Friday, August 31, 2012

Examples of being angry


Esau against Jacob

Genesis 27:45

 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Jacob against Rachel

Genesis 30:2 

Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

Simeon and Levi against Shechem

Genesis 49:6-7 

6 Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

7 Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

Moses against Pharaoh

Exodus 11:8 

All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.

Moses against Israel

Exodus 32:19 

When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

David against rich man

2 Samuel 12:5 

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

Nebuchadnezzar against wise men

Daniel 2:12 

This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.

Jesus against hypocrites

Mark 3:5 

He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.



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