'Home' in the Bible

His children are far from deliverance; they'll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.

You'll know that your home is secure; when you search your possessions, and nothing will be missing.

Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors.

"Where can wisdom be found? Where is understanding's home?

"I used to say: "I will die in my home. I'm going to live as many days as there are grains of sand on the shore.

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

Let me make my home in your tent forever; let me hide under the shelter of your wings. Interlude

Your statutes are my songs, no matter where I make my home.

She is brazen and defiant her feet don't remain at home.

because my husband isn't home. He left on a long trip.

He took a fist full of cash and he'll return home in a month."

Deceit is at home in the heart of those who plan evil, but those who promote peace rejoice.

Whoever listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise.

The person who repays good with evil will never see evil leave his home.

Seldom set foot in your neighbor's home; otherwise, he'll grow weary and hate you.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders away from his home.

At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.

King Sennacherib broke camp, retreated, returned home to Nineveh, and remained there.

The carpenter measures it with a line; he traces its shape with a stylus, then fashions it with planes and shapes it with a compass. He makes the idol like a human figure, with human beauty, to be at home in a shrine.

They sent for Jeremiah and took him from the courtyard of the guard. They handed him over to Ahikam's son Gedaliah, the grandson of Shaphan, to take him home. So he remained among the people.

Look, LORD, how distressed I am; all my insides are churning. My heart is troubled within me, because I vigorously rebelled. Outside the sword brings loss of life, while at home death rules.

Ocean-going fleets carried your merchandise." "How filled you were! How glorious you were, at home in the heart of the sea!

You'll come in from your home in the remotest parts of the north. You'll come with many nations, all of them riding along on horses. You'll be a huge, combined army.

"I'm also going to incinerate Magog, along with those who are settled down and at home in the islands. That's when they'll learn that I am the LORD.

Then Daniel went home and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah about the king's command.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was resting in my home and prospering in my palace.

It will be like a man who runs from a lion, only to encounter a bear; or who comes home, leans his hand against a wall, and a serpent bites him!

So they interrogated him: "Tell us, why has this trouble come upon us? What's your occupation? Where'd you come from? What's your home country? What's your nationality?"

So he prayed to the LORD, "LORD, isn't this what I said while I was still in my home country? That's why I fled previously to Tarshish, because I knew you're a compassionate God, slow to anger, overflowing with gracious love, and reluctant to send trouble.

The LORD will incite them to terror, because he will cause all the gods of the earth to waste away. They will worship him, every person in his own home, including even the coastlands of the nations."

At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. Indeed, I will give you a good reputation, making you praiseworthy among all of the people of the world, when I restore your prosperity before your eyes," says the LORD.

"You turned away in pursuit of abundance, but look at how little you found! What you did manage to bring home, I blew away! And why?' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "It's because of my house! It lies in ruins while each of you runs off to his own house!

"Sir, my servant is lying at home paralyzed and in terrible pain."

But so you will know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"" he told the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

So the man got up and went home.

While he was having dinner at Matthew's home, many tax collectors and sinners arrived and began eating with Jesus and his disciples.

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he left there to teach and preach in their home towns.

Then it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.' When it arrives, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order.

But Jesus told them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown and in his own home." He did not perform many miracles there because of their unbelief.

He answered, "Yes." When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first and asked him, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects, or from foreigners?"

While Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper,

Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home.

"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!"

Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

But Jesus wouldn't let him. Instead, he told him, "Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you."

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.

Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

He told them repeatedly, "Whenever you go into a home, stay there until you leave that place.

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.

Then Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't go into the village or tell anyone in the village."

When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive the spirit out?"

Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples, "What were you arguing about on the road?"

Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel

It's like a man who went on a trip. As he left home, he put his servants in charge, each with his own work, and he ordered the doorkeeper to be alert.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

When the days of his service were over, he went home.

She went into Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth.

Now Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then went back home.

When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

But so you'll know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"." he told the paralyzed man, "I say to you: Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

So the man immediately stood up in front of them and picked up what he had been lying on. Then he went home, praising God.

Later, Levi gave a large banquet at his home for Jesus. A large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So he went to the Pharisee's home and took his place at the table.

There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume

"Go home and tell what God has done for you." So the man left and kept proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

Just then a synagogue leader by the name of Jairus arrived. He fell at Jesus' feet and kept begging him to come to his home,

While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader's home and told him, "Your daughter is dead. Stop bothering the teacher anymore."

When you visit a home and stay there, and go out from there,

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home."

Now as they were traveling along, Jesus went into a village. A woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'

When it gets back home, it finds it swept clean and put in order.

Then he goes home, calls his friends and neighbors together, and says to them, "Rejoice with me, because I've found my lost sheep!'

The servant told him, "Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.'

Then he told the man, "Get up, and go home! Your faith has made you well."

I tell you, this man, rather than the other one, went down to his home justified, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of God

Zacchaeus came down quickly and was glad to welcome him into his home.

Then Jesus told him, "Today salvation has come to this home, because this man is also a descendant of Abraham,

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. He stooped down and saw only the linen cloths. Then he went home, wondering about what had happened.

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

Now he was returning home, seated in his chariot, and reading from the prophet Isaiah.

The Lord told him, "Get up, go to the street called Straight, and in the home of Judas look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. At this very moment he's praying.

He was a devout man who feared God, as did everyone in his home. He gave many gifts to the poor among the people and always prayed to God.

The men replied, "Cornelius, a centurion and an upright and God-fearing man who is respected by the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his home to hear what you have to say."

Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my home. All at once a man in radiant clothes stood in front of me

so send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, to come to you. He is a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker, by the sea.'

Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

When she and her family were baptized, she urged us, "If you are convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home." And she continued to insist that we do so.

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and everyone in his home.