'Sit' in the Bible

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace."

(For there were about five thousand men.) So he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

And they did so, and had [them] all sit down.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down [and] calculate the cost [to see] if he has [enough] {to complete it}?

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly [and] write fifty.'

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

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