Afflictions and Adversities

God regulates the measure of afflictions

• Psalms 80:5

  Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

• Isaiah 9:1

  Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

• Jeremiah 46:28

  Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

Determines the continuance of

• Genesis 15:13

  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

• Genesis 15:14

  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

• Numbers 14:33

  And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

• Isaiah 10:25

  For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

• Jeremiah 29:10

  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Does not willingly send

• Lamentations 3:33

  For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Man is born to

• Job 5:6

  Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

• Job 5:7

  Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

• Job 14:1

  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Saints appointed to

• 1 Thessalonians 3:3

  That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

Consequent upon the fall

• Genesis 3:16–19

  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; …

Sin produces

• Job 4:8

  Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

• Job 20:11

  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

• Proverbs 1:31

  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Sinners corrected by

• 2 Samuel 12:14

  Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

• Psalms 89:30–32

  If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Isaiah 57:17

  For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

• Acts 13:10

  And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

• Acts 13:11

  And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Often severe

• Job 16:7–16

  But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. …

• Psalms 42:7

  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

• Psalms 66:12

  Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

• Jonah 2:3

  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

• Revelation 7:14

  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Always less than deserved

• Ezra 9:13

  And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

• Psalms 103:10

  He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Results of, good

• Genesis 50:20

  But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

• Exodus 1:11

  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

• Exodus 1:12

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 8:15

  Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

• Deuteronomy 8:16

  Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

• Jeremiah 24:5

  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

• Jeremiah 24:6

  For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

• Ezekiel 20:37

  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

Tempered with mercy

• Psalms 78:38

  But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

• Psalms 78:39

  For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

• Psalms 106:43–46

  Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. …

• Isaiah 30:18–21

  And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: …

• Lamentations 3:32

  But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

• Micah 7:7–9

  Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

• Nahum 1:12

  Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

To be expected

• John 16:33

  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

• Acts 14:22

  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Comparatively light

• Acts 20:23

  Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

• Romans 8:18

  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

• 2 Corinthians 4:17

  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Acts 24

Temporary

• Psalms 30:5

  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

• Psalms 103:9

  He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

• Isaiah 54:7

  For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

• Isaiah 54:8

  In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

• John 16:20

  Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

• 1 Peter 1:6

  Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

• 1 Peter 5:10

  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Joy under

• Job 5:17

  Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

• James 5:11

  Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

End in joy and blessedness

• Psalms 126:5

  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

• Psalms 126:6

  He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

• Isaiah 61:2

  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

• Isaiah 61:3

  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

• Matthew 5:4

  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

• 1 Peter 4:13

  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

• 1 Peter 4:14

  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Often arise from the profession of the gospel

• Matthew 24:9

  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

• John 15:21

  But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

• 2 Timothy 3:11

  Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

• 2 Timothy 3:12

  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God

• Deuteronomy 8:5

  Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

• Psalms 119:75

  I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

• Proverbs 3:12

  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

• 1 Corinthians 11:32

  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

• Hebrews 12:6

  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

• Hebrews 12:7

  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

• Revelation 3:19

  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

God is glorified in

• Exodus 14:4

  And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

• Ezekiel 38:22

  And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

• Ezekiel 38:23

  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

God holds in derision

• Psalms 37:13

  The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

• Proverbs 1:27

  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Are multiplied

• Deuteronomy 31:17

  Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

• Job 20:5

  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

• Job 21:17

  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

• Psalms 32:10

  Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

Continual

• Job 15:20

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

• Ecclesiastes 2:23

  For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

• Isaiah 32:10

  Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

Often sudden

• Psalms 73:19

  How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

• Isaiah 30:13

  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

• Revelation 18:10

  Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

Are often judicially sent

• Job 21:17

  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

• Psalms 107:17

  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

• Jeremiah 30:15

  Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

Are for examples to others

• Psalms 64:7–9

  But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

• Zephaniah 3:6

  I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

• Zephaniah 3:7

  I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

• 1 Corinthians 10:5

  But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

• 2 Peter 2:6

  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

Are ineffectual for their conversion

• Exodus 9:30

  But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.

• Isaiah 9:13

  For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

• Jeremiah 2:30

  In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

• Haggai 2:17

  I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Their persecution of saints, a cause of

• Deuteronomy 30:7

  And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

• Psalms 55:19

  God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

• Zechariah 2:9

  For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:6

  Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Impenitence is a cause of

• Proverbs 1:30

  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

• Proverbs 1:31

  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

• Ezekiel 24:13

  In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

• Amos 4:6–12

  And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. …

• Zechariah 7:11

  But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

• Zechariah 7:12

  Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

• Revelation 2:21

  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Revelation 22

Sometimes humble them

• 1 Kings 21:27

  And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Frequently harden

• Nehemiah 9:28

  But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

• Nehemiah 9:29

  And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

• Jeremiah 5:3

  O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Produce slavish fear

• Job 15:24

  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

• Psalms 73:19

  How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

• Jeremiah 49:5

  Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

Saints should not be alarmed at

• Proverbs 3:25

  Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

• Proverbs 3:26

  For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

In Pharaoh and the Egyptians

• Exodus 9:14

  For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

• Exodus 9:15

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• Exodus 14:24

  And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

• Exodus 14:25

  And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

Ahaziah

• 2 Kings 1:1–4

  Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? …

Gehazi

• 2 Kings 5:27

  The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

Jehoram

• 2 Chronicles 21:12–19

  And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: …

Uzziah

• 2 Chronicles 26:19–21

  Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

Ahaz, etc

• 2 Chronicles 28:5–8

  Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. …

• 2 Chronicles 28:22

  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

David

• Psalms 31:11

  I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

• Psalms 31:12

  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

• Psalms 41:9

  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

• Psalms 88:8

  Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

• Psalms 88:18

  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Jesus

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Paul

• 2 Timothy 4:16

  At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Joseph's brethren

Genesis 42:21

Joseph

Genesis 45:5, Genesis 45:7, Genesis 45:8

Israel

Deuteronomy 8:3, Deuteronomy 8:5

Josiah

2 Kings 22:19

Hezekiah

2 Chronicles 32:25, 2 Chronicles 32:26

Manasseh

2 Chronicles 33:12

Jonah

Jonah 2:7

Prodigal son

Luke 15:21

Pharaoh

Exodus 8:19, Exodus 9:30–34, Exodus 14:5–9

Asa

2 Chronicles 16:12

Ahaz

2 Chronicles 28:22, 2 Chronicles 28:23

Pharaoh

Exodus 8:8, Exodus 9:27–30, Exodus 12:30, Exodus 12:31, Exodus 14:5–9

David

2 Samuel 12:15, 2 Samuel 12:16, 2 Samuel 12:23

Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 4:28–37

Levites

Nehemiah 9:33

Aaron, at the death of Nadab and Abihu

Leviticus 10:1–3

Against his house were foretold

1 Samuel 3:15–18

David, at the death of his child

2 Samuel 12:23

The Shunammite woman

2 Kings 4:18–37

Jesus, in Gethsemane

Matthew 26:39, Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42, John 18:11

Paul and Silas in prison

Acts 16:23–25