Demons

How Nave’s arranged it

• Worship ofLeviticus 17:7Deuteronomy 32:172 Chronicles 11:15Psalms 106:37Matthew 4:9Luke 4:71 Corinthians 10:201 Corinthians 10:211 Timothy 4:1Revelation 13:4
• Worship of, forbiddenLeviticus 17:7Zechariah 13:2Revelation 9:20
• Possession by, instances of
• Saul1 Samuel 16:14–231 Samuel 18:101 Samuel 18:111 Samuel 19:91 Samuel 19:10
• Two men of the Gergesenes (Gadarenes, Gerasenes)Matthew 8:28–34Mark 5:2–20
• The deaf manMatthew 9:32Matthew 9:33
• The deaf and blind manMatthew 12:22Luke 11:14
• The daughter of the Syrophoenician womanMatthew 15:22–29Mark 7:25–30
• The epileptic boyMatthew 17:14–18Mark 9:17–27Luke 9:37–42
• The man in the synagogueMark 1:23–26Luke 4:33–35
• Mary MagdaleneMark 16:9Luke 8:2Luke 8:3
• The herd of swineMatthew 8:30–32

The passages, in Bible order (68)

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. Leviticus 17:7

   They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

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   “And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils,.... As it seems they had done, which was monstrously shocking, and especially by a people that had the knowledge of the true God.

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2. Deuteronomy 32:17

   They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

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   “They sacrificed to devils, not to God,....

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3. Judges 9:23

   God sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully,

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   “Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem,....

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4. 1 Samuel 16:14–23

   After the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.

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   “Therefore, when a person falls from the Spirit for any wickedness, if he repents after his fall, the grace remains irrevocably to the one who is willing; otherwise he who has fallen is no longer in God (because that Holy Spirit and Paraclete which is in God has deserted him), but this sinner shall be in him to whom he has subjected himself, as took place in Saul's instance; for the Spirit of God departed from him and an evil spirit was afflicting him.

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5. 1 Samuel 18:10

   The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,

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   “Saul was holding a spear, etc. The people of the Jews held the power of the kingdom and exercised it against the Lord Savior; thinking that they could extinguish His faith and glory by persecuting Him, in the manner of other mortals whose praise and …

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6. 1 Samuel 18:11

   and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

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   “And David turned away from his face a second time. And Christ fled from the hearts of the impious, who never deserts pious hearts without resting in them. But it is not added in vain a second time. For at first David went away and …

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7. 1 Samuel 19:9

   But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 19:91 voice

   “Now it is certainly obvious what the sequence is looking to through the figures of the story. The one of David is predicted by means of David, and the one who was anointed signifies the Christ.

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8. 1 Samuel 19:10

   Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.

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   “And Saul attempted to pin David with a spear, etc. The Jews attempted to kill entirely in the flesh of Christ, who is God both soul and flesh. But he, commending his spirit into the hands of the Father, bowed his head and gave it …

   “Now it is certainly obvious what the sequence is looking to through the figures of the story. The one of David is predicted by means of David, and the one who was anointed signifies the Christ.

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9. 1 Kings 22:21–23

   Then a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ‘By what means?’ asked the LORD.

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   “I think every evil and deceitful spirit is a lie, and whenever anyone of these speaks, it speaks from its own resources and by no means from the resources of God. And the father of these [spirits] is the liar, the devil. We will now present what moved us to say that every inferior spirit is false.

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10. 2 Chronicles 11:15

    And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

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    “And he ordained him priests for the high places,....

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11. Psalms 106:37

    They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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    “Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. Who have their name here given them from a word that signifies to waste and destroy, they being the destroyers of mankind. So the Targum renders it by מזיקיא, which signifies spirits noxious and hurtful; but R. Elias Levita, in his Tishbi, p. 233, says it is a mistake to derive it from the root which signifies to waste and destroy; for then he says the "daleth" should have a "dagesh"; but does not tell us from whence it is derived.

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12. Zechariah 13:2

    And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

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    “(V2.) And it shall be in that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will destroy the names of the idols from the land, and they shall be remembered no more; and I will also remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. LXX: And it shall be in that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will destroy the names of the idols from the land, and their memory shall no longer exist; and the false prophets and the unclean spirit I will remove from the land.

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13. Matthew 4:9

    “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

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    “(in Luc. c. iv. 11.) Ambition has its dangers at home; that it may govern, it is first others' slave; it bows in flattery that it may rule in honour; and while it would be exalted, it is made to stoop.

    “(Verse 9) I will give you all these things if you fall down and worship me. Even in this boasting, the arrogant and proud one speaks: not because he has power over the whole world or can give all the kingdoms, since we know that many holy men have been made kings by God. If you fall down, he says, and worship me. Therefore, whoever is going to worship the devil, falls before him.

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14. Matthew 4:24

    News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.

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    “(Verse 24) And he healed the lunatics and the paralytics. And many crowds followed him from Galilee and Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. Not truly lunatics, but those who were thought to be lunatics due to the deceit of demons, who, by observing the phases of the moon, desired to defame creation so as to overflow with blasphemies against the Creator.

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15. Matthew 8:16

    When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Jesus, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.

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    “(Vers. 16-18.) But when evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases." And seeing great crowds around him, Jesus gave orders to go to the other side.

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16. Matthew 8:28–34

    When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, He was met by two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

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    “The divine nature of the only begotten Son was already scorching the demons in unspeakable flames. Christ was shutting up the fiercest demons in blocked roads. He was undoing the devil's tyranny. "You have come before the time," they cried out. For they knew from the Scriptures that Christ was going to come and would judge them. Treating the incarnation as if it had happened at the wrong time, they pled that he had come in an untimely way. This misrepresentation is not surprising. In their deceptiveness, they did not hesitate to say even this.

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