'Suddenly' in the Bible

‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.

Suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them came out.

‘But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or threw something at him without lying in wait,

So Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching all night from Gilgal.

So Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.

Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had prepared for the people, because the thing came about suddenly.

“If the scourge kills suddenly,He mocks the despair of the innocent.

“They spend their days in prosperity,And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;They shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.

To shoot from concealment at the blameless;Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.

But God will shoot at them with an arrow;Suddenly they will be wounded.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.

Suddenly he follows herAs an ox goes to the slaughter,Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

For their calamity will rise suddenly,And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?

A man who hardens his neck after much reproofWill suddenly be broken beyond remedy.

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust,And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away;And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

Therefore this iniquity will be to youLike a breach about to fall,A bulge in a high wall,Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,

“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:Loss of children and widowhood.They will come on you in full measureIn spite of your many sorceries,In spite of the great power of your spells.

“But evil will come on youWhich you will not know how to charm away;And disaster will fall on youFor which you cannot atone;And destruction about which you do not knowWill come on you suddenly.

“I declared the former things long agoAnd they went forth from My mouth, and I proclaimed them.Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

Disaster on disaster is proclaimed,For the whole land is devastated;Suddenly my tents are devastated,My curtains in an instant.

O daughter of my people, put on sackclothAnd roll in ashes;Mourn as for an only son,A lamentation most bitter.For suddenly the destroyerWill come upon us.

“Their widows will be more numerous before MeThan the sand of the seas;I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man,A destroyer at noonday;I will suddenly bring down on herAnguish and dismay.

May an outcry be heard from their houses,When You suddenly bring raiders upon them;For they have dug a pit to capture meAnd hidden snares for my feet.

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;Wail over her!Bring balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed.

Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.

“Will not your creditors rise up suddenly,And those who collect from you awaken?Indeed, you will become plunder for them.

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts.

in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep.

And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.

And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

and a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing;

And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him;

And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands.

and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

“But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me,

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.