Fear God, 209

 ~ Old Testament Examples ~

God does not want His children living in fear.  “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:2-3).  However, God does want His children to have a proper respect and reverence for Him.  We are told in many places in Scripture to “fear God.”  

Old Testament Examples  ~  The following is not an exhaustive list of individuals who feared God – but rather a list of some of those individuals which the Scriptures clearly state “feared God.”   

Abraham ~ Genesis 22:12

Daniel ~ Daniel 10:10-12

Darius ~ Daniel 6:25-26

David ~ 2 Samuel 6:9; Psalm 119:120; 1 Chronicles 16:30

Ethiopians ~ 2 Chronicles 14:12-15

 

Hananiah ~ Nehemiah 7:1-2  

Hezekiah ~ Jeremiah 26:19

Isaiah ~ Isaiah 8:13                                          

Israel ~ Exodus 14:31, 20:20

Jacob ~ Genesis 28:17

 

Jehoshaphat ~ 2 Chronicles 19:4-7  

Job ~ Job 1:1

Jonah ~ Jonah 1:6-9

Joseph ~ Genesis 42:18

King Saul’s subjects ~ 1 Samuel 12:14,24 

 

King Solomon ~ Ecclesiastes 5:6-7; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Proverbs 3:7

Levi ~ Malachi 2:3-6

Moses ~ Exodus 3:6; Hebrews 12:18-21; Revelation 15:3-4; Leviticus 19:32, 25:17, 36, 43

Nehemiah ~ Nehemiah 5:9, 14-16  

Noah ~ Hebrews 11:7

 

Obadiah ~ 1 Kings 18:12

Ordinary people ~ 1 Samuel 11:7

Psalmist ~ Psalm 2:11

Pharaoh’s servants ~ Exodus 9:13-22           

Priests ~ 2 Kings 17:26-28   

 

Servants ~ 2 Kings 4:1

Women who are savvy ~ Proverbs 31:30

God, Himself ~ “‘Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid; be very desolate,’ says the Lord.  ‘For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns — broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:12-13).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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