'Shelter' in the Bible

Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

But Jacob journeyed [north] to Succoth, and built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock; so the name of the place is Succoth (huts, shelters).

Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"

You are to set aside six towns of refuge from the towns that you will be giving to the descendants of Levi, where someone who kills a human being may run for shelter. In addition, give them 42 other towns.

Who ate the fat of their sacrificesand drank the wine of their drink offerings?Let them rise up and help you;let it be a shelter for you.

She asked, ‘Will you let me gather fallen grain among the bundles behind the harvesters?’ She came and has remained from early morning until now, except that she rested a little in the shelter.”

My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, my stronghold, my refuge, my savior. You save me from violence!

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord's promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

The rest of the Aramean army retreated into Aphek, but the city wall collapsed on 27,000 soldiers who had taken shelter there. Ben-hadad himself ran away and hid inside a closet somewhere in the city.

and for the refined gold of the incense altar. He gave him the blueprint for the seat of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and provide shelter for the ark of the Lord's covenant.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!

But let all who take refuge in You rejoice;let them shout for joy forever.May You shelter them,and may those who love Your name boast about You.

A musical composition by David, which he sang to the Lord concerning a Benjaminite named Cush. O Lord my God, in you I have taken shelter. Deliver me from all who chase me! Rescue me!

For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, "Flee to a mountain like a bird!

You, Lord, will protect them; you will continually shelter each one from these evil people,

You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the Lord is their shelter.

A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer. My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, and my refuge.

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord's promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

Protect me and deliver me! Please do not let me be humiliated, for I have taken shelter in you!

For He will conceal me in His shelterin the day of adversity;He will hide me under the cover of His tent;He will set me high on a rock.

For the music director; a psalm of David. In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated! Vindicate me by rescuing me!

How great is your favor, which you store up for your loyal followers! In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter in you.

You hide them in the protection of Your presence;You conceal them in a shelterfrom the schemes of men,from quarrelsome tongues.

Taste and see that the Lord is good! How blessed is the one who takes shelter in him!

The Lord rescues his servants; all who take shelter in him escape punishment.

How precious is your loyal love, O God! The human race finds shelter under your wings.

I would hurry to my shelterfrom the raging wind and the storm.”

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

As for me, I will sing about your strength; I will praise your loyal love in the morning. For you are my refuge and my place of shelter when I face trouble.

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

I will live in Your tent foreverand take refuge under the shelter of Your wings.Selah

God delivers me and exalts me; God is my strong protector and my shelter.

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

The godly will rejoice in the Lord and take shelter in him. All the morally upright will boast.

In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!

Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.

But as for me, God's presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.

The one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, who rests in the shadow of the Almighty,

I say this about the Lord, my shelter and my stronghold, my God in whom I trust --

He will shelter you with his wings; you will find safety under his wings. His faithfulness is like a shield or a protective wall.

For you have taken refuge in the Lord, my shelter, the sovereign One.

But the Lord will protect me, and my God will shelter me.

It is better to take shelter in the LORD than to trust in people.

It is better to take shelter in the LORD than to trust in princes.

You are my shelter and my shield;I put my hope in Your word.

The Lord protects you;the Lord is a shelter right by your side.

O Lord, shelter me from the power of the wicked! Protect me from violent men, who plan to knock me over.

Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!

I cry to You, Lord;I say, “You are my shelter,my portion in the land of the living.”

who loves me and is my stronghold, my refuge and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I take shelter, who makes nations submit to me.

Daughter Zion is abandonedlike a shelter in a vineyard,like a shack in a cucumber field,like a besieged city.

and there will be a booth for shade from heat by day, and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

Give us counsel and make a decision.Shelter us at noondaywith shade that is as dark as night.Hide the refugees;do not betray the one who flees.

Let the fugitives from Moab settle among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor comes to an end, and destruction has ceased, and the marauder has vanished from the land,

For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat for the blistering attack from the ruthless is like a rainstorm beating against a wall,

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,And with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have made an agreement,When the overwhelming scourge passes by, it will not reach us,For we have made lies our refuge and we have concealed ourselves in deception.”

“I will make justice the measuring lineAnd righteousness the mason’s level;Then hail will sweep away the refuge of liesAnd waters will flood over the secret [hiding] place.

They set out to go down to Egyptwithout asking My advice,in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protectionand take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.

“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shameAnd the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,a refuge from the rain,like streams of water in a dry landand the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

Oh that I had in the wildernessA lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,That I might leave my peopleAnd go away from them!For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].

“He has left His lair like the lion;For their land has become a horrorBecause of the fierceness of the oppressorAnd because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”

How long will you turn here and there,faithless daughter?For the Lord creates something new in the land—a female will shelter a man.

I will plant it on Israel’s high mountainso that it may bear branches, produce fruit,and become a majestic cedar.Birds of every kind will nest under it,taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant,and on it was food for all.Wild animals found shelter under it,the birds of the air lived in its branches,and every creature was fed from it.

with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit enough food for everyone and under which wild animals of the field found shelter and the birds of the air had nests in its branches

And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel.

Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

Pass away, inhabitress of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitress of Zaanan is not come forth for the lamentation of Beth-ezel: he will take from you its shelter.

He bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is prepared.

and of all the seeds [planted in the region] it is the smallest, but when it has grown it is the largest of the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air find shelter in its branches.”

It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky found shelter and nested in its branches.”

From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were contrary.

When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;

After running under the shelter of a little island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the skiff.

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.

For this reason they are before the throne of God,and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary.The One seated on the throne will shelter them: