66 Bible Verses about Sitting

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Genesis 18:1

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

John 4:6

Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Exodus 2:15

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Exodus 17:12

But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."

Matthew 26:36

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."

Exodus 32:6

They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Luke 17:7

But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

Judges 19:6

So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: and the young lady's father said to the man, "Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry."

Ruth 2:14

At meal time Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

1 Samuel 20:24

So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.

Proverbs 23:1

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

Jeremiah 16:8

You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Matthew 14:19

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

Matthew 5:1-2

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Matthew 13:2

Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

Luke 2:46

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

John 8:2

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

Judges 21:2

The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

2 Samuel 7:18

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

Exodus 11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.

1 Kings 1:13

Go in to king David, and tell him, 'Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?'

1 Kings 3:6

Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

2 Kings 10:30

Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."

Zechariah 6:13

even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Mark 10:37

They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."

1 Kings 22:19

Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Matthew 26:64

Jesus said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky."

Luke 20:42

David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

Hebrews 10:12

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Revelation 4:10

the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

Revelation 7:10

They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

Exodus 18:13

It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Proverbs 20:8

A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

Daniel 7:26

But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

Joel 3:12

"Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

Matthew 27:19

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."

Luke 22:30

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"

Micah 4:4

But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

Zechariah 3:10

In that day,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"

Luke 22:69

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

Ephesians 1:20

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Topics on Sitting

People Sitting Down

John 6:10

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Sitting In Dejection

Lamentations 1:17

Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Sitting In Security

Micah 4:4

But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

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