'Before God' in the Bible

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Now listen to me: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God,

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.

David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

The anger of the Lord burned against Uzza, so He struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.

And they brought in the ark of God and placed it inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.

‘Can mankind be just before God?Can a man be pure before his Maker?

“But as for me, I would seek God,And I would place my cause before God;

“In truth I know that this is so;But how can a man be in the right before God?

“Indeed, you do away with reverenceAnd hinder meditation before God.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

“For He does not need to consider a man further,That he should go before God in judgment.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and appear before God?

For You have delivered my soul from death,Indeed my feet from stumbling,So that I may walk before GodIn the light of the living.

He will abide before God forever;Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;As wax melts before the fire,So let the wicked perish before God.

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

They go from strength to strength,Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

I say, “Keep the command of the king because of the oath before God.