Miracles in the Old Testament show God’s creation and interaction with his creation. God’s miracles also provide clear and convincing evidence of God’s existence, love, commands, judgement, and plan for spiritual redemption of humans, who God made in God’s image.
God’s creation. Fishnet Bible Stories and Free Bible Images.
God creates the heavens, earth, and life (Genesis 1:1–2:25).
Adam and Eve tempted by Satan
Satan the serpent tempts and entices Adam and Eve to disobey God by eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 3:1-7).
God stations mighty angelic beings to guard the way to the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:24).
God has a close relationship with Enoch and takes him to heaven before he dies (Genesis 5:24).
Noah’s Ark mosaic at a Russian church
God instructs Noah to build the ark, sends the animals, and causes the Flood (Genesis 6:1-8:22).
God multiplies the common language and scatters the people at Babel all over the earth (Genesis 11:1–9).
God’s two angels blind the men of Sodom (Genesis 19:11).
God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24–25).
Lot’s wife looks back at Sodom and Gomorrah, and becomes a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26).
God fulfills his promise of a son to Abram/Abraham and Sarai/Sarah in their old age (Genesis 15:1-6; 21:1-7).
Jacob wrestles with God, and God changes his name to Israel because he struggled with God and men and won (Genesis 32:24-29).
God tells Joseph the meaning of the two dreams of the Pharaoh of Egypt (Genesis 41:14-32).
God appears as a burning bush.
God appears to Moses as a burning bush (Exodus 3:3-18).
God changes Moses’ rod into a serpent to prove that God appeared to him (Exodus 4:3–5, 30-31).
God makes Moses’ hand leprous as a second sign that God appeared to him (Exodus 4:6–9, 30-31).
God changes Aaron’s rod into a serpent (Exodus 7:8–10).
First Plague. God turns the Nile River to blood (Exodus 7:20–25).
Second Plague. God makes frogs cover the whole land of Egypt (Exodus 8:1–15).
Third Plague. God makes gnats infest the entire land of Egypt and their animals (Exodus 8:16–19).
Fourth Plague. God sends a swarm of flies throughout Egypt (Exodus 8:20–24).
Fifth Plague. God sends a plague to destroy the livestock of the Egyptians (Exodus 9:1–7).
Sixth Plague. God takes soot from a furnace and made it spread as a plague of boils on the Egyptians and animals (Exodus 9:8–12).
Seventh Plague. God sends a hailstorm that kills the Egyptians’ livestock and servants in the field (Exodus 9:18–24).
Eighth Plague. God covers all of Egypt with locusts (Exodus 10:1–20).
Ninth Plague. God sends darkness throughout Egypt for three days (Exodus 10:21–23).
Tenth Plague. God passes through Egypt and destroys the first-born in Egypt (Exodus 12:29–30).
God guides Israel by a pillar of cloud during the day and by fire at night (Exodus 13:21–22, 14:19–20).
God parts the Red Sea in Exodus.
God parts the Red Sea as Israel crosses the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21–23).
God sweetens the bitter waters (Exodus 15:25).
God sends manna (Exodus 16:13–36).
God makes water gush from the rock in Rephidim (Exodus 17:5–8).
God defeats the army of Amalek while Moses’ arms and staff are raised (Exodus 17:9–13).
God blazes strange fire on Aaron’s sacrifice (Leviticus 9:24).
God burns up Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu after they disobey God and offer the wrong fire to God (Leviticus 10:1–2).
God judges Israel by fire after Israel complained to God (Numbers 11:1–3).
God inflicts Miriam with leprosy for at least 7 days after she and Aaron criticized their brother Moses as the only person that God spoke through (Numbers 12:10–15).
God destroys Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and 250 other prominent leaders by causing the earth to split and swallow them because they rebelled against Moses (Numbers 16:31–35).
God destroys the mutterers by a ravaging plague because they protested against Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16:41–50).
God makes Aaron’s staff bud with blossoms as a sign of the end of murmuring and complaining against Moses, Aaron, and God (Numbers 17:1-13).
God makes water gush from the rock in Kadesh after Moses struck the rock instead of commanding the rock to gush water as God had instructed. God does not allow Moses and Aaron to enter the Promised Land because they did not trust God (Numbers 20:6–13).
God orders Moses to make a snake out of bronze to heal those who had been bitten by poisonous snakes after they repented and looked at the bronze snake (Numbers 21:6-9).
God causes Balaam’s donkey to speak to him to warn him to avoid being killed by the angel of the LORD (Numbers 22:21–35).
God parts the Jordan River and allowed the Israelites to cross over near Jericho (Joshua 3:14–17).
The Israelites obey God and march around Jericho. Free Bible Images.
God causes the walls of Jericho to fall after the Israelites obey God and march around Jericho 7 times on the seventh day (Joshua 6:6–20).
God makes the sun and moon stand still as Israel defeats the Amorites (Joshua 10:12–14).
God proves to Gideon that God would use Gideon to rescue Israel by putting dew on Gideon’s fleece and then makes the fleece dry when the ground was covered with dew (Judges. 6:37–40).
Manoah and his wife (Samson’s parents) make an offering and watch God make the angel of the Lord ascend in flame up towards the sky (Judges 13:20).
The Spirit of the LORD powerfully takes control over Samson as he rips the lion’s jaws apart by his hands (Judges 14:5–6).
