Disobedience to God

Of the Egyptians by plagues

Of Adam and Eve, eating the forbidden fruit

• Genesis 3:6–11

  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. …

Of Lot, in refusing to go to the mountain, as commanded by the angels

• Genesis 19:19

  Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

• Genesis 19:20

  Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

Of Lot's wife, in looking back upon Sodom

• Genesis 19:26

  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Of Moses

In making excuses when commissioned to deliver lsrael

• Exodus 4:13

  And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

• Exodus 4:14

  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

When he struck the rock

• Numbers 20:11

  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

• Numbers 20:23

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,

• Numbers 20:24

  Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

Of Aaron, at the hitting of the rock by Moses

• Numbers 20:23

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,

• Numbers 20:24

  Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

Of Pharaoh, in refusing to let the people of Israel go

• Exodus 5:2

  And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

• Exodus 7:13

  And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

• Exodus 7:22

  And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.

• Exodus 7:23

  And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.

• Exodus 8:15

  But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

• Exodus 8:19

  Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

• Exodus 8:32

  And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

• Exodus 9:12

  And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.

• Exodus 9:34

  And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

• Exodus 10:20

  But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

• Exodus 10:27

  But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.

• Exodus 11:10

  And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

• Exodus 14:8

  And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.

Of the people of Israel, in gathering excessive quantities of manna

• Exodus 16:19

  And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

• Exodus 16:20

  Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

In refusing to enter the promised land

• Deuteronomy 1:26

  Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:

• Numbers 14:1–10

  And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? …

• Joshua 5:6

  For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

• Psalms 106:24

  Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

• Psalms 106:25

  But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

Of Nadab and Abihu, in offering strange fire

• Leviticus 10:1

  And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

• Leviticus 10:2

  And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Of Balaam, in accompanying the messengers from Balak

• Numbers 22:22

  And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

Of Achan, in hiding the wedge of gold and the Babylonian garnient

• Joshua 7:15–26

  And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: …

Of Saul

In offering a sacrifice

• 1 Samuel 13:13

  And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

In sparing Agag and the spoils of the Amalekites

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.

1 Samuel 15

Of David, in his adultery, and in arranging for the death of Uriah

• 2 Samuel 12:9

  Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Of Solomon, in building places for idolatrous worship

• 1 Kings 11:7–10

  Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, …

Of the prophet of Judah, in not keeping the commandment to deliver his message to Jeroboam without delay

1 Kings 13

Of a man of Israel, who refused to strike the prophet

• 1 Kings 20:35

  And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.

• 1 Kings 20:36

  Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

Of Ahab, in suffering the king of Assyria to escape out of his hands

• 1 Kings 20:42

  And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

Of priests, in not performing their functions after the due order

• 1 Chronicles 15:13

  For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

Of the people of Judah

• Jeremiah 43:7

  So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

Of the people of Judah, in going to live in Egypt contrary to divine command

• Jeremiah 44:12–14

  And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

Of Jonah, in refusing to deliver the message to the Ninevites

Jonah 1

Of the blind men Jesus healed, and ordered them not to proclaim their healing

• Matthew 9:30

  And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

• Matthew 9:31

  But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

Of the leper whom Jesus healed, and ordered him not to proclaim the fact

• Mark 1:45

  But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

Of Paul, in going to Jerusalem contrary to repeated warnings

• Acts 21:4

  And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• Acts 21:10–14

  And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judæa a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. …

Of children

Of the righteous