Topic
Evil for Good
22 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- Genesis 44:4Nave INSTANCES OF — Joseph accuses his brothers of rendering
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
- Exodus 5:21Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Exodus 14:11Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
- Exodus 15:24Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
- Exodus 16:2Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
- Exodus 16:3Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole…
- Exodus 17:3Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
- Exodus 17:4Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites, to Moses
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
- 1 Samuel 19:1Nave INSTANCES OF — Saul returns, to David
And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
- 1 Samuel 19:4Nave INSTANCES OF — Saul returns, to David
¶ And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
- 1 Samuel 19:5Nave INSTANCES OF — Saul returns, to David
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
- 1 Samuel 19:10Nave INSTANCES OF — Saul returns, to David
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
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- 1 Samuel 25:21 Nave INSTANCES OF — Nabal returns, to David
- 2 Samuel 11:1–27 Nave INSTANCES OF — David, to Uriah
- 1 Kings 2:4 Nave INSTANCES OF — To Joab
- 1 Kings 2:5 Nave INSTANCES OF — To Joab
- 1 Kings 2:6 Nave INSTANCES OF — To Joab
- Psalms 7:4 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 7:5 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 35:12 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 109:5 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Proverbs 17:13 Nave General scriptures concerning
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Texts: 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.