Blindness

How Nave’s arranged it

• Disqualified for priestly officeLeviticus 21:18
• Of animals, disqualified for a sacrificeLeviticus 22:22Deuteronomy 15:21Malachi 1:8
• Miraculously inflicted upon the SodomitesGenesis 19:11
• Syrians2 Kings 6:18–23
• Saul of TarsusActs 9:8Acts 9:9
• ElymasActs 13:11
• Sent as a judgmentDeuteronomy 28:28
• Miraculous healing ofMatthew 9:27–30Matthew 11:5Matthew 12:22Matthew 21:14
• The miraculous healing of BartimaeusMatthew 20:30–34Mark 10:46–52
• The miraculous healing of a man of BethsaidaMark 8:22–25
• The miraculous healing of a man born blindJohn 9:1–7
• INSTANCES OF

The passages, in Bible order (207)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 19:11

   And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

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   “And behold, the men reached out their hands and brought Lot to them and closed the door, and they struck with blindness those who were outside, from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door. And the rest is up …

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2. Genesis 27:1

   When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

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   “And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old,....

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3. Genesis 48:10

   Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

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   “Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,....

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4. Exodus 5:2

   But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

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   “And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord,....

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5. Leviticus 21:18

   No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

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   “For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish,....

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6. Leviticus 22:22

   You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 22:221 voice

   “Blind, or broken, or maimed,.... Which is "blind" of one eye, or both: and so the Egyptians, as they would not sacrifice any of their oxen that had any blemishes on them, and were of a different colour, or changed in their form, so likewise such that were deprived of either of their eyes (x).

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7. Numbers 16:1

   Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

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   “Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi,....

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8. Numbers 17:1

   And the LORD said to Moses,

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   “And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the plague ceased, for the further confirmation of the priesthood in Aaron's family, another method is directed to by the Lord: saying: as follows.

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9. Deuteronomy 15:21

   But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

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   “And if there be any blemish therein,.... In the firstling, as if it be "lame or blind", or have any ill blemish: thou shall not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God; blemishes in any beast made it unfit for sacrifices which were required; and so all peace offerings, vows, and freewill offerings, were to be free from any, Lev 22:19, such were not fit for an holy sacrifice or an holy feast.

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10. Deuteronomy 28:28

    The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

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    “The Lord shall smite thee with madness,.... At the calamities befallen them, and through the force of diseases on them: and blindness; not of body, but of mind; with judicial blindness and hardness of heart: and astonishment of heart; at the miserable condition they and their families should be in.

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11. Deuteronomy 29:4

    Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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12. Deuteronomy 32:28

    Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

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13. Deuteronomy 32:29

    If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

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14. Judges 16:20

    Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

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    “And she said, the Philistines be upon thee, Samson,....

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15. 1 Samuel 4:15

    Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.

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    “17. For his old age would have been perfect if he had completed the full number of one hundred years in living. Since two years are seen to be lacking from this number, what else does this signify except that he would have been of perfect maturity if he had recognized the twofold mystery in the incarnation of our Redeemer, namely true divinity in his humanity and true humanity in his divinity? But now, because he rightly understands much from the old law and very many things from the heavenly commandments, he is ninety-eight years old.

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16. 1 Kings 14:4

    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

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    “And Jeroboam's wife did so, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Abijah,....

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