From Nave’s Topical Bible
Instability
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.
- 50Passages listed
- 21Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningGenesis 49:3Genesis 49:4Exodus 8:15Exodus 8:32Exodus 9:34Exodus 10:8–11Exodus 10:16–20Exodus 14:5Exodus 32:8–10Exodus 19:8Exodus 24:3Exodus 24:7Judges 2:171 Kings 18:21Psalms 106:12Psalms 106:13Proverbs 24:21Proverbs 24:22Proverbs 27:8Jeremiah 2:36
- See Backsliding
- See Hypocrisy
- See Indecision
- INSTANCES OF
- ReubenGenesis 49:4
- Saul, in his feelings toward David1 Samuel 18:19
- David, in yielding to lust2 Samuel 11:2–9
- Solomon, in yielding to his idolatrous wives1 Kings 11:1–8
- Ephraim and JudahHosea 6:4
- Lot's wifeLuke 17:32
- Some disciples of JesusJohn 6:66
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- MarkActs 15:38
The passages, in Bible order (50)
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 49:3
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
Commentary on Genesis 49:31 voice
(Chapter 49, verse 3) Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the first of my sons, tough in bearing and tough in insolence and injury, like water that does not boil. You went up on your father's bed, then you defiled it when you went up. In Hebrew it is written: Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength, and the first in power among my sons. Greater in carrying, and greater in strength. You are poured out like water, do not exceed. For you have ascended the bed of your father and defiled the couch in his ascent.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Genesis 49:4
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Commentary on Genesis 49:41 voice
Doesn't this seem to be a reproach rather than a blessing? Thus it really is more a prophecy than a blessing. For a prophecy is an announcement of events to come, whereas a blessing is the longed for bestowal of sanctification and of graces.The Jews suppose that the old man is saying these things to his son Reuben on this account, because the latter lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and polluted his father's bed. But they are easily refuted; this had already taken place.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Blessings of the Patriarchs, 397Patristic
- 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
But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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
And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also,.... As he did before, when he found the plague was removed, and the flies were gone: neither would he let the people go; through pride and covetousness, being loath to have the number of those under his dominion so much diminished, and to lose so large a branch of his revenues arising from the labour of these people.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders were ceased,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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 Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Exodus 10:8–11
So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”
Commentary on Exodus 10:8–111 voice
And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 10:16–20
Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
Commentary on Exodus 10:16–201 voice
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste,.... Or, "hastened to call them" (t); sent messengers in all haste to fetch them, and desire them to come as soon as possible to him.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 14:5
When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
Commentary on Exodus 14:51 voice
And it was told the king of Egypt,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 19:8
And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
Commentary on Exodus 19:81 voice
And all the people answered together,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 24:3
When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
Commentary on Exodus 24:31 voice
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 24:7
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
Commentary on Exodus 24:71 voice
And he took the book of the covenant,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 32:8–10
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
Commentary on Exodus 32:8–101 voice
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 2:17
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
Commentary on Judges 2:171 voice
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Samuel 18:19
So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 18:191 voice
It came to pass then, when Merob was to be given, etc. It came to pass, when the greater part of the Jewish people ought to have believed in Christ teaching in the flesh, they rather believed and adhered to the scribes and Pharisees. However, …
Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735Patristic
- 2 Samuel 11:2–9
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:2–92 voices
We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries, wonder how such a great prophet did not avoid the contagion of adultery first and then of murder. Therefore, it was our desire to review the history itself, which seems to have been exposed to sin.
Ambrose of Milan· Apology for the Prophet David, Chapter 1, 397Patristic
And it came to pass in an eveningtide,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 11:1–8
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Commentary on 1 Kings 11:1–81 voice
In the previous chapters the Scripture related the marriage of Solomon with the daughter of Pharaoh and did not rebuke him because she was the one wife only who did not secretly practice the religion of her homeland and was no reason of offense for …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 11:1, 373Patristic
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