OLD TESTAMENT: THE SPIRIT OF GOD ( RUACH HAKODESH) & OTHER SPIRITS

• Every reference to the word "Spirit" in the old testament is listed with a brief  context 
• Zechariah 4:6 inspiration 
• Pray and believe these verses when in need and interceding for others 
• Refer to see how God's, man's and other spirits are different from each other
• Be reminded that anything is possible with God through His Spirit
• I pray this list will uplift your spirit 
• Yellow highlighted verses were exceptionally interesting
• New Testament references to the word "spirit" will be next post

GENESIS

• Gen 1:2 - was over the face of the waters
• Gen 41:38 - dwells in people

EXODUS

• Ex 28:3 ; 31:3 ; 35:31 - God Spirit can give people skill, ability, intelligence, knowledge, and craftsmanship

NUMBERS

• Num 11:17 - The Spirit is on certain people and can be spread to other people to help them bear the burdens of others (Moses)
• Num 11:25 - was spread to elders for a temporary spiritual gift of prophecy
• Num 11:26 - rests on people to help them prophecy
• Num 11:29 - The Lord can put His Spirit upon people
• Num 14:24 - Caleb had a different spirit and that spirit followed the Lord fully
• Num 16:22 ; 27:16 - The Lord is God over all spirits of the flesh
• Num 27:18 - Joshua had the Spirit of God in him

DEUTERONOMY

• Deut 2:30 - The Lord can harden a spirit and make it obstinate (Sihon King of Heshbon)
• Deut 34:9 - Joshua was full of the Spirit of Wisdom because Moses laid his hands on him

JOSHUA

• Josh 2:11 ; 5:1 - Realizing who God is can take the spirit out of a person because of His magnitude.

JUDGES

• Judges 3:10 - The Spirit of the Lord was upon Othniel of the son of Kenaz - Caleb's younger brother
• Judges 6:34 - The Spirit clothed Gideon
• Judges 9:23 - God can send an evil spirit upon people as judgement
• Judges 11:29 - was upon Jephthah to pass through various regions
• Judges 13:25 - The Spirit can stir people (Sampson)
• Judges 14:6 - The Spirit can rush upon people to give strength to survive an animal attack (Sampson)
• Judges 14:19 - can rush upon a person to help them defeat 30 men and fulfill requirements of wagers
• Judges 15:14 - can rush upon a person to help them overcome and defeat 1,000 enemies.

1 SAMUEL

• 1 Sam 10:6 - The Spirit rushes upon Saul and makes him another man ( a different spirit-filled man)
• 1 Sam 10:10 - can change a man so that others notice the difference (Saul)
• 1 Sam 11:6 - rushed upon Saul
• 1 Sam 16:13 - rushed upon David
• 1 Sam 16:14 - can depart from people and can be replaced by a tormenting spirit (Saul)
• 1 Sam 16:15 - people can identify other harmful spirits that torment (Saul's servant)
• 1 Sam 16:16, 23; 18:10; 19:9 - God can cause an evil spirit to come upon a person. That evil spirit can depart because of soothing music, but can then return,
• 1 Sam 19:20 -  came upon messengers to prophecy
• 1 Sam 19:23 -  came come upon Naioth to prophecy
• 1 Sam 28:8 - Divination happens by a spirit or spirits

2 SAMUEL

• 2 Sam 23:2 - Speaks through people by His words being on their tongue

1 KINGS

• 1 Kings 18:12 - can carry people from one physical location to a different physical location

2 KINGS

•  2 Kings 19:7 - God can put a spirit inside someone to cause rumors

1 CHRONICLES

• 1 Chron 5:26 - God can stir up the spirit of a person
• 1 Chron 12:18 - can come upon or clothe a person to assure peace (Amasai)

2 CHRONICLES

• 2 Chron 15:1 - The Spirit comes upon Azariah
• 2 Chron 18:20 - Other enticing spirits can come forward before God and ask to entice people
• 2 Chron 18:21 - God can approve of other spirits requests to lie to people and grant them false success
• 2 Chron 18:22 - The Lord can put a lying spirit among prophets
• 2 Chron 20:14 - The Spirit came upon Jahaziel
• 2 Chron 24:20 - The Spirit cam upon or clothed Zechariah to speak to the people
• 2 Chron 36:22 - The Lord stirs up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia to send out a proclamation in the kingdom

EZRA

• Ezra 1:1 - The Lord stirs up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia to send out a proclamation in the kingdom
• Ezra 1:5 - God can stir up the spirit of certain people to rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem

NEHEMIAH

• Nem 9:20 - can instruct people
• Nem 9:30 - can warn people through prophets

JOB

• Job 4:15 - Other spirits can glide past the face of people causing the hair of their flesh to stand up
• Job 32:8 - The spirit in man IS the breath of the Almighty who makes man understand.
• Job 33:4 - The Spirit of God makes man, and God Breath gives man his life.

