Topic
Enemy
60 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Proverbs 25:21ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
- Romans 12:20ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
- Exodus 1:10ISBE
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
- Exodus 23:4ISBE
¶ If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- Exodus 23:5Nave General scriptures concerning
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
- Exodus 32:25ISBE
¶ And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
- Numbers 10:9ISBE
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 24:8ISBE
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Deuteronomy 32:41ISBE
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
- 1 Samuel 28:16ISBE
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
- 2 Samuel 19:6Nave Instances of forgiveness of — David, of Absalom, and co-conspirators
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
- 2 Samuel 19:12Nave Instances of forgiveness of — David, of Absalom, and co-conspirators
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
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- 2 Samuel 19:13 Nave Instances of forgiveness of — David, of Absalom, and co-conspirators
- 2 Kings 6:22 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 ISBE
- Esther 3:10 ISBE
- Job 16:9 ISBE
- Job 31:29 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Job 31:30 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 5:8 ISBE
- Psalms 6:7 ISBE
- Psalms 7:6 ISBE
- Psalms 8:2 ISBE
- Psalms 9:6 ISBE
- Psalms 10:5 ISBE
- Psalms 27:2 ISBE
- Psalms 27:11 ISBE
- Psalms 27:12 ISBE
- Psalms 35:1–28 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 44:10 ISBE
- Psalms 56:5 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 57:4 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 57:6 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 62:4 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 69:4 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 69:9 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 71:10 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 102:8 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 109:2–5 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Psalms 129:1–3 Nave The wickedness of David's
- Proverbs 24:17 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Proverbs 24:18 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Proverbs 25:22 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Proverbs 27:6 ISBE
- Isaiah 26:11 ISBE
- Isaiah 59:19 ISBE
- Daniel 4:19 ISBE
- Matthew 5:14 ISBE
- Matthew 5:43 ISBE
- Matthew 5:43–48 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Matthew 13:28 ISBE
- Mark 12:36 ISBE
- Luke 1:71 ISBE
- Luke 1:74 ISBE
- Luke 6:27–36 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Luke 23:34 Nave Jesus, of his persecutors
- Acts 7:60 Nave Stephen, of his murderers
- Romans 5:10 ISBE
- Romans 11:28 ISBE
- Romans 12:14 Nave General scriptures concerning
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 36 references
en'-e-mi ('oyebh, tsar, tsar; echthros):
"Enemy," "enemies," are frequent words in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word most often so translated is 'oyebh, meaning perhaps literally, "one who hates"; very frequent in the Psalms, eg. 3:7; 6:10; 7:5; 8:2; 9:3,1; 13:2, where the cry is often for deliverance from enemies. Another word for "enemy," found chiefly in the poetical books, is tsar, or tsar, "distresser," "straitener" (Nu 10:9; Job 16:9; Ps 27:2,12, the Revised Version (British and American) "adversary," etc.); also tsarar (Es 3:10; Ps 8:2; 10:5 the King James Version, etc.). Other words are `ar, "one awake" (1Sa 28:16 the King James Version; Da 4:19 the King James Version); sane', perhaps, "to be sharp or bite" (Ex 1:10; Pr 25:21; 27:6); sharar, "to watch" (Ps 5:8; 27:11), and qum, "to stand up," or "withstand" (Ex 32:25).
In the New Testament echthros, "enemy," "opponent," is the only word translated "enemy" (Mt 5:43,14; Mr 12:36; Lu 1:71,74, etc.; Ro 5:10; 11:28, etc.), once with anthropos ("a man"), joined to echthros (Mt 13:28).
In the Revised Version (British and American) "adversary" is frequently substituted for "enemy" (Nu 24:8; De 32:41; Ps 6:7; 7:6; 44:10, etc.); for "O thou enemy," etc. (Ps 9:6) we have "The enemy are come to an end"; instead of "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him" (Isa 59:19) we have "For he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh driveth" (with the text of the King James Version in margins); for "The fire of thine enemies shall devour them" (Isa 26:11), "Fire shall devour thine adversaries" (text of the King James Version in the margin).
The frequent reference to enemies in the Old Testament is what we should expect to see in these early times on the part of a people settling in a land that had been occupied by other tribes, worshipping other gods. The spirit of their law was that expressed by our Lord in His Sermon on the Mount, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy." This He changed: "but I say unto you, Love your enemies." An approach toward this spirit had been made in the later prophets by their inclusion of the whole world under one God, who had a gracious purpose toward all, but the near statement of it we only find in Pr 25:21 (quoted by Paul, Ro 12:20). See also Ex 23:4, and compare 2Ki 6:22; 2Ch 28:15.
W. L. Walker
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 27 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → General scriptures concerning Ex 23:5; Job 31:29,30; Ps 35:1-28; Pr 24:17,18; 25:21,22; Mt 5:43-48; Lu 6:27-36; Ro 12:14,20
- → The wickedness of David's Ps 56:5; 57:4,6; 62:4; 69:4,9; 71:10; 102:8; 109:2-5; 129:1-3
- → His imprecations against
- See PRAYER, IMPRECATORY
- → Instances of forgiveness of
- → Jesus, of his persecutors Lu 23:34
- → Stephen, of his murderers Ac 7:60
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.