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Genesis 22:12,16-18
And he said, Lay not your hand on the lad, neither do you any thing to him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.
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Genesis 32:11
Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
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Genesis 42:21
And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he sought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come on us.
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Exodus 9:27,28
And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
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Exodus 10:7,16,17
And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: know you not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
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Exodus 12:31-33
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.
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Numbers 21:7
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
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Judges 10:6-8,10
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
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1 Samuel 12:9,10
And when they forgot the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
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1 Kings 13:1-10
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
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2 Chronicles 15:4
But when they in their trouble did turn to the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
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2 Chronicles 33:12,13
And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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Ezra 9:5-15
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,
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Nehemiah 9:32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keep covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
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Job 34:31,32
Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
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Job 40:1-5
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
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Psalm 18:4-6
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
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Psalm 66:10-12
For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
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Psalm 78:34,35
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
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Psalm 119:67,71
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.
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Isaiah 26:16
LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
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Jeremiah 31:18,19
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
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Lamentations 3:19,20
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
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Jonah 2:1-10
Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
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Luke 15:11-24
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
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Acts 8:24
Then answered Simon, and said, Pray you to the LORD for me, that none of these things which you have spoken come on me.
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Subtopics

Afflictions

Afflictions and Adversities in Pharaoh and the Egyptians

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Comparatively Light

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: End in Joy and Blessedness

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Joy Under

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: To be Expected

Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others

Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Ineffectual for Their Conversion