'Ground' in the Bible

When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell down with their faces to the ground.

And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

but the word of the Lord came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

David told the entire assembly: "Praise the Lord your God!" So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.

Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil."

In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

then Thou dost hear from the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel, and caused them to turn back unto the ground that Thou hast given to them, and to their fathers.

so that they fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

then I will tear them up by the roots from the ground that I had given them! And as for this Temple that I have set apart for my name, I will throw it out of my sight and make it the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!

And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

When Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the large army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; nobody had escaped.

and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.

Uzziah rested with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the burial ground of the kings’ cemetery, for they said, “He has a skin disease.” His son Jotham became king in his place.

and I add not to turn aside the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers, only, if they watch to do all that I have commanded them -- to all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.'

They tore down the altars of Baals in his presence. He chopped down the incense altars that stood high above them. He broke into pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast images, ground them to dust, and scattered the residue on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

Now while Ezra was praying and confessing in tears, having prostrated himself to the ground before the Temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelis men, women, and children gathered around him. Indeed, the people were crying bitterly.

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

You divided the sea before them,and they crossed through it on dry ground.You hurled their pursuers into the depthslike a stone into churning waters.

They conquered fortified cities and fertile ground, possessing houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, with vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were satiated, and were well nourished, delighting themselves in your great goodness.

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

“He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;And his grain will not bend down to the ground.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Iron is taken from the ground,and copper is smelted from ore.

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,in places unknown to those who walk above ground.Suspended far away from people,the miners swing back and forth.

"While the ground produces food, underneath it is torn up and burning hot,

“From want and famine they are gauntWho gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

She abandons her eggs on the groundand lets them be warmed in the sand.

He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

"{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.

may an enemy pursue and overtake me;may he trample me to the groundand leave my honor in the dust.Selah

The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

They advance against me; now they surround me.They are determinedto throw me to the ground.

I ground them like wind-swept dust; I emptied them out like dirt in the street.

My foot stands on level ground;I will praise the Lord in the assemblies.

For we have sunk down to the dust;our bodies cling to the ground.

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

He turned [the] sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him.

I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.

May he be like the rain that descends on mown grass, like showers sprinkling on the ground.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land.

They were destroyed at En-dor;they became manure for the ground.

Truth sprouts up from the ground, while righteousness looks down from the sky.

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand [his ground] in the battle.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom,The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem,Who said “Down, down [with her]To her very foundation.”

As when the one plows and breaks open the ground [and the soil scatters behind him],Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol [by the injustices of the wicked].

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Teach me to do Your will,for You are my God.May Your gracious Spiritlead me on level ground.

When his breath leaves him,he returns to the ground;on that day his plans die.

The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,But it is swept away by injustice.

Thistles had come up everywhere,weeds covered the ground,and the stone wall was ruined.

Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.

For no one knows [whether] the spirit of a human ascends [to heaven] and [whether] the spirit of the beast descends to the ground!

I have seen slaves on horses,but princes walking on the ground like slaves.

Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don't spare them!

Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord, from his royal splendor!

People will go into caves in the rocksand holes in the ground,away from the terror of the Lordand from His majestic splendor,when He rises to terrify the earth.

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,And planted it with the choicest vine (the people of Judah).And He built a tower in the center of it;And also hewed out a wine vat in it.Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,But it produced only worthless ones.

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

And I say, 'Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, 'Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

I am not angry,but if it produces thorns and briers for Me,I will fight against it, trample it,and burn it to the ground.

Look, the sovereign master sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

It must be ground; one cannot keep threshing it forever. Even if he drives his cart and horses over it, he cannot crush it.

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

for the ground of my peoplegrowing thorns and briers,indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.