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  • noun Plural form of threatening.

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Examples

  • There is persecution in threatenings (ch.iv. 17, 21); they terrify and break the spirit: and though we say, Threatened folks live long, yet those whom Saul threatened, if he prevailed not thereby to frighten them from Christ, he slew them, he persecuted them to death, ch. xxii.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • But he had been threatened with great calamities upon himself and his house, and it is apparently to the execution of these threatenings, which issued in his death, that an anticipatory reference is here made.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • That sets God's justice at defiance: "The days are prolonged and every vision fails; the threatenings are a jest."

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Every thing should be measured and named by its end, so, call threatenings promises, call rods and judgments mercies, name all good, and good to you, if so be you understand the purpose of God in these.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Jews that were left to remain in the land after their brethren were carried away, and it is a very melancholy story; for, though at first there were some hopeful prospects of their well-doing, they soon appeared as obstinate in sin as ever, unhumbled and unreformed, till, all the rest of the judgments threatened in Deut.xxviii. being brought upon them, that which in the last verse of that dreadful chapter completes the threatenings was accomplished, "The Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again."

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • "threatenings" which he always considered himself at liberty to launch at those who, in his own language, "withstood the truth": but we could have wished that Knox had been more magnanimous, and could have forgotten the offence after the passage of years.

    Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

  • He made it a point to identify all of them, receiving, while he did so, scowls and mutterings, and reciprocating with cocky bullyings and threatenings.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • Noble ideals inspire noble behavior: a gracious god incarnate who offers stern threatenings and great comforts, who says, "Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me," is an ideal from which a Christian can readily work to improve social conditions or do anything else worth doing.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Noble ideals inspire noble behavior: a gracious god incarnate who offers stern threatenings and great comforts, who says, "Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me," is an ideal from which a Christian can readily work to improve social conditions or do anything else worth doing.

    Sheldonism 2008

  • Then of course they all became excited again, more so than before, even, for they thought I was trying to practice a ruse, and I question whether I should have lived to recount the adventure had not an officer belonging to the King's headquarters been passing by just then, when, hearing the threatenings and imprecations, he rode up to learn the cause of the hubbub, and immediately recognized and released me.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

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