Bible Verses About Anger

"Shim'on and Levi are brothers, related by weapons of violence.

Let me not enter their council, let my honor not be connected with their people; for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they maimed cattle.

Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce; their fury, for it has been cruel. I will divide them in Ya'akov and scatter them in Isra'el.

ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon,

"Separate yourselves from this assembly; I'm going to destroy them right now!"

With Isra'el thus joined to Ba'al-P'or, the anger of ADONAI blazed up against Isra'el.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them facing the sun before ADONAI, so that the raging fury of ADONAI will turn away from Isra'el."

ADONAI's anger blazed up on that day; and he swore,

'None of the people aged twenty or more who came out of Egypt will see the land I swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov; because they haven't followed me unreservedly -

You are not to follow other gods, chosen from the gods of the peoples around you;

because ADONAI, your God, who is here with you, is a jealous God. If you do, the anger of ADONAI your God will flare up against you and he will destroy you from the face of the earth.

Moreover, ADONAI said to me, 'I have seen this people, and what a stiffnecked people they are!

Let me alone, so that I can put an end to them and blot out their name from under heaven! I will make out of you a nation bigger and stronger than they.'

Then I fell down before ADONAI, as I had the first time, for forty days and nights, during which time I neither ate food nor drank water, all because of the sin you committed by doing what was evil in the sight of ADONAI and thus provoking him.

I was terrified that because of how angry ADONAI was at you, of how heatedly displeased he was, that he would destroy you. But ADONAI listened to me that time too.

In addition, ADONAI was very angry with Aharon and would have destroyed him; but I prayed for Aharon also at the same time.

They aroused my jealousy with a non-god and provoked me with their vanities; I will arouse their jealousy with a non-people and provoke them with a vile nation.

"'For my anger has been fired up. It burns to the depths of Sh'ol, devouring the earth and its crops, kindling the very roots of the hills.

"Then the earth quaked and shook, the foundations of heaven trembled. They were shaken because he was angry.

Smoke arose in his nostrils; and from his mouth, devouring fire, with coals blazing from it.

"I raised you up out of the dust and made you prince over my people Isra'el. But you have lived in the same way as Yarov'am and caused my people Isra'el to sin, so that their sinning has made me angry.

Therefore I will sweep away Ba'sha and his house completely; I will make your house like the house of Yarov'am the son of N'vat.

If someone from the line of Ba'sha dies in the city, the dogs will eat him; if he dies in the countryside, the vultures will eat him."

Other activities of Ba'sha, his accomplishments and his power are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Isra'el.

Ba'sha slept with his ancestors, and Elah his son became king in his place.