Blasphemy

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningExodus 20:7Leviticus 19:12Leviticus 22:32Leviticus 24:10–16Deuteronomy 5:112 Samuel 12:142 Kings 19:222 Chronicles 32:19Job 9:16Job 9:17Job 9:34Job 9:35Job 10:2–7Job 13:7–9Job 13:25–27Job 15:13Job 15:25Job 15:26Job 16:9Job 16:11
• Prophecy ofRevelation 13:1Revelation 13:5Revelation 13:6Revelation 16:9Revelation 16:11Revelation 16:21Revelation 17:3
• INSTANCES OF
• The depraved son of Shelomith, who, in an altercation with an Israelite, cursed GodLeviticus 24:10–16
• Of the Israelites, in complaining against GodNumbers 21:5Numbers 21:6
• Infidels, who used the adultery of David as an occasion to blaspheme2 Samuel 12:14
• Shimei, in his malice toward David2 Samuel 16:5
• Rabshakeh, in the siege of Jerusalem2 Kings 18:222 Kings 19Isaiah 36:15–20Isaiah 37:10–33
• Job's wife, when she exhorted JOB to curse God and dieJob 2:9
• Peter, when accused of being a disciple of JesusMatthew 26:74Mark 14:71
• The revilers of Jesus, when he was crucifiedMatthew 27:40–44Matthew 27:63
• The early Christians, persecuted by Saul of Tarsus, compelled to blaspheme the name of JesusActs 26:111 Timothy 1:13

The passages, in Bible order (137)

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. Exodus 20:7

   You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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   “Although making a variety of suppositions about him, we all know something of God but do not all know what he is, for few indeed and fewer (if I may say so) than few are they who grasp his holiness in all things. Thus we are rightly taught to pray that our concept of God may be hallowed among us.

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2. Leviticus 19:12

   You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

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   “And ye shall not swear by my name falsely,.... Or "to a falsehood" (x), to any of the above cases; as that a man has not the deposit of another's in his hands, when he has; or that such a man owes him so much money, when he does not, or any other false thing.

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3. Leviticus 22:32

   You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

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   “Neither shall ye profane my holy name,....

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4. Leviticus 24:10–16

   Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

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   “And the son of an Israelitish woman,....

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5. Numbers 21:5

   and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

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   “And the people spake against God,....

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6. Numbers 21:6

   So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

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   “The wounds caused by the fiery serpent are the poisonous enticements of the vices, which afflict the soul and bring about its spiritual death. The people were murmuring against the Lord. They were stricken by the serpents' bites. This provides an excellent instance of how …

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7. Deuteronomy 5:11

   You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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8. 2 Samuel 12:14

   Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

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   “Howbeit, because by this deed,....

   Are you ashamed, sir, to do as David did—David, the king and the prophet, the ancestor of Christ according to the flesh? He was told of the rich man who had a great number of flocks and yet, when a guest arrived, took the poor man's one ewe lamb and killed it; and when he recognized that he was himself condemned by the story, he said, "I have sinned against the Lord." Therefore do not take it ill, sir, if what was said to King David is said to you, "You are the man."

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9. 2 Samuel 16:5

   As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.

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   “And when King David came to Bahurim,....

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10. 1 Kings 21:13

    And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

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    “And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him,.... Which position showed that they were his accusers, and had a charge against him; it being usual for the accusers and accused to be set face to face, as it was the manner of the Romans in later times, Act 25:

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11. 2 Kings 18:22

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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    “As I have already said, Sennacherib is a type of the devil, and this hypothesis is perfectly confirmed by the words that in this passage the Rabshakeh boastfully speaks against God when he makes false promises to the people, trying to take away from [God] …

    “Whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away - This was artfully malicious. Many of the people sacrificed to Jehovah on the high places; Hezekiah had removed them, (2Ki 18:4), because they were incentives to idolatry: Rab-shakeh insinuates that by so doing he had offended Jehovah, deprived the people of their religious rights, and he could neither expect the blessing of God nor the cooperation of the people.

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12. 2 Kings 19:1

    On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

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    “And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it,.... The report of Rabshakeh's speech, recorded in the preceding chapter: that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth; rent his clothes because of the blasphemy in the speech; and he put on sackcloth, in token of mourning, for the calamities he feared were coming on him and his people: and he went into the house of the Lord; the temple, to pray unto him.

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13. 2 Kings 19:22

    Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

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    “The Holy One of Israel - This is a favorite phrase with Isaiah, in whose prophecies it is found 27 times, while it occurs five times only in the rest of Scripture Psa 71:22; Psa 78:41; Psa 89:18; Jer 50:29; Jer 51:5. Its occurrence here is a strong proof - one among many - of the genuineness of the present passage, which is not the composition of the writer of Kings, but an actual prophecy delivered at this time by Isaiah.

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14. 2 Chronicles 32:19

    They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

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    “And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,.... The only living and true God, whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem professed to be their God, and who was worshipped by them in the temple there: as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man; they made no difference between the one and the other, but spoke as freely and as contemptibly of the one as of the other, see Isa 36:19.

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15. Job 2:9

    Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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    “ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. For of what did that mispersuading woman bear the likeness, but of all the carnal that are settled in the bosom of Holy Church, who in proportion as by the words of the Faith they profess they are within the pale, press harder on all the good by their ill-regulated conduct.

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16. Job 9:16

    If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

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    “And when I have called and He hath answered me, yet do I not believe that He hath hearkened unto my voice. For very often the mind is set on fire with the flame of Divine love, and is uplifted to behold heavenly things and secret mysteries.

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