11 Bible Verses about Fleeing From God

When you make a sound the peoples flee. When you rise up, the nations scatter.

When the Ark of the Covenant started out, Moses would say: ARISE, JEHOVAH; scatter your enemies and put to flight those who hate you!

Jonah tried to run away from the presence of Jehovah (YHWH). He went to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of Jehovah.

Then the men were very afraid, and they asked: What is this you have done? For the men knew that he was running away from the presence of Jehovah, because he told them.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?

He saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism. You offspring of vipers, he said, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

He told the crowds that came to be baptized by him: You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away.

The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. The Jordan River turned back.

Red Sea, why did you run away? Jordan River, what made you turn back?

I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it. From before him the earth and heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.