The Afflictions of the Wicked
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
Ahaz
- 2 Chronicles 28:5–8 So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. …
- 2 Chronicles 28:22 In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Ahaziah
- 2 Kings 1:1–4 After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. …
Frequently Harden
- Nehemiah 9:28–29 But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them …
- Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
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.
God Holds in Derision
- Psalm 37:13 but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
- Proverbs 1:26–27 in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, …
God is Glorified In
- Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.
- 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. …
Impenitence is a Cause of
- Proverbs 1:30–31 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. …
- Ezekiel 24:13 Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
- Amos 4:6–12 “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. …
- Zechariah 7:11–12 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. …
- Revelation 2:21–22 Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. …
Jehoram
- 2 Chronicles 21:12–19 Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah, …
Pharaoh and the Egyptians
- Exodus 9:14–15 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. …
- Exodus 14:24–25 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion. …
Produce Slavish Fear
- Job 15:24 Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
- Psalm 73:19 How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- Jeremiah 49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
- Jeremiah 49:5 Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.
Saints should not be Alarmed At
- Proverbs 3:25–26 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked, …
Sometimes Humble Them
- 1 Kings 21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
Their Persecution of Saints, a Cause of
- Deuteronomy 30:7 Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.
- 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.
- Zechariah 2:9 I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6 After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
Uzziah
- 2 Chronicles 26:19–21 Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead. …
Related topics
AfflictionsThe Afflictions of the Wicked are for Examples to OthersThe Afflictions of the Wicked are Ineffectual of Themselves, for Their ConversionThe Afflictions of the Wicked are often SuddenThe Afflictions of the Wicked are ContinualThe Afflictions of the Wicked are Multiplied
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.