Psalms 118:18

The Lord disciplined him severely but did not hand him over to death. It matters because God's chastening is purposeful, never destroying his own.

Cross-references · 13

• 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
• Job 5:17–18“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
• 2 Cor 6:9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
• Prov 3:11–12My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
• Ps 94:12–13Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
• 2 Cor 1:9–11Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
• Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
• Ps 66:10–12For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
• Job 33:16–30Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
• Heb 12:10–11For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
• 2 Sam 13:1–39After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
• 2 Sam 12:10Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
• 2 Sam 16:1–23When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

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