70 Bible Verses about Bowing

As governor of the country, Joseph was selling grain to everyone. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed in front of him with their faces touching the ground.

Three days later a soldier came from Saul's army. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head. He knelt down in front of David.

Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

Jacob went ahead of them. He bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Joseph came home and they gave him the gifts they had brought. They bowed down to him. Joseph asked how they were. He said: What about your elderly father? Is he still alive? They answered: Your servant our father is still alive and well. Again they bowed down to Joseph.

Judah, your brothers will praise you. You hold your enemies by the neck. Your brothers will bow down before you.

All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me. They will say: Go out, you and all the people who follow you. Then I will go out. He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law. Moses bowed with his face touching the ground and kissed Jethro. They asked each other how they were. Then they entered the tent.

Then she bowed down on her face to the earth, and said to him: Why have I found favor in your eyes? For you give me attention and I am a foreigner.

Your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat.'

Then David got up and left the cave. He called to Saul: My lord! When Saul looked back. David knelt down with his face touching the ground.

Abigail saw David and quickly got down from her donkey. She immediately bowed down in front of David with her face touching the ground.

The man would approach Absalom and bow down before him. Then Absalom would reach out and hug and kiss him.

Ahimaaz approached the king, greeted him, and bowed down in front of him. Ahimaaz said: May Jehovah your God be praised. He has handed over the men who rebelled against Your Majesty.

Bathsheba bowed low before the king. He asked: What do you want?

Araunah saw King David approaching. He left the threshing place and bowed low with his face touching the ground.

Kings will be your guardians. Their princesses will be your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth. They will lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Jehovah. Those who hopefully wait for me will not be put to shame.

He looked up and noticed three men coming toward him. He ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed to the ground.

That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he got up to greet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed low to the ground.

Then Jehovah let Balaam see the angel standing there with his sword. Balaam threw himself face down on the ground.

This frightened them and they bowed down prostrate on the ground. The two men said to them: Why do you seek the living among the dead?

The people believed them. When they heard that Jehovah was concerned about the people of Israel and that he had seen their misery, they knelt, bowed low and worshiped.

Then King Jehoshaphat bowed low. His face was touching the ground. All the people bowed with him and worshiped Jehovah.

Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before Jehovah our maker.

Abram fell on his face and God said to him:

The man knelt down and worshiped Jehovah.

You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'

Moses hurried to bow low toward the earth and worship.

Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground that You, O Jehovah have given me. Set it down before Jehovah your God, and worship before Jehovah your God.'

Jehovah loves his people. All Your holy ones are in your hand. They followed in your steps and everyone receives your words.

Even the royal officials have come to congratulate His Majesty King David, saying: May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and his reign greater than your reign. The king himself bowed down on his bed

Jehovah took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm. He is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

Then David commanded the people: Praise Jehovah your God! The entire assembly praised Jehovah, the God of their ancestors. They bowed low and gave honor to Jehovah and also to the king.

Everyone there joined in worship. The singing and the rest of the music continued until all the sacrifices were burned.

Ezra praised Jehovah, the great God. And all the people said: Amen! With lifted hands and bent heads they worshiped Jehovah. They dropped to their faces on the earth.

All the ends of the earth will remember and return to Jehovah. All the families from all the nations will worship you.

From one month to the next and from one week to the next all people will come to worship me, declares Jehovah.

But as for me, by your abundant loving kindness I will enter your house. At Your holy temple I will bow in reverence of you.

I will bow toward your holy temple. I will praise your name because of your loving kindness and truth. You have made your name and your covenant greater than everything.

They have already turned from the way I commanded them to live. They made a statue of a calf for themselves. They have bowed down to it and offered sacrifices to it. They said: Israel, here is your god who brought you out of Egypt.'

They broke all the laws of Jehovah their God. They made two metal bull-calves to worship. They also made an image of the goddess Asherah. Also they worshiped the stars and served the god Baal.

Their land is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

The Moabites invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

They served other gods and worshiped them. These are gods whom they have not known and whom he had not allotted to them.

He built the high places that Hezekiah his father destroyed. He made altars for Baal. Then he made an Asherah as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. Manasseh was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

After Amaziah came back from defeating the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down to them, and burned sacrifices to them.

But the rest of the wood they make into gods, carved statues. They bow to them and worship them. They pray to them and say: Rescue us, because you are our gods.

So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.

I will remove your graven images and your sacred pillars from you. You will no longer worship the work of your hands.

They entered the house and saw the young child with his mother Mary. They bowed down and paid him homage. Then they opened their treasure chests and offered gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,

A leper came to him and bowed down before him, saying: Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.

While he was speaking, an official came and paid him respect. He said: By now my daughter must be dead. Come and lay your hand on her and she will live.

She bowed down before him and asked for help.

They made a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They placed a rod in his right hand. Then they bowed down on their knees before him. They mocked him, saying: Long life to the King of the Jews.

He saw Jesus from far off and quickly approached and bowed down before him.

As he traveled someone ran to him, kneeled and asked him: Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit everlasting life?

He fell on his face at Jesus feet and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.

I walked around as if I were mourning for my friend or my brother. I was bent over as if I were mourning for my mother.

Jehovah sustains all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.

I am bent over and bowed down very low. All day I walk around in sadness.

They have prepared a net for my steps. I am bowed down. They dig a pit before me. But they have fallen into it.

Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.

The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.