Bible Verses About Agency

Through Achazyah's visit to Yoram, God brought about his downfall. After he arrived, he accompanied Yoram against Yehu the son of Nimshi, whom ADONAI had anointed to cut off the house of Ach'av.

Arise, ADONAI, confront them! Bring them down! With your sword deliver me from the wicked,

with your hand, ADONAI, from human beings, from people whose portion in life is this world. You fill their stomachs with your treasure, their children will be satisfied too and will leave their wealth to their little ones.

"Oh Ashur, the rod expressing my anger! The club in their hands is my fury!

I am sending him against a hypocritical nation, ordering him to march against a people who enrage me, to take the spoil and the plunder and trample them down like mud in the street.

They come from a distant land, from beyond the horizon. It's ADONAI, with the weapons of his rage, to lay waste to all the earth.

"I will make you into a threshing-sledge, new, with sharp, pointed teeth, to thresh the mountains and crush them to dust, to reduce the hills to chaff.

The nation and kingdom that refuses to serve this N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel, that will not put their necks under the yoke of the king of Bavel, I will punish," says ADONAI "with sword, famine and plague, until I have put an end to them through him.

"[Bavel] you are my war club and weapons of war - with you I shatter nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;

with you I shatter horses and their riders; with you I shatter chariots and their drivers;

with you I shatter husbands and wives; with you I shatter old and young; with you I shatter young men and virgins;

with you I shatter shepherds and their flocks; with you I shatter farmers and their teams; with you I shatter governors and deputies.