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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 2:2, 3, 19

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished. / And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 6:6

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 9:16

And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 11:5, 7

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. / Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 18:17–19, 21, 33

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? / Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed. / For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 19:29

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 22:12

“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 28:13

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Genesis 35:13

Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Exodus 2:24

So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Exodus 3:8

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Exodus 14:24

At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Exodus 32:14

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Numbers 11:25

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Judges 2:18

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures 1 Samuel 15:35

And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures 2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures 1 Chronicles 21:15

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 31:2

Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 33:6

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 35:1–3

Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me. / Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid. / Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 36:7

How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 57:1

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 68:17

The chariots of God are tens of thousands—thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 94:9

He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Psalm 121:4

Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Ezekiel 1:24, 28

When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. / The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures 1 Peter 3:12

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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