Warning to Others
should Lead to Contrition
should Lead to Humiliation
should Lead to Learning Righteousness
should Lead to Prayer
Sodomites
The Antediluvians
The Forty Years of Wandering, a Judgment
The Prophet of Judah, for Disobedience
Upon Abimelech
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Achan
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Ahab
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Ananias
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Belshazzar
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Cain
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Canaan
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Elymas
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Gehazi
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Herod
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Hophni
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Jeroboam
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Jezebel
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Korah
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Nebuchadnezzar
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Saul
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Uzzah
Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Zacharias
Upon Nations - Exemplified: Amalekites
Upon Nations - Exemplified: Egypt
Upon Nations - Exemplified: Israel
Upon Nations - Exemplified: People of Ashdod
Upon Nations - Exemplified: People of Bethshemesh
Upon Nations - Exemplified: Sodom
Upon Nations - Exemplified: The Old World
Upon the Canaanites
Upon the Israelites for Complaining
Upon the Israelites for Worshiping Aaron's Calf
Uzzah
Zimri

Adam

Genesis 3:17–19 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. …

Ahab and Jezebel

1 Kings 21:19–24 Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will …

Ahaziah

2 Chronicles 22:7–9 Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. …

Cain

Genesis 4:11–15 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. …

Delayed

Psalm 10:6 He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
Psalm 50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Psalm 55:19 God will hear and humiliate them — the One enthroned for the ages — Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

Delivered: Into the Hands of the Assyrians

2 Kings 17:6–41 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. …

Delivered: Into the Hands of the Chaldeans

2 Chronicles 36:14–21 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. …

Denounced Against Disobedience

Leviticus 26:14–39 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, …
Deuteronomy 28:15–68 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: …
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 32:19–43 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. …

Denounced Against Solomon

1 Kings 11:9–14 Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. …
1 Kings 11:23 And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,

Design of

Exodus 14:17–18 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen. …
Exodus 14:31 When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.
Deuteronomy 29:22–28 Then the generation to come — your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land — will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it. …
Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
Psalm 9:20 Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
Psalm 59:13 Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
Psalm 83:16–18 Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD. …
Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 64:1–2 If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, …
Ezekiel 11:10–12 You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you even to the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD. …
Ezekiel 12:16 But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 14:7–8 For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will …
Ezekiel 21:3–5 and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. …
Ezekiel 25:5 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
Ezekiel 25:7 therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
Ezekiel 25:11 So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’
Ezekiel 26:6 and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’
Ezekiel 29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
Ezekiel 29:16 Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 30:8 Then they will know that I am the LORD when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are shattered.
Ezekiel 30:25–26 I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt. …
Ezekiel 33:29 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’
Ezekiel 38:22–23 I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. …
Daniel 4:17 This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’
Daniel 4:24–26 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king: …
Daniel 4:34 But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, …
Romans 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Romans 9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
1 Corinthians 10:6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
Revelation 2:23 Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

Different Kinds of Abandonment by God

Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

Different Kinds of Blotting out the Name

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Different Kinds of Captivity

Deuteronomy 28:41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
Ezekiel 39:23 And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

Different Kinds of Continued Sorrows

Psalm 32:10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
Psalm 78:32–33 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe. …
Ezekiel 24:23 Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

Different Kinds of Cursing Men's Blessings

Malachi 2:2 If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not …

Different Kinds of Desolation

Ezekiel 33:29 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’
Joel 3:19 Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Different Kinds of Destruction

Job 31:3 Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Psalm 34:16 But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
Proverbs 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Isaiah 11:4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Different Kinds of Enemies

2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I …

Different Kinds of Famine

Deuteronomy 28:38–40 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it. …
Amos 4:7–9 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. …

Different Kinds of Famine of Hearing the Word

Amos 8:11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land — not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Different Kinds of Pestilence

Deuteronomy 28:21–22 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. …
Amos 4:10 “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Different Kinds of The Sword

Exodus 22:24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Jeremiah 19:7 And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air …

Egyptians, the Plagues and Overthrow

Exodus 7:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.

Eli's House

1 Samuel 2:27–36 Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house? …
1 Samuel 4:10–22 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great — thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell. …

Eve

Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Executed by Human Instrumentality

Jeremiah 51:2 I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.

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.

Hananiah, the False Prophet

Jeremiah 28:15–17 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie. …

Inflicted Upon: All Enemies of Saints

Jeremiah 30:16 Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries— every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

Inflicted Upon: False Gods

Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
Numbers 33:4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.

Inflicted Upon: Individuals

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Jeremiah 23:34 As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.

Inflicted Upon: Nations

Genesis 15:14 But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
Jeremiah 51:20–21 “You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. …

Inflicted Upon: Posterity of Sinners

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Jeroboam

1 Kings 14:7–15 Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel. …

Manasseh

2 Chronicles 33:11 So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Manifest the Righteous Character of God

Exodus 9:14–16 Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. …
Ezekiel 39:21 I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
Daniel 9:14 Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.

