'Steps' in the Bible

And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.

And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.

Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

“Indeed, He loves the people;All Your holy ones are in Your hand,And they followed in Your steps;Everyone receives of Your words.

Through the window she hath looked out -- Yea, she crieth out -- the mother of Sisera, Through the lattice: Wherefore is his chariot delaying to come? Wherefore tarried have the steps of his chariot?

He guards the steps of His faithful ones,but the wicked perish in darkness,for a man does not prevail by his own strength.

Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit.

David’s men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words.

When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and there was a porch in front of them; and there were pillars, and steps in front of them.

And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps.

The king made the almug wood into steps for the Lord’s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood come, and the like has not been seen again even to this very day.

The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised: Should the shadow go ahead 10 steps or go back 10 steps?”

Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen 10 steps. No, let the shadow go back 10 steps.”

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and He brought the shadow back the 10 steps it had descended on Ahaz’s stairway.

All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

The king used the algum wood to have steps made for the LORD's Temple and for the royal palace, as well as lyres and harps for the choir, and nothing like that wood had been seen before in the territory of Judah.

And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter."

And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

Then the Levites -- Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani -- stood on the steps and called out loudly to the LORD their God.

They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

At the Fountain Gate they climbed the steps of the city of David on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

You've locked my feet in stocks; you watch all my steps; You've limited where I can walk.

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,And he steps on the webbing.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

For His eyes watch over a man’s ways,and He observes all his steps.

My steps are on Your paths;my feet have not slipped.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

He brought me up from a desolate pit,out of the muddy clay,and set my feet on a rock,making my steps secure.

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.

I thought about my waysand turned my steps back to Your decrees.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

Preserve me, Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked, From one of violence Thou keepest me, Who have devised to overthrow my steps.

I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

You aren't thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it.

So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].

The inexperienced one believes anything,but the sensible one watches his steps.

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

The first to put forth his case seems right, until someone else steps forward and cross-examines him.

Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps.

A man’s steps are determined by the Lord,so how can anyone understand his own way?

A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:

Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.

(The Bridegroom)“O my dove, [here] in the clefts in the rock,In the sheltered and secret place of the steep pathway,Let me see your face,Let me hear your voice;For your voice is sweet,And your face is lovely.”

The Lord also says:Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,walking with heads held highand seductive eyes,going along with prancing steps,jingling their ankle bracelets,

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.

I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Indeed, I hear many people whispering, "Terror on every side. Denounce him, let's denounce him!" All my close friends watch my steps and say, "Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him."

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

“Place for yourself road signs [toward Canaan],Make for yourself guideposts;Turn your thought and attention to the highway,To the way by which you went [into exile].Retrace your steps, O virgin of Israel,Return to these your cities.

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

And fall upon me doth the Spirit of Jehovah, and He saith unto me, 'Say: Thus said Jehovah: Rightly ye have said, O house of Israel, And the steps of your spirit I have known.

Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 feet deep—the first threshold was 10 feet deep.

And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.

And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.