The Spirit of the LORD powerfully takes control over Samson as he kills 30 Philistines (Judges 14:19).
God makes water gush out of the hollow place in Lehi and revives Samson (Judges 15:19).
The Spirit of the LORD powerfully takes control over Samson as he takes the city gates out of the ground with the posts and carries the gates away (Judges 16:3).
Samson pushes over the supporting pillars of Dagon’s temple.
God strengthens Samson one last time as he pushes over the supporting pillars of Dagon’s temple and the temple crashes down on the Philistine leaders and people (Judges 16:29–30).
God makes the idol of Dagon fall before the captured Ark of God. God also afflicts the people of the cities with a plague of tumors (1 Samuel 5:1–12).
God kills 70 men of the men from Beth-shemesh because they looked into the Ark of the LORD (1 Samuel 6:19–20).
God answers Samuel’s call to God and sends thunder and rain during the wheat harvest time when it normally did not rain (1 Samuel 12:18).
David and Goliath
David kills Goliath with a sling and a stone in the name of the LORD after David recalls how the LORD saved him from the claws of a lion and a bear (1 Samuel 17:32-51).
God kills Uzzah because he put his hand on the Ark of God against God’s command not to touch the Ark (2 Samuel 6:6–7).
God withers and restores King Jeroboam’s hand (1 Kings 13:4–6).
God cracks the alter in Bethel and ashes pour out (1 Kings 13:5).
God empowers Elijah to order no dew or rain for the next few years unless he gave an order for dew or rain (1 Kings 17:1; James 5:17).
God sends ravens to bring bread and meat to Elijah each morning and evening (1 Kings 17:4–6).
God empowers Elijah to increase the widow’s oil and meal (1 Kings 17:12–17).
God empowers Elijah to raise the widow’s son from the dead (1 Kings 17:17–23).
God responds to Elijah and consumes by fire the sacrifice of the false prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:38).
God answers Elijah’s prayer for rain (1 Kings 18:41).
God answers Elijah’s command for fire that kills the army captain and 50 men (2 Kings 1:9–12).
God divides the Jordan River when Elijah folds his cloak together and strikes the water with it. Elijah and Elisha then cross the Jordan River to the other side (2 Kings 2:8).
A whirlwind in a chariot of fire takes Elijah to heaven. Free Bible Images.
God carries Elijah away to heaven by a whirlwind in a chariot of fire (2 Kings 2:11).
God empowers Elisha to use Elijah’s cloak to divide the Jordan River, and Elisha goes across (2 Kings 2:14).
God makes the water of Jericho safe to drink when Elisha throws salt in the water (2 Kings 2:20–22).
Young mockers of Elisha are torn apart by bears after he curses them in the LORD’S name (2 Kings 2:24).
The power of the LORD came upon Elisha and he made waters suddenly appear (2 Kings 3:16–20).
Elisha multiplies the widow’s olive oil so she could sell it to pay off her debts (2 Kings 4:1–7).
God empowers Elisha to raise the Shunammite woman’s son from the dead (2 Kings 4:19–37).
Elisha puts some flour in poisonous stew and makes it harmless (2 Kings 4:38–41).
Elisha feeds 100 prophets with 20 loaves (2 Kings 4:42–44).
God cures the army commander Naaman of leprosy after he washed himself 7 times in the Jordan River as Elisha’s messenger instructed (2 Kings 5:10–14).
God strikes Gehazi, Elisha’s servant, with leprosy because he accepted gifts on behalf of Elisha and hid them in the house (2 Kings 5:27).
God causes an axe head to float (2 Kings 6:5–7)
God reveals Ben-Hadad’s plans (2 Kings 6:8–13).
Elisha walks among the blinded Syrian army. Free Bible Images.
God makes the Syrian army blind and defeats them (2 Kings 6:18–20).
God resurrects a man when Elisha‘s bones touches him (2 Kings 13:21).
God’s angel destroys King Sennecherib’s army (2 Kings 19:35).
God heals King Hezekiah from a deadly illness after he sincerely prayed and tried to be faithful to God and please God (2 Kings 20:1-7).
God makes the shadow on the sundial move 10 steps backward as a sign that God would heal King Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:8-11).
God afflicts King Uzziah with leprosy because he became proud and sinned against God by entering the sanctuary of the LORD’s Temple and personally burned incense on the alter when God only allowed the priests to offer incense in the LORD’s Temple (2 Chronicles 26:16–21).
God protects Daniel’s three friends from burning in the fiery furnace after they refused to serve King Nebuchadnezzar’s gods or worship the gold statue he set up (Daniel 3:19–27).
God writes on the wall and Daniel interprets the writing for King Balshazzar that God found that the king failed God’s test and his kingdom would end immediately and be given to King Darius the Mede. That night King Balshazzar was killed by King Darius’ soldiers (Daniel 5:1-31).
Daniel in the lion’s den. Free Bible Images.
God protects Daniel from being eaten in the lion’s den after Daniel prayed to God and refused to pray to King Darius (Daniel 6:6–23).
Jonah swallowed by the great fish.
God preserves Jonah in the belly of great fish for 3 days. The fish spits Jonah out after Jonah repented from running from God and cried out in prayer to God that he would fulfill his vows (Jonah 2:1–10).