32 Bible Verses about Hasty Action

It is not good to be a person without knowledge. He who hurries often misses the way.

Do not be quick in your spirit (mind) (figurative heart) to be angry. Anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.

Then Abraham ran to the herd. He selected a fat calf and told a servant to butcher it and prepare it.

Drink, my lord, she said. She quickly lowered her jar to her hand and gave him a drink.

She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also'; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.

She quickly emptied her jar into the water trough. Then she ran back to the well to draw more water. She drew enough for all his camels.

Right away he rushed off to his room and cried because of his love for Benjamin.

Each of the brothers quickly put his sack on the ground and opened it.

Pharaoh quickly called for Moses and Aaron and said: I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.

Eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's Passover.'

Moses hurried to bow low toward the earth and worship.

Do not eat leavened bread with it. Eat unleavened bread for seven days. It is the bread of affliction. You should remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt in haste.

The priests who carried the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan River. They stood there until every thing that Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak to the people was carried out, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. During this time the people hurried to the other side of the river.

David asked Ahimelech: Do you have a spear or a sword here? I did not take either my spear or any other weapon because the king's business was urgent.

Saul and his men were on one side of the hill. They were separated from David and his men, who were on the other side. They were hurrying to get away from Saul and his men, who were closing in on them and were about to capture them.

So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two full wineskins, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.

Shimei son of Gera from the tribe of Benjamin and the town of Bahurim, hurried down with the people of Judah to meet King David.

One thousand people from Benjamin were with him. Ziba the servant of Saul's family rushed to the Jordan River across from the king. Ziba brought his fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work. He was stoned to death by all Israel. King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to escape to Jerusalem.

The men went to the Jordan. Along the road they saw the clothes and equipment that the Syrians had abandoned as they fled. Then they returned and reported to the king.

Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews to compel them by force to stop.

Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king and said: I have found a man of the captive children of Judah who will make the interpretation known to the king.

Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished. He hurried to speak to his counselors: / Did we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered: True O king.

He arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster).

He remembers his majestic ones. They stumble as they march. They hurry to the wall to prepare the barricade.

Mary traveled with haste to the city of Judah in the hill country.

They hurried to see the baby. They found Mary and Joseph. And they saw the baby lying in the manger.

At once she went to the king and asked: Will you give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

He hurried down to receive him joyfully.

Paul decided to sail past Ephesus so he might not spend time in Asia. He was in a hurry to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.