122 passages · God
God sees that human hearts are wholly evil and regrets making man, grieved. He resolves to blot out life from the earth, but Noah finds favor in his eyes.
The Lord rains sulfur and fire on Sodom, Gomorrah, and the plain. Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt, and Abraham sees smoke rising the next morning.
God tells Moses the people have corrupted themselves and threatens to destroy them and start over with Moses. Moses appeals to God's reputation and his promises to Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and God relents.
Moses comes down carrying the tablets, hears the noise, sees the calf and dancing, and smashes the tablets in anger. He destroys the calf and makes the people drink the powder, then questions Aaron, who blames the people.
The LORD tells Moses to leave for the promised land with an angel, but says he will not go among such a stiff-necked people lest he destroy them. The people mourn and remove their jewelry.
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu offer fire the LORD had not commanded, and fire from the LORD kills them. Moses has their cousins carry the bodies out of the camp and tells Aaron and his other sons not to mourn openly.
If Israel disobeys, God warns of terror, disease, defeat, drought, wild animals, war, and famine. At each stage of refusal the punishment is multiplied sevenfold.
If Israel still refuses, God warns of fury, ruined cities and sanctuaries, and scattering among the nations. The land will then enjoy the Sabbaths it missed, and the survivors will live in fear.
The people complain, the LORD's anger burns and fire consumes the edge of the camp. Moses prays and it dies down, and the place is named Taberah.
God tells Moses to gather seventy elders to share his burden, and promises meat for a whole month to a people who rejected Him. Moses doubts, and God asks if His arm is too short.
A wind brings quail, and the people gather them. While they are eating, God strikes them with a plague, and the place is named Kibroth-hattaavah before Israel moves to Hazeroth.
Miriam becomes leprous, and Aaron begs Moses for mercy. Moses prays for her healing, and God orders seven days outside the camp, after which Israel moves on.
Moses warns the people to move away, and the ground opens and swallows Korah, Dathan, Abiram and their households. Fire consumes the 250 men.
The people blame Moses and Aaron, and a plague begins. Aaron runs with incense between the living and the dead and makes atonement, and the plague stops after 14,700 die.
Impatient on the detour around Edom, the people complain against God and Moses. God sends venomous snakes, and after they confess, He has Moses make a bronze snake on a pole so that anyone who looks at it lives.
At Shittim, Israelite men engage in sexual immorality with Moabite women and join in sacrifices to their gods. God's anger burns, and He orders that the leaders be executed and the guilty put to death.
As the people weep at the Tent, an Israelite man brazenly brings a Midianite woman into the camp. Phinehas spears them both, the plague ends, but 24,000 have died.
Moses recalls that God grew angry and swore that none of that generation would see the land except Caleb, and that Moses himself would not enter. Joshua and the children would enter.
Moses recalls coming down and finding the molten calf, and breaking the tablets before their eyes. He fell before God for forty days and prayed, then burned and ground up the calf.
If Israel ignores the law, the LORD will bring lasting plagues, including the diseases of Egypt. The people, once as many as the stars, will be left few and uprooted from the land.
The LORD tells Moses that his death is near and summons him and Joshua to the Tent of Meeting. There he says Israel will turn to foreign gods after Moses' death, and he will hide his face from them.
The LORD says he will hide his face and send disaster, famine, plague, and the sword in response to their idols. He holds back from destroying them completely only because his enemies would misread the outcome.
Achan of Judah takes some of the things devoted to destruction, and the LORD is angry with Israel. Confident men attack Ai and are routed, with about thirty-six killed.
Joshua says he is about to die and that none of God's promises has failed. He warns that if Israel breaks the covenant and serves other gods, the LORD's threats will also come true.
Israel abandons the LORD and serves Baal and Ashtoreth, provoking His anger. He hands them over to plunderers and enemies, so that everything they attempt ends in distress.
Israel again does evil and serves the gods of many neighboring peoples. The LORD hands them over to the Philistines and Ammonites, who crush Israel east of the Jordan for eighteen years and cross the river to attack Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim.
The LORD's hand afflicts Ashdod with tumors. The people send the ark to Gath, where the same affliction breaks out.
When the ark is sent to Ekron, the people cry out in alarm and demand it be sent back. Death and tumors spread across the city.
Seventy men die for looking into the ark. Frightened, the people ask who can stand before this holy God and send to Kiriath-jearim for people to take the ark.
David sets out to bring the ark to Jerusalem on a new cart with celebration. When Uzzah touches the ark to steady it, God strikes him dead, so David is afraid and leaves the ark at the house of Obed-edom.