Hamas in the Bible

Hamas of the Bible

Did you know Hamas is in the Bible? Well it is...in multiple places that reflect its meaning. “Hamas,” which translates literally as “zeal,” is an Arabic acronym for the “Islamic resistance movement.” The group was founded in 1987, in Gaza, as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a prominent Sunni group based in Egypt (1). Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement". This acronym, HMS, was later glossed in the 1988 Hamas Covenant [94] by the Arabic word ḥamās (حماس) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery" (2).

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Hebrew Strong's definition of Hamas: (Basically Hamas means violence) h2555 ָח ָמס ḥâmâs; from 2554; violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain: — cruel(-ty), damage, false, injus@ce, x oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Biblically hamas=violence is associated with the following:
Associated with Societal degeneration

Gen 6:11,13: the earth was filled with violence before the flood’
Jer 6:7 As a fountain wells up with water, so she wells up with her wickedness. Violence and plundering are heard in her. Before Me continually are grief and wounds.
Ps 55:9. Destroy, O Lord and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Ps 74:20. Have respect to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Ezek 7:11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness
Ezk 7:23 Make a chain, for the land is filled with crimes of blood. The city is full of violence
Amos 3:10. For they do not know to do right,' Says the LORD, 'Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.'"
Mic 6:12. For her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants have spoken lies.

Associated with Animosity and generational division

Gen 16:5. Animosity between Ishmael and future sons of Abraham began, “My wrong (Sarai speaking) be upon you! I gave my made into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes.”
Mal 2:16. For the Lord God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one’s garment with violence.

Associated with deception

Pro 26:6. He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
Is 53:8-9. (About Jesus) For the transgressions of My people He was stricken, and they made His grave with the wicked. But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Zeph 1:9 In that day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s houses with violence and deceit.

Associated with war

Ps 140:1-2 Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; Preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their hearts; they continually gather together for war.
Hab 1:9. They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind
Hab 2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men's blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
Hab 2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid, Because of men's blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.

Associated with crime

Judges 9:22 After Abimelech had reigned over Israel three years, God sent a spirit of ill will between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, that the crime done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be settled and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brothers.
Pro 4:16. For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Associated with false witness or spoken words:

Exodus 23:1 You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Deut 19:16. If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
Ps 27:12. Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; for false witness have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence.
Ps 35:11 Fierce witnesses rise up; they ask me things that I do not know.
Ps 140:1 Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; Preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their hearts; they continually gather together for war. They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips.
Ps 140:11 Let not the slanderer be established in the earth; let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Pro 10:6. Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Pr 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked
Pr 13:2. A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence
Pro 26:6 He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence

Associated with hatred

Ps 25:19. Consider my enemies, for they are many. And they hate me with cruel hatred.
Ps 35:11 Fierce witnesses rise up; they ask me things that I do not know.
Ps 140:1-2 Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; Preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their hearts.
Ps 140:4. Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to make my steps stumble.

Associated with strife

Ps 55:9-11 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go around it on its walls; Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it. Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets.
Zeph 1:9. In the same day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
Ps 140:4. Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to make my steps stumble
Hab 1:3 Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there is strife and contention arises.

Associated with a critical spirit:

Ps 58:1-2 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men? No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Associated with jealousy

Pro 3:31. Do not envy the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Ezek 28:16 By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, and you sinned.

Associated with God’s judgment

Ezek 7:11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness
Joel 3:19 Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Jer 20:8. For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, "Violence and plunder!"
Jer 51:35. Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon
Jer 51:46-47 A rumor will come, And violence in the land, Ruler against ruler), Therefore behold, the days are coming that I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Ezek 8:17. And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence;then they have returned to provoke Me to anger.
Ezek 12:19-20. because of the violence of all those who dwell in it. Then the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD."'"
Joel 3:19. "Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wilderness, Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Amos 6:3 Woe to you who put off the day of doom, who cause the seat of violence to come near.
Obad. 1:10. For violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you and you shall be cut off forever.

Associated with the end time narrative

Jer 6:7 As a fountain wells up with water, So she wells up with her wickedness. Violence and plundering are heard in her. Before Me continually are grief and wounds.

GOD’S HELP:
It is God who saves us

2 Sam 22:3. My Savior, You save me from violence
2 Sam 22:49. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.
Ps 18:48. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; you have delivered me from the violentman.
Ps 72:12-14. For He will deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and him who has no helper. He will spare the poor and needy, And will save the souls of the needy. He will redeem their life from oppression and violence; And precious shall be their blood in His sight.
Ps 140:4. Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to make my steps stumble.
Ezek 45:9 "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.

Framework and Call for Repentance

Jon 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
Hab 1:2. O Lord how long shall I cry, and You will not hear? Even cry out to You, “Violence!” and you will not save.

Exhortations:

Ps 11:5. The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
Jer 22:3. Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself," says the LORD, "that this house shall become a desolation."'"
Ezek 45:9. Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.

When delivered from violence, there is peace and healing!

(1) https://theconversation.com/hamas-and-hezbollah-how-they-are-different-and-why-they-might-cooperate-against-israel-215737
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas