Lexicon :: Strong's H7489 - rāʿaʿ

He said, “Don’t do this evil, my brothers.

“Get out of the way! ” they said, adding, “This one came here as an alien, but he’s acting like a judge! Now we’ll do more harm to you than to them.” They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.

This was very distressing to[fn] Abraham because of his son.

“and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me.

What he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, so he put him to death also.

“Why have you caused me so much trouble? ” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man that you had another brother? ”

“Isn’t this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wrong! ’ ”

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake[fn] and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

So Moses went back to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? And why did you ever send me?

“Or if someone swears rashly to do what is good or evil ​— ​concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath ​— ​without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The LORD was very angry; Moses was also provoked.[fn]

Then Moses became angry and said to the LORD, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

“Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back.”

“Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.

“But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labor.

“The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,

“The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,

“If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after he has been good to you.”

The owner of the house went out and said to them, “Please don’t do this evil, my brothers. After all, this man has come into my house. Don’t commit this horrible outrage.

“I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has opposed[fn] me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ”

When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the LORD.

“However, if you continue to do what is evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

Saul was furious and resented this song. “They credited tens of thousands to David,” he complained, “but they only credited me with thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom? ”

“Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any males[fn] left by morning light.”

Saul responded, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”

David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this matter upset you because the sword devours all alike. Intensify your fight against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him.”

When the time of mourning ended, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. However, the LORD considered what David had done to be evil.

“Now get up! Go out and encourage[fn] your soldiers, for I swear by the LORD that if you don’t go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the trouble that has come to you from your youth until now! ”

“You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to anger me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung me behind your back.

Omri did what was evil in the LORD’s sight; he did more evil than all who were before him.

Then he cried out to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son? ”

“Since King Manasseh of Judah has committed all these detestable acts ​— ​worse evil than the Amorites who preceded him had done ​— ​and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin,

“Do not touch my anointed ones

or harm my prophets.”

This command was also evil in God’s sight, so he afflicted Israel.

David said to God, “Wasn’t I the one who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? LORD my God, please let your hand be against me and against my father’s family, but don’t let the plague be against your people.”

and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I[fn] not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire? ”

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to pursue the prosperity of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.

I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room.

Look, God does not reject a person of integrity,

and he will not support[fn] evildoers.

He shatters the mighty without an investigation

and sets others in their place.

“You will break them with an iron scepter;

you will shatter them like pottery.”

who despises the one rejected by the LORD[fn]

but honors those who fear the LORD,

who keeps his word whatever the cost,

For dogs have surrounded me;

a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;

they pierced[fn] my hands and my feet.

I hate a crowd of evildoers,

and I do not sit with the wicked.

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,

my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.