From Nave’s Topical Bible
Disobedience to God
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 58Passages listed
- 16Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- DENUNCIATIONS AGAINSTNumbers 14:11Numbers 14:12Numbers 14:22–24Numbers 32:8–13Deuteronomy 18:19Deuteronomy 28:15–68Leviticus 26:14–46
- PUNISHMENT OF
- Of the Egyptians by plagues
- See Plagues
- See [1386]SIN, Punishment of
- INSTANCES OF
- Of Adam and Eve, eating the forbidden fruitGenesis 3:6–11
- Of Lot, in refusing to go to the mountain, as commanded by the angelsGenesis 19:19Genesis 19:20
- Of Lot's wife, in looking back upon SodomGenesis 19:26
- Of Moses
- In making excuses when commissioned to deliver lsraelExodus 4:13Exodus 4:14
- When he struck the rockNumbers 20:11Numbers 20:23Numbers 20:24
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- Of Aaron, at the hitting of the rock by MosesNumbers 20:23Numbers 20:24
- Of Pharaoh, in refusing to let the people of Israel goExodus 5:2Exodus 7:13Exodus 7:22Exodus 7:23Exodus 8:15Exodus 8:19Exodus 8:32Exodus 9:12Exodus 9:34Exodus 10:20Exodus 10:27Exodus 11:10Exodus 14:8
- Of the people of Israel, in gathering excessive quantities of mannaExodus 16:19Exodus 16:20
- In refusing to enter the promised land withDeuteronomy 1:26Numbers 14:1–10Joshua 5:6Psalms 106:24Psalms 106:25
- Of Nadab and Abihu, in offering strange fireLeviticus 10:1Leviticus 10:2
- Of Balaam, in accompanying the messengers from BalakNumbers 22:22
- Of Achan, in hiding the wedge of gold and the Babylonian garnientJoshua 7:15–26
- Of Saul
- In offering a sacrifice1 Samuel 13:13
- In sparing Agag and the spoils of the Amalekites1 Samuel 151 Samuel 28:18
- Of David, in his adultery, and in arranging for the death of Uriah2 Samuel 12:9
- Of Solomon, in building places for idolatrous worship1 Kings 11:7–10
- Of the prophet of Judah, in not keeping the commandment to deliver his message to Jeroboam without delay1 Kings 13
- Of a man of Israel, who refused to strike the prophet1 Kings 20:351 Kings 20:36
- Of Ahab, in suffering the king of Assyria to escape out of his hands1 Kings 20:42
- Of priests, in not performing their functions after the due order1 Chronicles 15:13
- Of the people of JudahJeremiah 43:7
- Of the people of Judah, in going to live in Egypt contrary to divine commandJeremiah 44:12–14
- Of Jonah, in refusing to deliver the message to the NinevitesJonah 1
- Of the blind men Jesus healed, and ordered them not to proclaim their healingMatthew 9:30Matthew 9:31
- Of the leper whom Jesus healed, and ordered him not to proclaim the factMark 1:45
- Of Paul, in going to Jerusalem contrary to repeated warningsActs 21:4Acts 21:10–14
- OF CHILDREN
- See Children, Commandments to
- OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- See Commandments
The passages, in Bible order (58)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 3:6–11
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Commentary on Genesis 3:6–111 voice
That the Lord then was manifestly coming to His own things, and was sustaining them by means of that creation which is supported by Himself, and was making a recapitulation of that disobedience which had occurred in connection with a tree, through the obedience which was [exhibited by Himself when He hung] upon a tree, [the effects] also of that deception being done away with, by which that virgin Eve, who was already espoused to a man, was unhappily misled,-was happily announced, through means of the truth [spoken] by the angel to the Virgin Mary, who was [also espoused] to a man.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies 5.19.1Patristic
- Genesis 19:19
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Commentary on Genesis 19:191 voice
I cannot escape to the mountain - He saw the destruction so near, that he imagined he should not have time sufficient to reach the mountain before it arrived. He did not consider that God could give no command to his creatures that it would be impossible for them to fulfill; but the hurry and perturbation of his mind will at once account for and excuse this gross oversight.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 19:20
Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
Commentary on Genesis 19:202 voices
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto,.... Pointing to Bela, afterwards called Zoar, from what follows: it is said to be two miles distant from Sodom (z).
