17 Bible Verses about People Who Delayed

Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."

If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice."

Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.

And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go."

So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry."

And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again.

And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl's father said, "Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines." So they ate, both of them.

And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: "Say to the elders of Judah, 'Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?

You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

The king answered and said, "I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is firm--

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

"Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?'

So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him.

And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple.

So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, "When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case."