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.
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?
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.
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.
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;
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
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.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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.
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.
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?
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.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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.
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.
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:
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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.
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.
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.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
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.
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.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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.
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.
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
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.
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.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
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.
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:
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.
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
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.
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.
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.
And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
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.
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.
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
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:
And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
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.
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.
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
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.
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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.
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.
Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.
And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.
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.
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.
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?
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:
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.
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
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.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
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.