'Lying' in the Bible

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. A large stone covered the opening of the well.

Issachar is a strong donkeylying down between the saddlebags.

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

“If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

The servants waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor!

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

When he lies down, notice the place where he’s lying, go in and uncover his feet, and lie down. Then he will explain to you what you should do.”

At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!

One day Eli, whose eyesight was failing, was lying in his room.

Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the tabernacle of the Lord, where the ark of God was located.

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, both Dagon’s head and the palms of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.

Immediately, David went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp with the troops camped around him.

That night, David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the troops were lying around him.

They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom and stabbed and killed him. Then they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.

Then Tamar went to his house while Amnon was lying down. She took dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his presence, and baked them.

“The Lord asked him, ‘How?’“He said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’“Then He said, ‘You will certainly entice him and prevail. Go and do that.’

“You see, the Lord has put a lying spirit into the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has pronounced disaster against you.”

When Elisha got to the house, he discovered the boy lying dead on his bed.

“So he said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’“Then He said, ‘You will entice him and also prevail. Go and do that.’

“Now, you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit into the mouth of these prophets of yours, and the Lord has pronounced disaster against you.”

When Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the large army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; nobody had escaped.

Is there injustice on my tongueor can my palate not taste disaster? >

Let lying lips be quieted;they speak arrogantly against the righteouswith pride and contempt.

You love evil instead of good,lying instead of speaking truthfully.Selah

They only plan to bring him downfrom his high position.They take pleasure in lying;they bless with their mouths,but they curse inwardly.Selah

abandoned among the dead.I am like the slain lying in the grave,whom You no longer remember,and who are cut off from Your care.

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;they speak against me with lying tongues.

“Lord, deliver me from lying lipsand a deceitful tongue.”

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,hands that shed innocent blood,

a lying witness who gives false testimony,and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Truthful lips endure forever,but a lying tongue, only a moment.

Lying lips are detestable to the Lord,but faithful people are His delight.

The righteous hate lying,but the wicked act disgustingly and disgracefully.

Making a fortune through a lying tongueis a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

A lying witness will perish,but the one who listens will speak successfully.

You’ll be like someone sleeping out at seaor lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,and a flattering mouth causes ruin. >

The head is the elder, the honored one;the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.

transgression and deception against the Lord,turning away from following our God,speaking oppression and revolt,conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

for wicked men live among My people.They watch like fowlers lying in wait.They set a trap;they catch men.

“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;the law of the Lord is with us’?In fact, the lying pen of scribeshas produced falsehood.

שׁ ShinBoth young and oldare lying on the ground in the streets.My young men and womenhave fallen by the sword.You have killed them in the day of Your anger,slaughtering without compassion.

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Didn’t you see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you proclaimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ even though I had not spoken?

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against you because you have spoken falsely and had lying visions.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not be present in the fellowship of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, and they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

“I passed by you and saw you lying in your blood, and I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live! Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live!

In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked and lying in your blood.

While they offer false visionsand lying divinations about you,the time has come to put youto the necks of the profane wicked ones;the day has comefor your punishment.

Her prophets plaster with whitewash for them by seeing false visions and lying divinations, and they say, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this:There was a tree in the middle of the earth,and its height was great.

“As I was lying in my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind an observer, a holy one, coming down from heaven.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream with visions in his mind as he was lying in his bed. He wrote down the dream, and here is the summary of his account.

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,and adultery are rampant;one act of bloodshed follows another.

“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible agony!”

When Jesus went into Peter’s house, He saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.

Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

This will be the sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in cloth and lying in a feeding trough.”

They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the feeding trough.

Immediately he got up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

they were lying in wait for Him to trap Him in something He said.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

Then Jesus, angry in Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

Stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in.

Then, following him, Simon Peter came also. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.

The wrapping that had been on His head was not lying with the linen cloths but was folded up in a separate place by itself.

She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where Jesus’ body had been lying.

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is praised forever, knows I am not lying.

Now I am not lying in what I write to you. God is my witness.

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

If we say, “We have fellowship with Him,” yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.

Take note! I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying—note this—I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.