Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Enemy’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Enemy’ occurs 94 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, O Lord, has been magnified in strength. Your right hand, O Lord, has struck down the enemy.Exodus 15:6
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: ‘I will pursue and overtake them. I will divide the spoils. My soul will be filled. I will unsheathe my sword. My hand will put them to death.’Exodus 15:9
Exodus 23:4 If you come across an ox or a donkey of your enemy, which has gone astray, lead it back to him.Exodus 23:4
Exodus 23:22 But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.Exodus 23:22
Number of the word / term Enemy in Exodus: 4
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 26:35 in the land of the enemy, she will worship and rest in the Sabbath of her solitude, because she will not have rested in your Sabbaths, when you lived in her.Leviticus 26:35
Leviticus 26:38 You will perish among the Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you.Leviticus 26:38
Leviticus 26:44 And even after so much, when they were in the land of their enemy, I did not cast them off entirely, and I did not so despise them that they would be consumed, nor so that I would nullify my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.Leviticus 26:44
Number of the word / term Enemy in Leviticus: 3
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 35:21 or, while being his enemy, strikes him with his hand, and so he has died, the attacker shall be guilty of murder. The kinsman of the deceased, as soon as he finds him, shall cut his throat.Numbers 35:21
Number of the word / term Enemy in Numbers: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 4:42 so that anyone might flee to these if he has killed his neighbor unwillingly, who was not his enemy a day or two earlier, and so that he would be able to escape to one of these cities:Deuteronomy 4:42
Deuteronomy 28:48 You will serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send to you, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, and in destitution of all things. And he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has crushed you.Deuteronomy 28:48
Deuteronomy 28:53 And you will eat the fruit of your womb, and the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the Lord your God will give to you, due to the anguish and devastation with which your enemy will oppress you.Deuteronomy 28:53
Deuteronomy 28:57 and over the filth of the afterbirth, which goes forth from between her thighs, and over the children who are born in the same hour. For they will eat them secretly, due to the scarcity of all things during the siege and the devastation, with which your enemy will oppress you within your gates.Deuteronomy 28:57
Deuteronomy 33:27 His habitation is above, and the everlasting arms are below. He shall cast out the enemy before your face, and he shall say: ‘Be utterly broken!’Deuteronomy 33:27
Number of the word / term Enemy in Deuteronomy: 5
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 20:5 And if the avenger of blood will have pursued him, they shall not deliver him into his hands. For he struck down his neighbor unknowingly, one who was not proven to have been his enemy two or three days before.Joshua 20:5
Number of the word / term Enemy in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Judges
Judges 4:16 And Barak pursued the fleeing chariots, and the army, as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the entire multitude of the enemy was cut down, unto utter annihilation.Judges 4:16
Judges 7:11 And when you will hear what they are saying, then your hands will be strengthened, and you will descend more confidently to the camp of the enemy.” Therefore, he descended with his servant Purah into a portion of the camp, where there was a watch of armed men.Judges 7:11
Judges 16:23 And the leaders of the Philistines convened as one, so that they might offer great sacrifices to Dagon, their god. And they feasted, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy, Samson, into our hands.”Judges 16:23
Number of the word / term Enemy in Judges: 3
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 18:29 And Saul began to fear David all the more. And Saul became the enemy of David, every day.1 Samuel 18:29
1 Samuel 19:17 And Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me in this way, and released my enemy, so that he may flee?” And Michal responded to Saul, “Because he said to me, ‘Release me, otherwise I will kill you.’ ”1 Samuel 19:17
1 Samuel 24:4 And the servants of David said to him: “Behold the day, about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will deliver your enemy to you, so that you may do to him as it will be pleasing in your eyes.’ ” Then David rose up, and he quietly cut off the edge of Saul’s cloak.1 Samuel 24:4
1 Samuel 24:19 For who, when he will have found his enemy, will release him along a good path? So may the Lord repay you for this good turn, because you have acted on my behalf this day.1 Samuel 24:19
1 Samuel 26:8 And Abishai said to David: “God has enclosed your enemy this day in your hands. Now therefore, I will pierce him with my lance, through to the ground, once, and there will not need to be a second.”1 Samuel 26:8
Number of the word / term Enemy in 1 Samuel: 5
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron. And they said to the king: “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who was seeking your life. And so, the Lord has avenged my lord the king, this day, from Saul and from his offspring.”2 Samuel 4:8
2 Samuel 8:10 And so, Toi sent his son Joram to king David, so that he might greet him with congratulations, and give thanks, because he had fought against Hadadezer and had struck him down. For indeed, Toi was the enemy of Hadadezer. And in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver, and vessels of brass.2 Samuel 8:10
2 Samuel 22:18 He freed me from my most powerful enemy and from those who had hated me. For they were too strong for me.2 Samuel 22:18
