Verse 3

ג(Gimel) In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:11 : 11 Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!
  • Ps 75:5 : 5 Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!
  • Ps 75:10 : 10 God says,“I will bring down all the power of the wicked; the godly will be victorious.”
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.
  • Jer 48:25 : 25 Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long will this go on, O LORD? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue.
  • Isa 1:31 : 31 The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
  • Job 16:15 : 15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
  • Ps 89:24 : 24 He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love, and by my name he will win victories.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
  • Luke 1:69 : 69 For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
  • Luke 3:17 : 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
  • Jer 4:4 : 4 Commit yourselves to the LORD; Dedicate your hearts to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done.”
  • Jer 7:20 : 20 So,” the Sovereign LORD says,“my raging fury will be poured out on this land. It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. And it will burn like a fire which cannot be extinguished.”
  • Jer 21:4-5 : 4 that the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘The forces at your disposal are now outside the walls fighting against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians who have you under siege. I will gather those forces back inside the city. 5 In anger, in fury, and in wrath I myself will fight against you with my mighty power and great strength!
  • Jer 21:14 : 14 But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the LORD.‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”