100 Bible Verses About Divine Intervention
Bible verses about Divine Intervention
Exploring divine intervention through scripture offers a profound understanding of God's active presence in our lives and the world. These verses illuminate moments where God transcends natural laws, directly influencing events and offering miraculous solutions. Understanding divine intervention isn't about expecting constant miracles, but recognizing God's sovereignty and unwavering love. It strengthens our faith, reminding us that we are never truly alone and that even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges, God's power and grace can intervene. Studying these passages fosters hope, encouraging us to trust in His divine plan, even when we cannot fully comprehend it.
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Job 9:33 (KJV)
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward.
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela–hammahlekoth.
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord. And they went unto their own home.
Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
And he enquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying,
That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth–el.
Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth–el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth–car.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the Lord hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
The Bible overflows with accounts of divine intervention, showcasing God's active and intentional participation in human affairs. From miraculous deliverances and prophetic guidance to direct acts of healing and provision, these verses reveal a God who is not distant or detached, but intimately involved in the lives of His people. Reflecting on these scriptures encourages us to recognize God's hand at work even in our own lives, both in moments of dramatic intervention and in the subtle unfolding of His plans. May these verses inspire us to cultivate a deeper awareness of God's presence, a greater trust in His power, and a willingness to seek His guidance, knowing that He is always working for our good and His glory. Let us remain open to His intervention, confident that He hears our prayers and responds according to His perfect will.