'Down' in the Bible

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.

And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.

And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know it.

And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest all the people from every quarter.

And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

and she went and sat down over against him, a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth,

And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land;

And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came out to draw water.

And let it come to pass, that the maiden to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink, and who will say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also, be she whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and hereby I shall know that thou hast dealt kindly with my master.

And the maiden was very fair in countenance; a virgin, and no man had known her. And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

And she said, Drink, my lord! And she hasted and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink.

And the man stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah,

Before I ended speaking in my heart, behold, Rebecca came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder, and went down to the well, and drew water; and I said to her, Give me, I pray thee, to drink.

And she hasted and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. And I drank; and she gave the camels drink also.

And I stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah; and I blessed Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has led me the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

And it came to pass, when Abraham's servant heard their words, that he bowed down to the earth before Jehovah.

And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.

Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee.

And he lighted on a certain place, and lodged there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and made it his pillow, and lay down in that place.

Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves came round about and bowed down to my sheaf.

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

And he told it to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum going to carry it down to Egypt.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a man of Adullam whose name was Hirah.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy grain for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die.

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain out of Egypt.

And Joseph, he was the governor over the land he it was that sold the corn to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came and bowed down to him, the face to the earth.

But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;

but if thou do not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face, unless your brother be with you.

And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

And their father Israel said to them, If it is then so, do this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a gift: a little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth and ladanum, pistacia-nuts and almonds.

And the men took that gift, and took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

and said, Ah! my lord, we came indeed down at the first to buy food.

And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.

And they hasted and laid down every man his sack on the ground, and opened every man his sack.

And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he was still there; and they fell down before him to the ground.

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set mine eye on him.

And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.

And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.

it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, tarry not.

And tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and haste and bring down my father hither.

And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.

I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will also certainly bring thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand on thine eyes.

And Joseph brought them out from his knees, and bowed down with his face to the earth.

Judah as to thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's children will bow down to thee.

Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?

Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles.

And his brethren also went and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we are thy bondmen.