Superstition
16 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
13 sections
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Herod Antipas, Imagining That Jesus Was Actually John the Baptist Risen from the Dead
- Israelites
- Jews, Attributing Their Calamities to Having Ceased offering Sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven
- Nebuchadnezzar, Supposing That the Spirit of the Gods Was Upon Daniel
- Philistines
- The Belief of the Syrians Concerning the Help of the Gods
- The Disciples Who Were Frightened at the Appearance of Peter
- The Disciples, Supposing They Saw a Ghost when Jesus Came Walking Upon the Lake
- The Ephesians, in Their Sorceries
- The Gadarenes , Because Jesus Expelled Demons out of the Man Who Lived Among the Tombs
- The People of the Island of Melita , in Assuming That Paul Was some Sort of God
- The Sailors Who Threw Jonah Into the Sea
General Scriptures Concerning
- Acts 25:19 They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Herod Antipas, Imagining That Jesus Was Actually John the Baptist Risen from the Dead
Israelites
- 1 Samuel 4:3 When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to …
- 1 Samuel 4:10–11 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. …
Jews, Attributing Their Calamities to Having Ceased offering Sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven
- Jeremiah 44:17–19 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of …
Nebuchadnezzar, Supposing That the Spirit of the Gods Was Upon Daniel
- Daniel 4:8–9 But at last, into my presence came Daniel (whose name is Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods). And I told him the dream: …
Philistines
- 1 Samuel 5:5 That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
The Belief of the Syrians Concerning the Help of the Gods
- 1 Kings 20:23 Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they prevailed over us. Instead, we should fight them on the plains; surely then we will prevail.
The Disciples Who Were Frightened at the Appearance of Peter
- Acts 12:14–15 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!” …
The Disciples, Supposing They Saw a Ghost when Jesus Came Walking Upon the Lake
- Matthew 14:26 When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.
- Mark 6:49–50 but when they saw Him walking on the sea, they cried out, thinking He was a ghost — …
The Ephesians, in Their Sorceries
- Acts 19:13–19 Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I command you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.” …
The Gadarenes , Because Jesus Expelled Demons out of the Man Who Lived Among the Tombs
- Matthew 8:34 Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.
The People of the Island of Melita , in Assuming That Paul Was some Sort of God
- Acts 28:6 The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
The Sailors Who Threw Jonah Into the Sea
- Jonah 1:4–16 Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart. …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.