12 Bible Verses about Facing South

Then the man said to me: “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple. The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the Lord to serve Him.”

“Son of man, face the south and preach against it. Prophesy against the forest land in the Negev,

Does the hawk take flight by your understanding
and spread its wings to the south?

Gusting to the south,
turning to the north,
turning, turning, goes the wind,
and the wind returns in its cycles.

He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by His might.

You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,

When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they had achieved their purpose. They weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete.

From there, after making a circuit along the coast, we reached Rhegium. After one day a south wind sprang up, and the second day we came to Puteoli.

Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers: one beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south gate, facing north.

Then the man said to me: “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.

The inner court had a gate on the south. He measured from gate to gate on the south; it was 175 feet.

An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.)