Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  8000 The life of the believer  »  8700 Threats to the life of faith  »  8833 threats

Intimidating announcements of action to be taken unless conditions are met. God uses threats against tyrannical and disobedient earthly rulers as a means of restoring them to obedience and humility in his sight. God's people are not to threaten others and though the wicked will sometimes seek to intimidate them, they are to rely on God's protection.

God threatened Pharaoh

See also

Exodus 8:1-4,21; Exodus 9:2-3,13-14; Exodus 10:3-6

God threatened his own people

In general

Joshua 23:15-16 See also Leviticus 26:14-20; Deuteronomy 11:26-28; Deuteronomy 28:15-20; 1 Samuel 12:15,25; 1 Kings 9:6-7

Regarding the Babylonian captivity

Ezekiel 6:9-10 See also Jeremiah 6:8; Jeremiah 22:5-7; Jeremiah 44:28-29

Threats made by God may be averted

Through a faithful intercessor

Exodus 32:11-14 See also Nehemiah 1:8-9

Through turning from evil

Jonah 3:10

The result of threats inflicted by God may be alleviated

Through returning to the LORD

Deuteronomy 30:1-3

Through submission to God's will

See also Jeremiah 27:6-13

God's people may be threatened by others

Acts 9:1 See also 2 Kings 18:17-35 pp Isaiah 36:1-20; Nehemiah 4:7-8; Psalm 55:9-11; Psalm 73:8

God's people, when threatened, are to rely on him

Psalm 64:1-10 See also 2 Kings 19:6-7 pp Isaiah 37:6-7; Nehemiah 6:11-14; Isaiah 30:17-18; Acts 4:17-21,29-30

God's people are not to threaten others

Ephesians 6:9 See also 1 Peter 2:20-23

The rich are more likely to be threatened than the poor

Proverbs 13:8

See also

5828  danger
5937  rivalry
5959  submission
5978  warning
6702  peace, destruction
8483  spiritual warfare, causes
8650  hands, lifting up
8727  enemies
8754  fear
8790  oppression
8794  persecution
9210  judgment, God's