28 Bible Verses about Staying Temporarily

"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

We have plenty of straw and feed," she added, "and room for you to spend the night."

He said, "Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant's house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning." "No," they replied, "we'll spend the night in the town square."

He said to his servant, "Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."

They stopped there and decided to spend the night in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, "I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

Live with him for a little while until your brother's rage subsides.

Laban replied, "I'd rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me."

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

but they urged him, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done." So he went in to stay with them.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she persuaded us.

At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.

When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money -- the full amount -- in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.

Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

They called out to ask if Simon, known as Peter, was staying there as a guest.

Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.'

and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade).