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Bible Verses About Diseases

21 verses · 53 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And the Spirit of Jehovah turned aside from Saul, and a spirit of sadness from Jehovah terrified him;

  2. and the servants of Saul say unto him, `Lo, we pray thee, a spirit of sadness from God is terrifying thee;

  3. let our lord command, we pray thee, thy servants before thee, they seek a skilful man, playing on a harp, and it hath come to pass, in the spirit of sadness from God being upon thee, that he hath played with his hand, and it is well with thee.'

  4. And the lad groweth, and the day cometh that he goeth out unto his father, unto the reapers,

  5. and he saith unto his father, `My head, my head;' and he saith unto the young man, `Bear him unto his mother;'

  6. and he beareth him, and bringeth him in unto his mother, and he sitteth on her knees till the noon, and dieth.

  7. In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'

  8. And he turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,

  9. `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth--a great weeping.

  10. And there cometh in unto him a writing from Elijah the prophet, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, Because that thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, and in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

  11. and thou dost walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and dost cause Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit whoredom like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also thy brethren, the house of thy father, who are better than thyself, thou hast slain;

  12. lo, Jehovah is smiting--a great smiting--among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods--

  13. and thou, with many sicknesses, with disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels come out, by the sickness, day by day.'

  14. And Jehovah waketh up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who are beside the Cushim,

  15. and they come up into Judah, and rend it, and take captive all the substance that is found at the house of the king, and also his sons, and his wives, and there hath not been left to him a son except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

  16. And after all this hath Jehovah plagued him in his bowels by a disease for which there is no healing,

  17. and it cometh to pass, from days to days, and at the time of the going out of the end of two years, his bowels have gone out with his sickness, and he dieth of sore diseases, and his people have not made for him a burning like the burning of his fathers.

  18. And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

  19. And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.

  20. And his wife saith to him, `Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

  21. And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.