Acts 13:11

Paul declares the Lord's hand is against Elymas, who is struck blind; he gropes for a guide. The judgment validates the gospel and may invite repentance.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
• Exod 9:3behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
• 1 Sam 5:11They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
• Heb 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Job 19:21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
• John 9:39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
• Acts 9:17Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
• 1 Sam 5:6–7But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
• 1 Sam 5:9It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great so that tumors broke out on them.
• Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
• Ps 38:2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
• Gen 19:11They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
• Acts 9:8–9Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
• 2 Kgs 6:8Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
• Rom 11:7–10What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
• Ps 39:10–11Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
• Isa 29:10For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

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