Afflictions of the Wicked, The
God is glorified in -- Ex 14:4; Eze 38:22,23. God holds in derision -- Ps 37:13; Pr 1:26,27. Are multiplied -- De 31:17; Job 20:12-18; Ps 32:10. Are continual -- Job 15:20; Ec 2:23; Isa 32:10. Are often sudden -- Ps 73:10; Pr 6:15; Isa 30:13; Re 18:10. Are often judicially sent -- Job 21:17; Ps 107:17; Jer 30:15. Are for examples to others -- Ps 64:7-9; Zep 3:6,7; 1Co 10:5-11; 2Pe 2:6. Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion -- Ex 9:30; Isa 9:13; Jer 2:30; Hag 2:17. Their persecution of saints, a cause of -- De 30:7; Ps 55:19; Zec 2:9; 2Th 1:6. Impenitence is a cause of -- Pr 1:30,31; Eze 24:13; Am 4:6-12; Zec 7:11,12; Re 2:21,22. Sometimes humble them -- 1Ki 21:27. Frequently harden -- Ne 9:28,29; Jer 5:3. Produce slavish fear -- Job 15:24; Ps 73:19; Jer 49:3,5. Saints should not be alarmed at -- Pr 3:25,26. Exemplified Pharaoh and the Egyptians. -- Ex 9:14,15; 14:24,25. Ahaziah. -- 2Ki 1:1-4. Gehazi. -- 2Ki 5:27. Jehoram. -- 2Ch 21:12-19. Uzziah. -- 2Ch 26:19-21. Ahaz, &c. -- 2Ch 28:5-8,22.