Acts 13:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

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  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
  • Exod 9:3 : 3 then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
  • 1 Sam 5:11 : 11 So they assembled all the leaders of the Philistines and said,“Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us and our people!” The terror of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there.
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.
  • 2 Kgs 6:8 : 8 Elisha Defeats an Army Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said,“Invade at such and such a place.”
  • 1 Sam 5:6-7 : 6 The LORD attacked the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. 7 When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said,“The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, for he has attacked both us and our god Dagon!”
  • 1 Sam 5:9 : 9 But after it had been moved the LORD attacked that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city with sores.
  • Ps 38:2 : 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.
  • Ps 39:10-11 : 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death! 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).
  • John 9:39 : 39 Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”
  • Acts 9:8-9 : 8 So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus. 9 For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.
  • Acts 9:17 : 17 So Ananias departed and entered the house, placed his hands on Saul and said,“Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
  • Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened, 8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.” 9 And David says,“Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
  • Heb 10:31 : 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
  • 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

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