Exodus
4: 21
The
Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt. See that you perform before
Pharaoh all the wonders that I have given you the power to do. But I will
harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
Joshua
11: 18a, 19b-20
Joshua
waged war against all these kings for a long time. Not one city made a treaty
of peace with the Israelites who took them all in battle. For it was the
Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that
he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord
had commanded Moses.
Judges
9: 23a, 24
God
sent an “evil spirit”
between Abimelech and the citizens of Shechem. God did this in order that the
crime against Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons, the shedding of their [innocent] blood
might be avenged on their brother Abimelech and the citizens of Shechem.
1
Samuel 16: 14-15; 19: 9a, 11
Now
the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an “evil spirit” from the
Lord tormented him. Saul’s attendants said to him, “See, an ‘evil spirit’
from God is tormenting you. But an “evil spirit” from the Lord came upon Saul.
Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning.
2
Samuel 24: 1, 3a, b, 10
Again,
the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he [the Lord] “incited”
David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah” But
Joab replied to the king, “but why does my lord want to do such a thing?” David
was conscious-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to
the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O Lord, I beg you,
take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
NOTE: Another
version of the same event is recorded in the Chronicles, as in below:
1
Chronicles 21: 1a, 8a
Satan (??) rose up
against Israel and “incited” David to take a census of Israel. Then
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this.”
1
Kings 22: 20-22
And
the Lord said, “Who will ‘entice’ Ahab into attacking Ramoth-Gilead and going
to his death there?” One suggested this, and another that. Finally a “spirit”
came forward, stood before the Lord and said, “I will entice him.” “By what
means?” the Lord asked. I will go out and be a “lying spirit” in the mouths of
all his prophets, he said. You will succeed in ‘enticing’ him, said the Lord. “Go
and do it.”
2
Kings 19: 6a, 7, 9a, 36-37a
This
is what the Lord says, I am going to put a “spirit” in him that when he
hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will
have him cut down with the sword. Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakeh
the Cushite king of Egypt, was marching out against him. So Sennacherib, king
of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
One day, while he was worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons
Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword.
Job
2: 1, 3
On
another day when the angels came to present themselves before the Lord and
Satan also came with them. The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my
servant Job?” There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright; a
man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though
you “incite” me to ruin (destroy) him without a cause.
Job
2: 10b; 42: 7
Job
replied. . . “Shall we accept [only??] good from God, and not evil
(trouble/adversity)?”After the Lord said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your friends because you have not spoken of me what is right; as my servant Job has.
Isaiah
45: 6b-7
I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create [the] darkness.
I make peace, and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things.
Robert
Randle
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October 18, 2016
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