May be Averted by Forsaking Iniquity

Jeremiah 18:7–8 At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. …

May be Averted by Humiliation

Exodus 33:3–4 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.” …
Exodus 33:14 And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

May be Averted by Prayer

Judges 3:9–11 But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them. …
2 Chronicles 7:13–14 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, …

May be Averted by Turning to God

Deuteronomy 30:1–3 “When all these things come upon you— the blessings and curses I have set before you— and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, …

Miriam

Numbers 12:1–15 Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife. …

Misunderstood

Jeremiah 16:10 When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
Joel 2:17 Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among …

Nadab and Abihu

Leviticus 10:1–3 Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command. …

No Escape From

Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Exodus 34:7 maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren …
Isaiah 2:10 Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.
Isaiah 2:12–19 For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled— …
Isaiah 2:21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
Ezekiel 14:13–14 “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast, …
Amos 5:16–20 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. …
Amos 9:1–4 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will …
Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
Hebrews 2:1–3 We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. …
Hebrews 10:28–29 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. …
Hebrews 12:25 See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
Revelation 6:16–17 And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. …

On 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. …

Preservation During - Exemplified: Elijah

1 Kings 17:9 “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

Preservation During - Exemplified: Elisha

2 Kings 4:38–41 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.” …

Preservation During - Exemplified: Joseph

Genesis 45:7 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Preservation During - Exemplified: Lot

Genesis 19:15–17 At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.” …

Preservation During - Exemplified: Noah

Genesis 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Genesis 7:16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Preservation During - Exemplified: Shunammite

2 Kings 8:1–2 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.” …

Saints: Acknowledge the Justice of

2 Samuel 24:17 When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
Ezra 9:13 After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
Nehemiah 9:33 You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
Jeremiah 14:17 You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Saints: Pray for Those Under

Exodus 32:11–13 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? …
Numbers 11:2 And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
Daniel 9:3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Saints: Preserved During

Job 5:19–20 He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven. …
Psalm 91:7 Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you.
Isaiah 26:20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
Ezekiel 9:6 Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
Revelation 7:3 “Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Saints: Provided For, During

Genesis 47:12 Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
Psalm 33:19 to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Psalm 37:19 In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

Saints: Sympathise with Those Under

Jeremiah 9:1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Lamentations 3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Sennacherib

2 Kings 19:35–37 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! …

Sent for Correction

Job 37:13 Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you …

Sent for the Deliverance of Saints

Exodus 6:6 Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

should be a Warning to Others

Luke 13:3 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Luke 13:5 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

should Lead to Contrition

Nehemiah 1:4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Esther 4:3 In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Isaiah 22:12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

should Lead to Humiliation

Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.
2 Chronicles 12:6 So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
Lamentations 3:1–20 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. …
Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
Jonah 3:5–6 And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. …

should Lead to Learning Righteousness

Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

should Lead to Prayer

2 Chronicles 20:9 ‘If disaster comes upon us— whether sword or judgment, plague or famine— we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’

Sodomites

Genesis 19:23–25 And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar. …

The Antediluvians

Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.”

The Forty Years of Wandering, a Judgment

Numbers 14:26–39 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, …
Numbers 26:63–65 These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho. …
Deuteronomy 2:14–17 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. …

The Prophet of Judah, for Disobedience

1 Kings 13:1–24 Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD. …

Upon Abimelech

Judges 9:52–57 When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire. …

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Achan

Joshua 7:25 “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Ahab

1 Kings 22:38 And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Ananias

Acts 5:1–10 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. …

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Belshazzar

Daniel 5:30 That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Cain

Genesis 4:11–12 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. …

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Canaan

Genesis 9:25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Elymas

Acts 13:11 Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: 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.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Herod

Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Hophni

1 Samuel 2:34 And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Jeroboam

1 Kings 13:4 Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he …

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Jezebel

2 Kings 9:35 But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Korah

Numbers 16:33–35 They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly. …

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 4:31 While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Saul

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Uzzah

2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

Upon Individuals - Exemplified: Zacharias

Luke 1:20 And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

Upon Nations - Exemplified: Amalekites

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

Upon Nations - Exemplified: Egypt

Exodus 9:14 Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

Upon Nations - Exemplified: Israel

Numbers 14:29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness— all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older— because you have grumbled against Me.
Numbers 14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

Upon Nations - Exemplified: People of Ashdod

1 Samuel 5:6 Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.

Upon Nations - Exemplified: People of Bethshemesh

1 Samuel 6:19 But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

Upon Nations - Exemplified: Sodom

Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens.

Upon Nations - Exemplified: The Old World

Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:17 And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

Upon the Canaanites

Leviticus 18:25 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations— the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations …
Deuteronomy 12:29–32 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land, …

Upon the Israelites for Complaining

Numbers 11:1 Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
Numbers 11:33–34 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague. …
Numbers 14:22–23 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness — yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times — …
Numbers 14:32 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:35–37 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.” …
Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
Numbers 25:4–5 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.” …
Numbers 25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

Upon the Israelites for Worshiping Aaron's Calf

Exodus 32:35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

Uzzah

2 Samuel 6:7 And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

Zimri

1 Kings 16:18–19 When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died …