32 occurrences

'Looked Up' in the Bible

He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed to the ground.

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female slaves.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?”He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”

Then they sat down to eat a meal. They looked up, and there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

When he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother that you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians coming after them. Then the Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help.

When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him,

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”

The people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed to see it.

Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man who was standing watch looked up, there were many people coming from the road west of him from the side of the mountain.

He looked up toward the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him,

When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell down with their faces to the ground.

But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified Him who lives forever:For His dominion is an everlasting dominion,and His kingdom is from generation to generation.

I looked up, and there was a ram standing beside the canal. He had two horns. The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up last.

I looked up, and there was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of gold from Uphaz around his waist.

I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.

Then I looked up and saw two women approaching with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and sky.

Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between two mountains. And the mountains were made of bronze.

When they looked up they saw no one except Him—Jesus alone.

He looked up and said, “I see people—they look to me like trees walking.”

And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.

When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today I must stay at your house.”

He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:Father,the hour has come.Glorify Your Sonso that the Son may glorify You,

came and stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ And in that very hour I looked up and saw him.

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