19 Bible Verses about Escaping, Physical Things

During the night the disciples let him down by the wall in a basket.

So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.

Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. They said to Lot: Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out of here right now, or you will be caught in the destruction of the city. Lot still hesitated. So the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for Jehovah was merciful.

Everyone in the synagogue was angry when they heard these things. They rose up to drive him out of the city. They led him to the top of the hill where their city was built to throw him down the hill. But he passed through the midst of them and went his way.

King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder. She gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed. Only Ahaziah's son Jehoash escaped. He was about to be killed with the others, but was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram's daughter and Ahaziah's half sister. She hid him and his nurse in a bedroom in the Temple. Jehosheba took care of the boy and kept him hidden in the Temple for six years. During this time Athaliah ruled as queen.

In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's gate two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the gate, being angry, looked for a chance to attack King Ahasuerus. Mordecai had knowledge of their purpose and sent word of it to Esther the queen. Esther gave the news to the king in Mordecai's name. It was investigated and found to be true. The two men were put to death by hanging on a tree: and it was recorded in the records before the king.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him: Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him. In the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai. Then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.

Then Harbonah, one of the court officials waiting before the king, said: See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place near Haman's house. Then the king said: Put him to death by hanging him on it.

They captured the apostles and put them in the common prison. During the night God's angel opened the prison doors, brought them out and said: Go stand in the temple and speak to the people all the sayings about this life.

The sailors were seeking to flee from the ship. They lowered the boat into the sea by pretending they were lowering some anchors from the bow. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Unless these men remain in the ship, you cannot be saved. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.read more.
At daybreak Paul encouraged all of them to eat some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue without food.

They also captured Lot, son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. He was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. They were Abram's allies.

Ehud got away while they were waiting. He went past the carved stones and escaped to Seirah.

Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite. There was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

David escaped from the town of Gath and he went to Adullam Cave. Once they found out where he was his brothers and the rest of his family followed him there.

David and his men, about six hundred in all, left Keilah. They went wherever they could go. Then Saul was told: David has escaped from Keilah! So he gave up the campaign.

David asked: Where did you come from? The man answered: I escaped from Israel's army.

Saul tried to pin David to the wall with his spear. David dodged it, and Saul's spear struck the wall. David escaped from Saul that night.

Michal lowered David through a window. He ran away to escape.