'Around' in the Bible

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. The Lord illumines the darkness around me.

Then they went on to Gilead and to the region of Tahtim Hodshi, coming to Dan Jaan and on around to Sidon.

Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh's daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

He built an extension all around the walls of the temple's main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord's temple and the hall of the palace.

When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar.

On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around.

Under the rim all the way around it were round ornaments arranged in settings 15 feet long. The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with "The Sea."

He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, with wreaths all around.

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

So they took a bull, as he had suggested, and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "Baal, answer us." But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped around on the altar they had made.

With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."

So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, 'Please let me live!'" Ahab replied, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.

Now an archer shot an arrow at random, and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, "Turn around and take me from the battle line, because I'm wounded."

They replied, "He was a hairy man and had a leather belt tied around his waist." The king said, "He is Elijah the Tishbite."

When he turned around and saw them, he called God's judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.

Elisha went back and walked around in the house. Then he got up on the bed again and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?" So he turned around and went away angry.

Then Elisha prayed, "O Lord, open his eyes so he can see." The Lord opened the servant's eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. He said to Ahaziah, "It's a trap, Ahaziah!"

He eliminated the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord's announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign.

The enemy broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king's garden. (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.

Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

They would spend the night in their posts all around God's sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

The battle was thick around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him.

He built up the city around it, from the terrace to the surrounding walls; Joab restored the rest of the city.

So David again asked God what he should do. This time God told him, "Don't march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees.

Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with "The Sea."

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

Lawless good-for-nothing men gathered around him and conspired against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man and could not resist them.

The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,

Now an archer shot an arrow at random and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, "Turn around and take me from the battle line, for I am wounded."

After this Manasseh built up the outer wall of the City of David on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites -- men, women, and children alike -- gathered around him. The people wept loudly.

There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.

When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

The singers were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites

and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

He loosens the bonds of kings and binds a loincloth around their waist.

His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

The countries are assembled all around you; take once more your rightful place over them!

Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.

The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

Yes, wild dogs surround me -- a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

The Lord's angel camps around the Lord's loyal followers and delivers them.

I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?"

For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?

Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

Our God approaches and is not silent; consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty, the Lord is robed, he wears strength around his waist. Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

The ropes of the wicked tighten around me, but I do not forget your law.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"

For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.

The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!

"I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved." I searched for him but I did not find him.

Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

Justice will be like a belt around his waist, integrity will be like a belt around his hips.

The Lord has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.

At that time the Lord announced through Isaiah son of Amoz: "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet." He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments and barefoot.

Later the Lord explained, "In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,

I will put your robe on him, tie your belt around him, and transfer your authority to him. He will become a protector of the residents of Jerusalem and of the people of Judah.

The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer -- priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.

Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live," says the Lord, "you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Look all around you! They all gather and come to you -- your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians.