Afflictions and Adversities

How Nave’s arranged it

• MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS
• God regulates the measure of afflictionsPsalms 80:5Isaiah 9:1Jeremiah 46:28
• Determines the continuance ofGenesis 15:13Genesis 15:14Numbers 14:33Isaiah 10:25Jeremiah 29:10
• Does not willingly sendLamentations 3:33
• Man is born toJob 5:6Job 5:7Job 14:1
• Saints appointed to1 Thessalonians 3:3
• Consequent upon the fallGenesis 3:16–19
• Sin producesJob 4:8Job 20:11Proverbs 1:31
• Sinners corrected by2 Samuel 12:14Psalms 89:30–32Isaiah 57:17Acts 13:10Acts 13:11
• Often severeJob 16:7–16Psalms 42:7Psalms 66:12Jonah 2:3Revelation 7:14
• Always less than deservedEzra 9:13Psalms 103:10
• Results of, goodGenesis 50:20Exodus 1:11Exodus 1:12Deuteronomy 8:15Deuteronomy 8:16Jeremiah 24:5Jeremiah 24:6Ezekiel 20:37

The passages, in Bible order (835)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 3:16–19

   To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:16–191 voice

   “(Verse 16) I will multiply your sorrows and your groanings. For sorrow and groaning, it has pains and conception in Hebrew. And for your conversion. Regarding the conversion of Aquila, the society: Symmachus transferred the desire or impulse.

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2. Genesis 3:17

   And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 3:172 voices

   “The two sentences seem to have a certain similarity, yet in that similarity there is a great difference. There is a difference in the way a person eats of the earth, as the serpent is related to have done and the manner in which this is recorded of the man: 'In sadness shall you eat.' That very phrase 'in sadness' makes the precise difference. Note how important this difference is.

   “And unto Adam he said,....

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3. Genesis 15:13

   Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 15:132 voices

   “This word anticipates the sojourn of the people in Egypt, for they were to sojourn as it were in a land not their own. They would be reduced to slavery by the Pharaoh and mistreated in many ways by him and by the Egyptians. There …

   “And he said unto Abram,....

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4. Genesis 15:14

   But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 15:141 voice

   “And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge,....

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5. Genesis 16:7–13

   Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 16:7–131 voice

   “(Verse 7) And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the desert, by the fountain on the way to Shur. Then the Egyptian woman hurriedly went on the way to Shur, which leads through the desert to Egypt.

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6. Genesis 21:17

   Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 21:171 voice

   “And God heard the voice of the lad,....

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7. Genesis 22:12

   “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 22:122 voices

   “He showed the ram in the thicket in the stead of the lad, that He might restore the son to his father, and yet the victim not fail the priest. And so Abraham was not stained with his son's blood, nor was God deprived of the sacrifice. The prophet spoke, and neither yielded to boastfulness nor continued obstinate, but took the ram in exchange for the lad. And by this is shown the more how piously he offered him whom he now so gladly received back.

   “And he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad,....

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8. Genesis 22:16–18

   saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 22:16–181 voice

   “This is Isaac the co-heir of the promises and the blessings of God given to Abraham his father—who was a type of the sacrifice of the Lord Christ, since for three days he travelled on to death, and afterwards returned alive—who on his own shoulders …

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9. Genesis 26:17

   So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 26:172 voices

   “(Verse 17.) And Isaac departed from there and came to the valley of Gerar, and he dwelt there. The valley has a stream in Hebrew. For Isaac could not dwell in the valley after he became great. However, he dwelt by the stream, of which it is written: He shall drink from the brook by the way (Psalm 110:7). Also, during the time of famine, Elijah drank from that stream. But because Elijah was not perfect like Christ, therefore that stream dried up for him (1 Kings 17:7).

   “And Isaac departed thence,.... At once, peaceably and quietly, though to his loss and disadvantage, without taking himself either to argument or arms, in favour of himself; he departed immediately, as soon as he perceived his abode was disagreeable to the king and his people; which gives us a very agree, able idea of the calm and peaceable disposition of Isaac: and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there; at some distance from the city of Gerar, as Jarchi observes.

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10. Genesis 26:33

    So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 26:332 voices

    “(Verse 32 and 33.) And the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug, and they said to him, 'We have found water.' So he called it Shebah. I don't know how it is translated in the Septuagint: 'And the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug, and they said to him, 'We have not found water.' So he called it Oath.' What is the etymology behind calling it Oath just because they did not find water?

    “And he called it Sheba,....

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11. Genesis 31:42

    If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

    ›Commentary on Genesis 31:422 voices

    “Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me,....

    “The fear of Isaac - It is strange that Jacob should say, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, when both words are meant of the same Being.

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12. Genesis 32:11

    Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 32:112 voices

    “Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau,....

    “And the mother with the children - He must have had an awful opinion of his brother when he used this expression, which implies the utmost cruelty, proceeding in the work of slaughter to total extermination. See Hos 10:14.

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13. Genesis 42:21

    Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

    ›Commentary on Genesis 42:211 voice

    “If we notice carefully, dearly beloved, we will realize that Joseph did to his brothers what we believe God did to blessed Jacob. Truly he was so holy that he could not have hated them. Therefore we must believe that he wearied them with so …

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14. Genesis 43:14

    May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

    ›Commentary on Genesis 43:142 voices

    “And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,....

    “This verse may be literally translated thus: - “And God, the all-sufficient, shall give you tender mercies before the man, and send to you your other brother, and Benjamin; and I, as I shall be childless, so I shall be childless.” That is, I will submit to this privation, till God shall restore my children. It appears that this verse is spoken prophetically; and that God at this time gave Jacob a supernatural evidence that his children should be restored.

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15. Genesis 45:5

    And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 45:52 voices

    “Now therefore be not grieved,....

    “Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves - This discovers a truly noble mind: he not only forgives and forgets, but he wishes even those who had wronged him to forget the injury they had done, that they might not suffer distress on the account; and with deep piety he attributes the whole to the providence of God; for, says he, God did send me before you to preserve life. On every word here a strong emphasis may be laid.

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16. Genesis 45:7

    God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 45:71 voice

    “And God sent me before you,....

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