Dictionary of Bible Themes People whose walk, physical or spiritual, is hindered by deformity, permanent or temporary. Acts 3:2Physically crippled from birth See also Acts 14:82 Samuel 4:4 Physically crippled in life See also By accident 2 Samuel 9:3,13Genesis 32:24-25 By God See also Genesis 32:31-32God had a purpose in the crippling of Jacob: it was a mark of his meeting with God. Hebrews 11:21Luke 13:11 See also By Satan Luke 13:16Luke 7:22 Cripples healed By Jesus Christ See also Matthew 15:30-31pp Mt 11:4-5 John 5:1-9Acts 3:7 See also By others Acts 4:9-10; 8:7; 14:9-10Leviticus 21:18-19 Cripples and OT sacrifice See also Leviticus 21:6A man must be without defect. Physical disability is a defilement to holiness. Malachi 1:8Crippled animals See also Exodus 12:5Animals, like people, must be holy, without defect, when brought to the LORD. Leviticus 3:1; 4:3; 22:18-25Numbers 6:14; 28:3 Deuteronomy 15:21; 17:1 Malachi 1:13-14 Matthew 18:8 Spiritual aspects of being crippled See also Physical crippling preferable to spiritual lameness Mark 5:29-30; 9:43Micah 4:6-7 See also Cripples disadvantaged in life but welcome in the kingdom of God Jeremiah 31:8Ezekiel 34:16 Luke 14:13,21 Isaiah 35:6 See also Spiritual cripples healed Hebrews 12:13See also 2351 Christ, miracles4120 Satan 5094 Jacob 5163 legs 5296 disabilities 5333 healing 5346 injury 5378 law, OT 7413 priesthood, OT 7435 sacrifice, in OT |
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