32 Bible Verses about Hasty Action

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.

Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it.

Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.

And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.

Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.

Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life.

For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.

And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, got up quickly and went down with the men of Judah for the purpose of meeting King David;

And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,

Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king.

Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and had them stopped by force.

Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King.

Then very early in the morning the king got up and went quickly to the lions' hole.

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.

Then Mary got up and went quickly into the high lands, to a town of Judah;

And they came quickly, and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child in the place where the cattle had their food.

And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.

For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.