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
It is a little one - Probably Lot wished to have it for an inheritance, and therefore pleaded its being a little one, that his request might be the more readily granted. Or he might suppose, that being a little city, it was less depraved than Sodom and Gomorrah, and therefore not so ripe for punishment; which was probably the case.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 19:26
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Commentary on Genesis 19:262 voices
Probably she hankered after her house and goods in Sodom, and was loath to leave them. Christ intimates this to be her sin, Luke xvii, 31, 32, she too much regarded her stuff. And her looking back spoke an inclination to go back; and therefore our saviour uses it as a warning against apostasy from our Christian profession.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
But whether it was from irresistible curiosity or perturbation of feeling, or that she was about to return to save something, his wife lingered, and while thus disobeying the parting counsel, "to look not back, nor stay in all the plain" [Ge 19:17], the torrent of liquid lava enveloped her so that she became the victim of her supine indolence or sinful rashness.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Exodus 4:13
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
Commentary on Exodus 4:132 voices
I am not eloquent--It is supposed that Moses labored under a natural defect of utterance or had a difficulty in the free and fluent expression of his ideas in the Egyptian language, which he had long disused. This new objection was also overruled, but still Moses, who foresaw the manifold difficulties of the undertaking, was anxious to be freed from the responsibility.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Send - by the hand of him whom thou wilt send - Many commentators, both ancient and modern, have thought that Moses prays here for the immediate mission of the Messiah; as if he had said: “Lord, thou hast purposed to send this glorious person at some time or other, I beseech thee send him now, for who can be sufficient to deliver and rule this people but himself alone?” The Hebrew שלח נא ביד תשלח shelach na beyad tishlach literally translated is, Send now (or, I beseech thee) by the hand thou wilt send; which seems to intimate, Send a person more fit for the work than I am. So the Septuagint: Προχειρισαι δυναμενον αλλον, ὁν αποστελεις· Elect another powerful person, whom thou wilt send. It is right to find out the Messiah wherever he is mentioned in the Old Testament; but to press scriptures into this service which have not an obvious tendency that way, is both improper and dangerous. I am firmly of opinion that Moses had no reference to the Messiah when he spoke these words.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Exodus 4:14
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Commentary on Exodus 4:141 voice
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses - Surely this would not have been the case had he only in modesty, and from a deep sense of his own unfitness, desired that the Messiah should be preferred before him. But the whole connection shows that this interpretation is unfounded.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Exodus 5:2
But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Commentary on Exodus 5:22 voices
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord--rather "Jehovah." Lord was a common name applied to objects of worship; but Jehovah was a name he had never heard of. Pharaoh estimated the character and power of this God by the abject and miserable condition of the worshippers and concluded that He held as low a rank among the gods as His people did in the nation.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Who is the Lord - Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice? What claims has he on me? I am under no obligation to him. Pharaoh spoke here under the common persuasion that every place and people had a tutelary deity, and he supposed that this Jehovah might be the tutelary deity of the Israelites, to whom he, as an Egyptian, could be under no kind of obligation. It is not judicious to bring this question as a proof that Pharaoh was an atheist: of this the text affords no evidence.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Exodus 7:13
Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Commentary on Exodus 7:131 voice
And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart - ויחזק לב פרעה vaiyechezak leb Paroh, “And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,” the identical words which in Exo 7:22 are thus translated, and which should have been rendered in the same way here, lest the hardening, which was evidently the effect of his own obstinate shutting of his eyes against the truth, should be attributed to God. See Clarke’s note on Exo 4:21.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Exodus 7:22
But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Commentary on Exodus 7:222 voices
And the magicians did so - By God's permission with their enchantments; and this served Pharaoh for an excuse not to set his heart to this also, (ver. 23,) and a poor excuse it was. Could they have turned the river of blood into water again, it had been something; then they had proved their power, and Pharaoh had been obliged to them as his benefactors.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
And the magicians - did so - But if all the water in Egypt was turned into blood by Moses, where did the magicians get the water which they changed into blood? This question is answered in Exo 7:24. The Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink, and it seems that the water obtained by this means was not bloody like that in the river: on this water therefore the magicians might operate.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Exodus 7:23
Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
- Exodus 8:15
When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Commentary on Exodus 8:151 voice
Till the heart is renewed by the grace of God, the impressions made by the force of affliction do not abide; the convictions wear off, and the promises that were extorted are forgotten. Till the disposition of the air is changed, what thaws in the sun will freeze again in the shade. God's patience is shamefully abused by impenitent sinners.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Exodus 8:19
“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Commentary on Exodus 8:191 voice
The finger of God - This expression is thoroughly Egyptian; it need not imply that the magicians recognized Yahweh, the God who performed the marvel. They may possibly have referred it to as a god that was hostile to their own protectors.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Exodus 8:32
But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.
Commentary on Exodus 8:321 voice
Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also - See Exo 8:15. This hardening was the mere effect of his self-determining obstinacy. He preferred his gain to the will and command of Jehovah, and God made his obstinacy the means of showing forth his own power and providence in a supereminent degree.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Exodus 9:12
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.
Commentary on Exodus 9:121 voice
Note, Wilful hardness is commonly punished with judicial hardness. If men shut their eyes against the light, it is just with God to close their eyes. Let us dread this as the sorest judgment a man can be under on this side hell.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Exodus 9:34
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.
Commentary on Exodus 9:342 voices
He sinned yet more, and hardened his heart - These were merely acts of his own; “for who can deny,” says Mr. Psalmanazar, “that what God did on Pharaoh was much more proper to soften than to harden his heart; especially when it is observable that it was not till after seeing each miracle, and after the ceasing of each plague, that his heart is said to have been hardened?
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
The prayer of Moses opened and shut heaven, like Elias's ( Jam. v. 17, 18 ), and such is the power of God's two witnesses ( Rev. xi. 6 ); yet neither Moses nor Elias, nor those two witnesses, could subdue the hard hearts of men. Pharaoh was frightened into a compliance by the judgment, but, when it was over, his convictions vanished, and his fair promises were forgotten.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Exodus 10:20
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.
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