The most prominent prophet in the Bible who disobeyed God by running away from a direct command to preach repentance in Nineveh is Jonah, who tried to flee to Tarshish, leading to a great storm and being swallowed by a big fish, though he eventually obeyed, showing how God works through failure. Other figures, like King Saul and Solomon, also disobeyed God, but Jonah is known specifically as a prophet who directly defied God's call to ministry.
Adam and Eve were disobedient in the Garden of Eden, and their disobedience to God and to His commandments brought sin and sorrow into the whole world. Jesus was always obedient to God, and God said He was well pleased with Him.
Jonah was driven by his feelings. He didn't want to go to Nineveh, and he didn't want to see the city saved. He responded to God's call with his feelings, not with his faith in God.
3He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God]. 4For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not completely devoted to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
Saul's decision to disobey was influenced by his desire to please others rather than the Lord because he feared the judgments of men (see Robert D. Hales, “Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 26). Saul gave in to the temptation to be popular rather than obeying the word of God.
Disobedience (1 Chronicles 10:13) Saul did not keep the Word of the Lord. God gave him orders and he did not obey. Disobedience is a very serious sin.
In Samuel 15:11, God says to Samuel, “I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following me and has not carried out my instructions” (CSB) and later in 15:35 it says, “the Lord regretted he had made Saul king over Israel” (CSB).
Judaism. King Solomon sinned by acquiring many foreign wives and horses because he thought he knew the reason for the biblical prohibition and thought it did not apply to him.
Joshua 24:14–15 Reminds Us to Serve God
And then for us to pray that God would save us from idols in our country. We must decide if we will serve God or ourselves. Let's do that. God, we start this prayer by saying you alone are God.
So the first thing He says to Solomon, walk before Me. Then the second thing He says, do. Walk in the integrity of heart like your father did, do all of those things, and observe My laws and decrees and it will be okay. He's really calling Solomon back to get a handle on the fact that he is drifting away.
Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me", but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going to Jaffa (sometimes transliterated as Joppa or Joppe).
As the first son of Israel's greatest king and heir apparent to the throne, Amnon could have accomplished great things for God and his people. Sadly, Amnon is relegated to the “Where did they end up?” file of Bible characters because he lacked self-discipline.
Instead of following God's direction, Jonah runs the opposite direction because he would rather see Ninevah destroyed than restored. Jonah was the one who was angry that God would show mercy to such a wicked city, and he overlooked the fact that God has been merciful to him.
Adam and Eve's act of rebellion was not a simple slip, but a declaration that they wanted to rely on themselves and not on God. Instead of living in the faith relationship first given to them by their creator, they desired to put themselves in God's place.
This punishment came, as you note in your question, later—at the Meribah incident, where Moses and Aaron defiantly disobeyed God by striking the rock two times instead of speaking to the rock to obtain water. Perhaps by then God had had enough of Aaron's disobedience, unbelief, and compromise along the way.
In the Bible, it's not just Thomas who doubted. Think about it: Everyone did! Adam, Eve, Abraham, Sarah, Moses, David, Elijah, John the Baptist, and the list goes on.
That seems to be a very common way of taking this verse. The holy things and the pearls represent the things of God, perhaps the gospel itself. The dogs and pigs represent hostile, unworthy people. And so the statement translates into something like this: Do not preach the things of God to hostile, unworthy people.
A few texts in Joshua do speak of an accomplished and total conquest of all of Canaan (Joshua 11:23). Other assessments, however, have a disappointed God complaining to Joshua that “very much of the land remains to be possessed” (Joshua 13:1).
The story of Achan gives us a powerful picture of how one man's sin can affect everyone around him. It shows us the terrible punishment for sin (death) and how God's enemies are overcome, as well as the high cost of being tainted by sin. And it points forward to the glorious hope of seeing sin dealt with on the cross.
Pride is known as hubris (from the Ancient Greek ὕβρις) or futility; it is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins—the most demonic—on almost every list. Pride is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Pride is viewed as the opposite of humility.
Historical Narrations Mention a Much Higher Number
But Al-Hafidh ibn Hajar narrated in his story of Sulayman (peace be upon him) in Al-Bidayah wanl-Nihayah, vol. 2, from many of the Salaf, that the number of Sulayman's wives was one thousand.
11:3 The royal wives were daughters of kings or important people in foreign nations . 5 Solomon worshipped Ashtoreth , the female god of the Sidonian people. He also worshipped Molech, the wicked god of the Ammonite people. 6 As a result, Solomon did things that the Lord said were evil .
God rejected King Saul, a bungler who made a few mistakes trying to do God's will, his own way. But he accepted King David, a rapist and murderer, forgave him two unforgivable sins, promised him an eternal kingdom, called him a man after his own heart--and put him in Jesus' lineage!
Two times the Bible says that God regretted something he had done in the past (Genesis 6:6–7; 1 Samuel 15:11).
13:14; 15:23), removed his Spirit from Saul (1 Sam. 16:14), and sent an evil spirit upon him (1 Sam. 16:14). God wasn't tempting Saul with the evil spirit; he sent it as an act of judgment in response to Saul's stubborn rebellion.