17 Bible Verses about People Who Delayed

And her brother and her mother said, Let the young woman stay with us perhaps ten days. After that she shall go.

For unless we had lingered, surely now we would have returned the second time.

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

And it happened on the fourth day when they arose early in the morning, he rose up to leave. And the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Comfort your heart with a piece of bread, and afterward go your way.

And they sat down and ate and drank, both of them together, for the girl's father had said to the man, Please be content, and stay all night, and let your heart be merry.

And when the man rose up to leave, his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.

And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to leave. And the girl's father said, Please comfort your heart. And they stayed till afternoon, and both of them ate.

And King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? For the word of all Israel has come to the king, to his house.

You are my brothers, and my flesh and my bone. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?

And he lingered, the angel laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters (Jehovah being merciful to him), and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.

The king answered and said, For I know that you surely want to gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.

And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered themselves to Aaron. And they said to him, Up! Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

The mother of Sisera looked out a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariot wait?

And Amasa went to gather Judah. But he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

And the people waited for Zacharias and marveled that he stayed so long in the temple.

Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.

And having heard these things, Felix put them off, knowing more accurately of the Way, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch has come down, I will examine the things concerning you.