Selected Healing–related Passages in the Old Testament
Genesis 20:17: God heals Abimelech. His wife and slave girls’ wombs
“opened” again.
Genesis 21:1–2: Sarah becomes pregnant at around ninety-one-years-old.
Genesis 25:21: The barren Rebekah becomes pregnant.
Genesis 29:30–31: Leah’s womb is opened.
Genesis 30:22–23: Rachel’s womb opened and she bears Joseph.
Exodus 4:6–7: Moses’ hand made leprous and restored.
Exodus 15:22–26: Water is cured and God makes the great statement.
Exodus 23:25–26: They will be exempt from many illnesses if they worship
the Lord.
Numbers 12:9–16: Miriam’s leprosy is healed.
Numbers 16:46–50: The plague is stopped.
Numbers 21:4–9: Israelites are healed from snakebites.
Deuteronomy 28:15–68: Failed health is a major part of the threat regarding
disobedience.
Deuteronomy 32:39: “I have wounded and I will heal.”
1 Samuel 6:3: The Philistines are offered healing if they return the ark.
1 King 13:1–6: Jeroboam’s hand withered and restored.
1 Kings 17:8–24: Widow’s son raised from dead.
2 Kings 2:19–22: Well water at Jericho healed.
2 Kings 4:8–36: Shunammite family blessed with a son (vv. 15–17), raised
from dead (vv. 32–35).
2 Kings 5:1–19: Naaman cleansed of leprosy.
2 King 6:8–23: Eyesight blinded and restored to Arameans.
2 Kings 13:21: Dead man comes to life in Elisha’s tomb.
2 Kings 20:1–11: God promises and Hezekiah is healed.
2 Chronicles 7:14: Conditions for forgiveness and healing of the land are
stated.
2 Chronicles 30:20: God heals at Hezekiah’s petition.
Job 5:18: “He injures, but his hands also heal.”
Psalm 30:2: “I called to you for help and you healed me.”
Psalm 103:2–3: “Praise the Lord . . . heals all your diseases.”
Psalm 105:37: “ . . . and from among their tribes no one faltered.”
Psalm 107:20: “He sent forth his word and healed them.”
Proverbs 12:18: “ . . . the tongue of the wise brings healing.”
Proverbs 13:17: “ . . . a trustworthy envoy brings healing.”
Proverbs 15:4: “The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life.”
Proverbs 16:24: “Pleasant words are…healing to the bones.”
Isaiah 19:22: After striking he will heal them; (Egypt).
Isaiah 33:24: No one in Zion will say “I am ill.”
Isaiah 35:5–6: Blind, deaf, lame, and mute are cured.
Isaiah 42:1, 7: God’s servant will open blind eyes.
Isaiah 53:5: “ . . . by his wounds we are healed.” (emphasis added)
Isaiah 57:18–19: “I will heal him . . . I will heal them.”
Isaiah 58:8: “ . . . your healing will quickly appear.”
Jeremiah 30:17: “I will restore you to health and heal your wounds.”
Jeremiah 33:6: “I will heal my people.”
Ezekiel 47:12: “ . . . their leaves (will be) for healing.”
Daniel 3:19–27: Fire does not burn Shadrach and friends.
Daniel 4:34: Nebuchadnezzar’s sanity is restored.
Hosea 6:1: “ . . . the Lord…he will heal us.”
Hosea 11:3: “ . . . it was I who healed them.”
Hosea 14:4: “I will heal their waywardness.”
Jonah 2:10: Jonah is preserved.
Malachi 4:2: “ . . . the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its
wings.”