Number of the word / term Enemy in 2 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 8:37 Then, if famine rises over the land, or pestilence, or corrupt air, or blight, or locust, or mildew, or if their enemy afflicts them, besieging the gates, or any harm or infirmity,1 Kings 8:37
Number of the word / term Enemy in 1 Kings: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 13:13 While he was speaking these things, Jeroboam set in motion an ambush behind them. And while they stood facing the enemy, without Judah realizing it, his army circled around.2 Chronicles 13:13
Number of the word / term Enemy in 2 Chronicles: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Ezra
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to petition the king for assistance and for horsemen, who would defend us from the enemy along the way. For we had said to the king: “The hand of our God is over all those who seek him in goodness. And his authority, and his strength and fury, is over all those who forsake him.”Ezra 8:22
Ezra 8:31 Therefore, we set out from the river Ahava, on the twelfth day of the first month, so that we might travel to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was over us, and he freed us from the hand of the enemy and of those who lay in ambush along the way.Ezra 8:31
Number of the word / term Enemy in Ezra: 2
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Esther
Esther 3:10 And so the king took the ring that he used, from his own hand, and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha, of Agag lineage, enemy of the Jews.Esther 3:10
Esther 7:4 For I and my people have been handed over to be crushed, to be slain, and to perish. And if we were only being sold as servants and slaves, the evil might be tolerable, and I would have mourned in silence. But now our enemy is one whose cruelty overflows upon the king.”Esther 7:4
Esther 7:6 And Esther said, “This is our most wicked enemy and foe: Haman!” Hearing this, Haman was suddenly dumbfounded, unable to bear the faces of the king and the queen.Esther 7:6
Esther 8:5 And she said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his eyes, and my request is not seen to be disagreeable to him, I beg you that the former letters of Haman, the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he instructed them to be destroyed in all the king’s provinces, may be corrected by new letters.Esther 8:5
Esther 9:6 so much so that even in Susa they executed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Haman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, and their names are these:Esther 9:6
Esther 9:24 For Haman, the son of Hammedatha of Agag lineage, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and to destroy them. And he had cast Pur, which in our language means the lot.Esther 9:24
Number of the word / term Enemy in Esther: 6
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Job
Job 6:23 or, “Free me from the hand of the enemy and rescue me from the hand of the strong?”Job 6:23
Job 16:9 He has gathered together his fury towards me, and, threatening me, he has roared against me with his teeth; my enemy has beheld me with terrible eyes.Job 16:9
Job 19:11 His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.Job 19:11
Job 27:7 Let the impious be as my enemy, and the sinful, as my adversary.Job 27:7
Job 33:10 Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.Job 33:10
Job 38:23 which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, for the day of the battle and the war?Job 38:23
Number of the word / term Enemy in Job: 6
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 7:5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and take hold of it, and trample my life into the earth, and drag down my glory into the dust.Psalm 7:5
Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.Psalm 8:2
Psalm 9:3 For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face.Psalm 9:3
Psalm 9:6 The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise.Psalm 9:6
Psalm 13:3 How long will my enemy be exalted over me?Psalm 13:3
Psalm 13:5 lest at any time my enemy may say, “I have prevailed against him.” Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.Psalm 13:5
Psalm 31:8 And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.Psalm 31:8
Psalm 55:12 For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.Psalm 55:12
Psalm 61:3 for you have been my hope, a tower of strength before the face of the enemy.Psalm 61:3
Psalm 64:1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.Psalm 64:1
Psalm 74:3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!Psalm 74:3
Psalm 74:10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?Psalm 74:10
Psalm 74:18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.Psalm 74:18
Psalm 78:61 And he delivered their virtue into captivity, and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.Psalm 78:61
Psalm 89:22 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.Psalm 89:22
Psalm 106:10 And he saved them from the hand of those who hated them. And he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.Psalm 106:10
Psalm 107:2 Let those who have been redeemed by the Lord say so: those whom he redeemed from the hand of the enemy and gathered from the regions,Psalm 107:2
Psalm 143:3 For the enemy has pursued my soul. He has lowered my life to the earth. He has stationed me in darkness, like the dead of ages past.Psalm 143:3
Number of the word / term Enemy in Psalm: 18
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 24:17 When your enemy will fall, do not be glad, and do not let your heart exult in his ruin,Proverbs 24:17
Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink.Proverbs 25:21
Proverbs 26:24 An enemy is known by his lips, though it is from his heart that he draws out deceit.Proverbs 26:24
Number of the word / term Enemy in Proverbs: 3
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 63:10 But they themselves provoked to wrath and afflicted his Holy Spirit, and he was turned to be for them like an enemy, and he himself went to war against them.Isaiah 63:10
