24 So he turned around and looked at them, and (A)pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

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Then Saul, who also is called Paul, (A)filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him 10 and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, (B)you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? 11 And now, indeed, (C)the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.”

And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

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Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together (A)to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

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Then Ananias, hearing these words, (A)fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.

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17 “Therefore(A) thus says the Lord:

(B)‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;
Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey line;
You shall die in a (C)defiled land;
And Israel shall surely be led away captive
From his own land.’ ”

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20 But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because (A)you thought that (B)the gift of God could be purchased with money!

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21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”

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14 In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.”

And His disciples heard it.

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I will meet them (A)like a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The [a]wild beast shall tear them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:8 Lit. beast of the field

65 Give them [a]a veiled heart;
Your curse be upon them!

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  1. Lamentations 3:65 A Jewish tradition sorrow of

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a (A)lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes. 22 (B)And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, (C)whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire”; 23 because (D)they have done disgraceful things in Israel, have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed I (E)know, and am a witness, says the Lord.

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16 Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall (A)die, because you have taught (B)rebellion against the Lord.’ ”

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25 So I (A)contended with them and [a]cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them (B)swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 (C)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, (D)who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. (E)Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, (F)transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”

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  1. Nehemiah 13:25 pronounced them cursed

10 So Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then (A)let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. 11 Then he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty men.

And he answered and said to him: “Man of God, thus has the king said, ‘Come down quickly!’ ”

12 So Elijah answered and said to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

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36 Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, surely, as soon as you depart from me, a lion shall kill you.” And as soon as he left him, (A)a lion found him and killed him.

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17 (A)It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will (B)kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, (C)Elisha will kill.

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24 When he was gone, (A)a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the corpse.

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For,” said Hushai, “you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are enraged in their minds, like (A)a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not camp with the people.

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57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came (A)the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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Curses on Disobedience(A)

15 “But it shall come to pass, (B)if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

18 “Cursed shall be the [a]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20 “The Lord will send on you (C)cursing, (D)confusion, and (E)rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21 The Lord will make the [b]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 (F)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with (G)scorching,[c] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (H)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 (I)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become [d]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 (J)Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:18 offspring
  2. Deuteronomy 28:21 pestilence
  3. Deuteronomy 28:22 blight
  4. Deuteronomy 28:25 a terror

(A)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (B)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (C)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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  1. Exodus 20:5 worship
  2. Exodus 20:5 punishing

25 Then he said:

(A)“Cursed be Canaan;
A (B)servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren.”

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(A)and being ready to punish all disobedience when (B)your obedience is fulfilled.

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15 (A)Like a roaring lion and a charging bear
(B)Is a wicked ruler over poor people.

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12 Let a man meet (A)a bear robbed of her cubs,
Rather than a fool in his folly.

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