'Before God' in the Bible
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, offered burnt offerings and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for elders of Israel, and for their heads, judges and officers which presented themselves before God.
And the people came to Bethel and abode there till evening, before God, and lifted up their voices and wept sore,
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, with singing, harps, psalteries, timbrels and trumpets.
And there he died before God. And David was displeased, because the LORD had rent a rent in Uzzah, and called the said place Perezuzzah unto this day.
When they had brought in the Ark of God they set it in the tent that David had pitched for it. And they brought burnt sacrifice and peace offerings before God.
And they put them in order by lot, one with another that there should be rulers in the sanctuary and lords before God as well of the sons of Ithamar as of the sons of Eleazar.
Because thine heart did melt and thou didst meek thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabiters thereof, and humblest thyself before me, and tarest thy clothes and weepest before me, that have I heard also, sayeth the LORD.
And the vessels that are given thee for the ministration in the house of thy God, those deliver thou before God at Jerusalem.
As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God.
But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Job, that he called himself just before God.
Behold, before God am I, even as thou, for I am fashioned and made even of the same mould.
For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
that he may dwell before God for ever. O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
But the righteous shall be glad and rejoice before God, they shall be merry and joyful.
and let not thine heart speak anything rashly before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.
And now make your prayer before God, that he may have mercy upon us: for such things have ye done. Shall he regard your persons, think ye, sayeth the LORD of Hosts?