PSALMS

• Ps 31:5 - A man can commit his spirit to God
• Ps 32:2 - A man's spirit can be free from deceit and blessed by God who counts him as without iniquity
• Ps 34:18 - A man's spirit can be crushed and broken, and the Lord is near to them
• Ps 51:10 - The spirit of a man can be renewed
• Ps 51:11 - The Spirit of God can be taken away from a man, and a man can be cast away from God's presence
• Ps 51:12 - A man can be given a willing spirit
• Ps 51:17 - God will not despise a man's broken spirit
• Ps 76:12 - God can cut off the spirit of princes
• Ps 77:3 - The spirit of a man can faint
• Ps 77:6 - The spirit of a man can diligently search
• Ps 78:8 -  The spirit of a man can be without faith and with rebellion toward God
• Ps 104:30 - The Spirit of God creates and renews
• Ps 139:7 - The Spirit of God is everywhere. He is present everywhere
• Ps 142:3 ; 143:4 - A man's spirit can faint
• Ps 143:7 - The spirit of a man can fail
• Ps 143:10 - The Spirit can lead a man on level ground

PROVERBS

• Prov 1:23 - God will pour out His Spirit and make His words known to a man who turns at His reproof.
• Prov 11:13 - A man's spirit can be trustworthy to keep things covered
• Prov 15:4 - Perverseness or distorting the original intended way through the tongue breaks a man's spirit
• Prov 15:13 - A man's spirit is crushed by a sorrowful heart; and a man's face reveals his spirit's condition
• Prov 16:2 - The Lord weighs a man's spirit not his ways
• Prov 16:18 - A man's haughty spirit leads to falling
• Prov 16:19 - It is better to be humble in spirit
• Prov 16:32 - A man who will rule his own spirit is better than the mighty who can take a city
• Prov 17:22 - A crushed spirit dries up a man's bones, but a joyful spirit is good medicine
• Prov 17:27 - A man with a cool spirit who restrains his words is with understanding
• Prov 18:14 - A crushed spirit can not endure sickness, but the uplifted spirit of a man can.
• Prov 20:27 - The Lamp of God is the spirit of a man. The spirit of a man searches all his innermost parts (see Job 32:8)
• Prov 29:3 - A lowly spirit will obtain honor
• Prov 29:11 - A wise man does not vent his full spirit. It is foolish to vent the full spirit of a man. A wise man quietly holds back.

ECCLESIASTES

• Eccl 3:21 - A man's spirit goes upward, and an animal's spirit goes downward to the earth
• Eccl 7:8 - Patient in spirit is better the being proud in spirit.
• Eccl 7:9 - Do not be quick to anger in spirit because it lodges in the heart.
• Eccl 8:8 - Man does not have power to return his spirit from death
• Eccl 11:5 - The Spirit of God makes everything and can't be fully understood
• Eccl 12:7 - The spirit of man returns to God who gave it to a man

ISAIAH

• Is 4:4 - God washes away filth and cleanses bloodstains by a spirit of judgement and a spirit of burning
• Is 11:2 - The Spirit of the Lord's wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of the Lord can rest upon a man
• Is 19:3 - The spirit of a certain people group can be emptied out so that they are confused and seek idols, sorcerers, mediums, necromancers, and the dead
• Is 19:14 - The Lord can mingle into a people group a spirit of confusion causing staggering
• Is 26:9 - The soul and spirit of a man can earnestly seek the Lord
• Is 28:6 - A man can be given a spirit of justice for judging, and a spirit of strength for battling
• Is 29:10 - The Lord can pour out a spirit of deep sleep on people to close their eyes and heads
• Is 29:24 - A man's spirit can go astray but can also come back to understanding
• Is 30:1 - Man can choose to do things in their own spirit and not in the Lord's Spirit 
• Is 31:3 - Horses are flesh and not spirit
• Is 32:15 - The Spirit of God can be poured out
• Is 34:16 - The Spirit of God can gather people together so that they don't go missing or won't be alone
• Is 37:7 - God can put a spirit in a man so he hears rumors
• Is 38:16 - Hezekiah cries out by his spirit for the Lord to make him live
• Is 40:13 - The Spirit of God can not be measured or given counsel 
• Is 42:1 - The Lord God puts His Spirit upon Jesus, the One in whom He delights, and upholds, and has chosen
• Is 42:5 - The Lord puts His Spirit into the people who walk on the earth. He is Creator
• Is 44:3 - God pours His Spirit out upon people's offspring and descendants
• Is 48:16 - Isaiah is sent and possesses God's Spirit
• Is 54:6 - A wife's spirit can be grieved because she has been deserted or cast off
• Is 57:15 - The Lord inhabits eternity, and is dwelling in the high holy place, and He is with the one who is a contrite, and lowly spirit to REVIVE the lowly spirit and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Is 57:16 - The spirit of a man, which has been given to man by God, can't stand, but would grow faint if the Lord remained angry
• Is 59:21 - God makes a covenant with His people to put His unending Spirit, and words upon them and their offspring and their offspring...now and forever
• Is 61:1 - The Spirit anointed Jesus to help him bring good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and open prison doors for those bound
• Is 63:10 - The Spirit of God can be grieved because of one's rebellion, and turn to become an enemy and to fight against a person
• Is 63:11 - God puts his Holy Spirit in the midst of a people
• Is 63:14 - The Spirit gives rest to a people
• Is 65:14 - A man can have pain of heart and wail because of a broken spirit within him
• Is 66:2 - The Lord will look to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at His word

