'Earth' in the Bible

Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.

Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."

It happened that when David had come to the top [of the ascent], where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head.

Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, "All is well." He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!"

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.'

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!"

All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them.

Solomon said, "If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of him shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die."

"I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

and he said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh."

that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is none else.

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.

For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"

It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant."

Naaman said, "If not, then, please let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone."

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day.

Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can't be moved.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns!"

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 'You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

and he said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

"But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars."

When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.'"

"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Thus they returned us answer, saying, "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.