21 Bible Verses about Looking Intently At People
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Meanwhile, the man stood gazing at Rebekah in [reverent] silence, [waiting] to know if the Lord had made his trip successful or not.
So it happened, when they had come, he looked at Eliab [the eldest son] and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him.”
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With people [as far as it depends on them] it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Now when Jacob (Israel) learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another [in bewilderment and not taking action]?”
The disciples began looking at one another, puzzled and disturbed as to whom He could mean.
And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”
And his sister [Miriam] stood some distance away to find out what would happen to him.
And Peter, seeing this, said to the people, “You men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why are you staring at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit and led by Him, looked steadily at Elymas,
This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, and Paul looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be healed,
Then Paul, looking intently at the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court), said, “Kinsmen, I have lived my life before God with a perfectly good conscience until this very day.”
Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at his tent door, and look at Moses until he entered the tent.
“Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And gaze on King Solomon wearing the crown
With which his mother [Bathsheba] has crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
On the day of his gladness of heart.”
My eye has looked on my foes;
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.
“Now please look at me,
And see if I lie to your face [for you know that I would not].
(The Chorus)
“Return, return, O Shulammite;
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.”
“Do not gaze at me because I am deeply tanned,
[I have worked in] the sun; it has left its mark on me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me keeper of the vineyards,
But my own vineyard (my complexion) I have not kept.”
“Turn your [flashing] eyes away from me,
For they have confused and overcome me;
Your hair is like [the shimmering black fleece of] a flock of [Arabian] goats
That have descended from Mount Gilead.