JEREMIAH

• Jer 51:1 - The Lord can stir up a spirit that is against and destroys inhabitants or cities
• Jer 51:11 - The Lord can stir up the spirit of Kings in order to destroy a city to take vengeance upon it

LAMENTATIONS

• Lam 1:16 - The spirit of a man needs a comforter to be revived

EZEKIAL

• Ezk 1:12 - Spiritual creatures can follow the Spirit of God wherever He goes
• Ezk 1:20 - The spirit of a spiritual creature can be within an object
• Ezk 2:2 - The Spirit of God can enter into a person
• Ezk 3:12 - The Spirit of God can lift a person up
• Ezk 3:14 - The Spirit can lift a person and take them away, in the bitterness of their spirit, yet have the hand of God strong upon them
• Ezk 3:24 - The Spirit of God can enter a person and set them on their feet, and speak to a person to go shut themselves in their house
• Ezk 8:3; 11:1 - can lift a person in the form of a hand and grab a part of their hair toward and between heaven and earth. He can bring a person in visions of God to a place
• Ezk 10:17 - The spirit of heavenly creatures can be within a spiritual object (wheels)
• Ezk 11:5 - Can fall upon a person and speak to them a word to say God knows what comes into the mind of a person or people group
• Ezk 11:19; 36:26 - God can give people a His Spirit and remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh
• Ezk 11:24 - can lift a person up in a vision by the Spirit to another place, and that vision can then go up from that person
• Ezk 13:3 - God warns that we should not follow our own foolish spirits
• Ezk 18:31 - God beseeches us to cast away our transgressions through repenting so iniquity doesn't ruin us, and so he can make for us a new heart and spirit.
• Ezk 21:7 - God declares that every spirit will faint because of His judgement
• Ezk 36:27 - God can put His Spirit within people and cause them to walk in His statutes and be careful to obey his rules
• Ezk 37:1 - The Spirit can bring a person by the hand of the Lord into a valley of bones
• Ezk 37:14 - God can put his Spirit within people so that they shall live and have their own land so that they know he is the Lord
• Ezk 39:29 -  God's face is not hidden from a people when he pours out His Spirit upon them.
• Ezk 43:5 - The Spirit can lift a person up and bring them to a new physical place

DANIEL

• Dan 2:1 - A man's spirit can become troubled because of dreams, and then sleep evades him
• Dan 4:8,9,18; 5:11,12,14 - God's Spirit is in Daniel and it is recognized by others 
• Dan 5:20 - A man's spirit can become hardened because of pride and brought down to lose position and authority and glory
• Dan 6:3 - Daniel possessed an excellent spirit
• Dan 7:15 - A man's spirit can become anxious because of alarming visions

HOSEA

• Hos 4:12 - A spirit of whoredom can be in a people causing them to leave the true God
• Hos 5:4 - The spirit of whoredom in a people causes certain deeds that don't permit them to return to God or know God
• Hos 9:7 - People with corrupt ways have the spirit of man which is mad, angry, hateful and full of iniquity

JOEL

• Joel 2:28 - God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh so that sons and daughters prophecy, elderly dream dreams, and the young men see visions
• Joel 2:29 - God pours out His Spirit even on male and female servants

MICAH

• Mic 3:8 - A man can be filled with power, the Spirit of the Lord, justice and might to declare the transgressions and sin of a nation

HAGGAI

• Hag 1:14 - The Lord can stir up the spirit of multiple people to accomplish a task
• Hag 2:5 - God declares his covenants and keeps them by keeping His Spirit within a people's midst so they don't fear

ZECHARIAH

• Zec 4:6 - The Lord declares that life is done by His Spirit and not might nor power
• Zec 6:8 - Spiritual creatures sent by God can put His Spirit to rest in regions they visit
• Zec 7:12 - Man's heart can become diamond hard and unable to hear the law and words of God that were put in his prophets of old by His Spirit
• Zec 12:1 - God formed the spirit of man within him
• Zec 12:10 - God pours out a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that when Israel finally sees Jesus for who he is, they will mourn and weep bitterly over him
• Zec 13:2 - God can remove the spirit of uncleanness 

MALACHI

• Mal 2:15 - God puts a portion of His Holy Spirit between a husband and wife to make them one in order to create Godly offspring. He commands that the husband guard himself in his spirit so he does not become faithless to his wife, and so that what Judah did and the consequences he faced will to happen to others. His consequences were weeping and groaning because God no longer accepted offering and the sacrifice with favor because of faithlessness to his wife. His descendant were cut off from the tents of Jacob!
• Mal 2:16 - Faithlessness to one's wife leads to divorce which in the eyes of God is like violence. God commands a husband to protect his spirit from faithlessness