Number of the word / term Enemy in Isaiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 6:25 Do not choose to go out into the fields, and you should not walk along the roadway. For the sword and the terror of the enemy is on every side.Jeremiah 6:25
Jeremiah 15:11 The Lord says: “Certainly, it will be well with your remnant. Certainly, I will run to meet you, in the time of affliction and in the time of tribulation, against the enemy.Jeremiah 15:11
Jeremiah 18:17 Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.”Jeremiah 18:17
Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you, and they will not seek you. For I have wounded you with the strike of an enemy, with a cruel chastisement. Your sins have become hardened because of the multitude of your iniquities.Jeremiah 30:14
Jeremiah 31:16 Thus says the Lord: “Let your voice cease from crying and your eyes from tears. For there is a reward for your work, says the Lord. And they will return from the land of the enemy.Jeremiah 31:16
Jeremiah 44:30 Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra, the king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who are seeking his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah, the king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, his enemy and the one who was seeking his life.”Jeremiah 44:30
Number of the word / term Enemy in Jeremiah: 6
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 1:7 ZAIN. Jerusalem has remembered the days of her affliction and the betrayal of all her desirable ones, whom she held from the days of antiquity, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and there was no one to be a helper. The enemies have looked upon her and mocked her Sabbaths.Lamentations 1:7
Lamentations 1:10 JOD. The enemy has sent his hand against all her desirable ones. For she has watched the Gentiles enter her sanctuary, even though you instructed that they should not enter into your church.Lamentations 1:10
Lamentations 1:16 AIN. For this I weep, and my eyes bring forth water. For the consoler has been far away from me, changing my soul. My sons have become lost, because the enemy has prevailed.Lamentations 1:16
Lamentations 2:3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.Lamentations 2:3
Lamentations 2:4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.Lamentations 2:4
Lamentations 2:5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.Lamentations 2:5
Lamentations 2:7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.Lamentations 2:7
Lamentations 2:17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.Lamentations 2:17
Lamentations 2:22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.Lamentations 2:22
Lamentations 4:12 LAMED. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, did not believe that the adversary and the enemy would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.Lamentations 4:12
Number of the word / term Enemy in Lamentations: 10
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 36:2 Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said about you: ‘It is well! The everlasting heights have been given to us as an inheritance!’Ezekiel 36:2
Number of the word / term Enemy in Ezekiel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 8:3 Israel has thrown away goodness; the enemy will overtake him.Hosea 8:3
Number of the word / term Enemy in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Micah
Micah 7:8 You, my enemy, should not rejoice over me because I have fallen. I will rise up, when I sit in darkness. The Lord is my light.Micah 7:8
Micah 7:10 And my enemy will look, and she will be covered with confusion, she who says to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her. Now she will be trampled under foot like the mud of the streets.Micah 7:10
Number of the word / term Enemy in Micah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 5:43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and you shall have hatred for your enemy.’Matthew 5:43
Matthew 13:25 But while the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds amid the wheat, and then went away.Matthew 13:25
Matthew 13:28 And he said to them, ‘A man who is an enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Is it your will that we should go and gather them up?’Matthew 13:28
Matthew 13:39 So the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And truly, the harvest is the consummation of the age; while the reapers are the Angels.Matthew 13:39
Number of the word / term Enemy in Matthew: 4
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Luke
Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.Luke 10:19
Number of the word / term Enemy in Luke: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Acts
Acts 13:10 and he said: “So full of every deceit and of all falsehoods, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, you never cease to subvert the righteous ways of the Lord!Acts 13:10
Number of the word / term Enemy in Acts: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Romans
Romans 12:20 So if an enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap burning coals upon his head.Romans 12:20
Number of the word / term Enemy in Romans: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 15:26 Lastly, the enemy called death shall be destroyed. For he has subjected all things under his feet. And although he says,1 Corinthians 15:26
Number of the word / term Enemy in 1 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book Galatians
Galatians 4:16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?Galatians 4:16
Number of the word / term Enemy in Galatians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book 2 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians 3:15 But do not be willing to consider him as an enemy; instead, correct him as a brother.2 Thessalonians 3:15
Number of the word / term Enemy in 2 Thessalonians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Enemy’ in the book James
James 4:4 You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.James 4:4
Number of the word / term ‘Enemy’ in James: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 94
