98 Bible Verses About Divine Provision

To contemplate the divine provision revealed within Holy Writ is to engage not merely with doctrine, but with the very heart of our existence. Scripture unveils the profound reality of God's ceaseless care, a wellspring of grace sustaining every facet of life. Studying these sacred passages anchors the soul in the absolute assurance of His benevolent will, illuminating the path and fostering a deep, abiding trust that transcends worldly anxieties. Understanding this truth through His word transforms our perspective, enabling us to rest securely in the knowledge of His unwavering support for body and spirit.

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And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

Unpacking Divine Provision in Bible Verses

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Genesis 22:13KJV

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Genesis 22:7KJV

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:11KJV

And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

Judges 6:4KJV

And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;

Judges 6:9KJV

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Genesis 30:18KJV

I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

Genesis 30:32KJV

Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Genesis 31:9KJV

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Genesis 1:29KJV

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9KJV

And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Genesis 15:2KJV

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

Genesis 21:19KJV

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

Genesis 2:13KJV

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

Genesis 21:30KJV

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.

Genesis 24:27KJV

And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:

Genesis 24:40KJV

And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

Genesis 30:11KJV

And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Genesis 15:14KJV

Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16:14KJV

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

Genesis 26:32KJV

For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Genesis 31:16KJV

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Genesis 36:7KJV

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

Genesis 41:29KJV

And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Genesis 46:5KJV

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Genesis 47:11KJV

Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

Genesis 49:20KJV

And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:6KJV

And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

Exodus 12:36KJV

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

Exodus 12:45KJV

And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

Exodus 13:5KJV

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

Exodus 16:15KJV

And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

Exodus 16:24KJV

And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field.

Exodus 16:25KJV

And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord:

Exodus 29:23KJV

And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Exodus 29:32KJV

And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

Exodus 30:24KJV

The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,

Exodus 35:13KJV

And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

Exodus 36:19KJV

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

Exodus 38:3KJV

And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

Exodus 38:27KJV

And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

Leviticus 2:10KJV

And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.

Leviticus 7:10KJV

And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.

Leviticus 7:9KJV

He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

Leviticus 7:33KJV

And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:25KJV

But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.

Leviticus 20:24KJV

And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

Leviticus 22:7KJV

He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Leviticus 21:22KJV

For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Leviticus 25:12KJV

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Leviticus 25:21KJV

And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

Leviticus 25:54KJV

And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

Leviticus 27:15KJV

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

Leviticus 27:17KJV

And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

Numbers 3:48KJV

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

Numbers 3:49KJV

And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:

Numbers 4:7KJV

And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

Numbers 5:10KJV

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 7:8KJV

The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.

Numbers 7:86KJV

But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

Numbers 11:6KJV

Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

Numbers 18:14KJV

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

Numbers 18:20KJV

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

Deuteronomy 2:35KJV

But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

Deuteronomy 3:7KJV

The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.

Deuteronomy 2:12KJV

And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.

Deuteronomy 3:13KJV

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deuteronomy 8:3KJV

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

Deuteronomy 16:7KJV

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26:15KJV

Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:40KJV

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

Deuteronomy 32:34KJV

They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

Deuteronomy 33:19KJV

Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.

Joshua 13:14KJV

Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

Joshua 17:6KJV

And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

Joshua 18:2KJV

Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.

Joshua 21:24KJV

And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.

Joshua 21:3KJV

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Joshua 21:20KJV

All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

Joshua 21:41KJV

But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

Judges 13:23KJV

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

1 Samuel 2:5KJV

And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

1 Samuel 2:14KJV

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord. And they went unto their own home.

1 Samuel 2:20KJV

So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1 Samuel 21:6KJV

And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 30:12KJV

And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

1 Samuel 30:20KJV

And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

2 Samuel 8:8KJV

So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.

2 Samuel 9:13KJV

And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

2 Samuel 24:3KJV

The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:

1 Kings 4:13KJV

It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

1 Kings 7:25KJV

And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

1 Kings 7:44KJV

And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

1 Kings 7:50KJV

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kings 9:28KJV

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

1 Kings 17:7KJV

And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

1 Kings 17:15KJV

And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

1 Kings 18:2KJV

And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

1 Kings 18:41KJV

These sacred passages reveal not merely isolated acts of sustenance, but the pervasive, underlying reality of a universe sustained by divine love and order. They witness to a solicitude far exceeding simple material support, touching the deepest needs of soul and spirit. To contemplate these truths is to confront the essential posture of trust, the quiet relinquishing of anxious striving in favor of reliance upon the One whose knowledge is perfect, whose power is infinite, and whose faithfulness endures through all generations. The recognition of this perpetual provision liberates the heart from undue care, fostering that interior peace which is the fruit of a life lived in conscious dependence upon God. Let us therefore rest, not in indolence, but in the calm assurance that He who clothes the lilies and feeds the sparrows orchestrates the details of our existence with an eye toward our ultimate good and the fulfillment of His sovereign purpose.