Superstition General references
Acts 25:19
Instances of:
- Israelites, supposing that their defeat in battle with the Philistines was due to their not having brought with them the Ark of the Covenant
1 Samuel 4:3; 1 Samuel 4:11
- Philistines, refusing to tread the threshold of the temple of Dagon after the image of Dagon had repeatedly fallen
1 Samuel 5:5
- The belief of the Syrians concerning the help of the gods
1 Kings 20:23
- Jews, attributing their calamities to having ceased offering sacrifices to the queen of heaven
Jeremiah 44:19
- Nebuchadnezzar, supposing that the spirit of the gods was upon Daniel
Daniel 4:9
- The sailors who cast Jonah into the sea
Jonah 1:16
- The disciples, supposing they saw a spirit when Jesus came walking upon the sea
Matthew 14:26; Mark 6:50
- Herod, imagining that John the Baptist had risen from the dead
Mark 6:14; Mark 6:16
- The Gadarenes, on account of Jesus casting devils out of the Gadarene
Matthew 8:34
- The disciples who were frightened at the appearance of Peter
Acts 12:15
- The Ephesians, in their sorceries
Acts 19:19
- The people of the island of Melita, in imagining Paul to be a god
Acts 28:6
Idolatry; Sorcery