Heart : Zeal

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his Zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

And he said, Come with me, and see my Zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the Zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

For the Zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

My Zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The Zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the Zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

• FIGURATIVE
• Breastplate
• Salvation

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with Zeal as a cloke.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy Zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my Zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The Zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

For I bear them record that they have a Zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what Zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your Zeal hath provoked very many.

• Bigotry

Concerning Zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

For I bear him record, that he hath a great Zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.