22 occurrences

'Lay' in the Bible

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Verse ConceptsApostates, PunishmentOffenceRighteous, TheStumblingAccountabilityResponsibility For Blood ShedWarning IndividualsGod HinderingIf You Turn From GodResponsible To WarnResponsibility

But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:

Verse ConceptsTying Up

You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

Verse ConceptsClayArts And Crafts, Types ofTabletsClay, Uses

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Verse ConceptsIronSigns From GodSeparation From GodPlatesIron ObjectsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltSubstitutionGod's People Sinning

Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownTying UpMan's Work Finished

I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Verse ConceptsBonesFate Of IdolatersIn Front

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Verse ConceptsFalse VisionsFalse WaysProphesying Lies

As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

Verse ConceptsIronTinMeltingGathered By GodFurnaces

Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Figurative UseBeing Evil From YouthTouching To HarmPeople Not AbandoningSpiritual HarlotrySex Between Nations

I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With The NationsGod Executes VengeanceRevenge

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

Verse ConceptsGod Executes VengeanceRevenge

They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Stones RejectedDrawbacks To RichesWood And Stone

Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Verse ConceptsembroideryOrnamentsThroneClothed With Bad ThingsPeople Stripping OffSitting In DejectionGroups TremblingSea DwellersOthers Going Down

I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

Verse ConceptsSalvation, Deliverance FromNo More FamineBeing Cleansed From SinGod Saves From Trouble

I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsSkinSinewsHuman SkinGod Giving BreathJoining Flesh And BonesThe Dead Are Raisedbreathingbreathprocessmuscles

Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Verse Conceptsdrawing near to GodGuilt OfferingSin OfferingAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingAccommodationsFood For Priests DefinedRegulations For Cereal OfferingsRegulations For The Sin Offering

When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodFormalityChanging ClothesPeople Stripping OffPriests Garmentspriests

When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

Verse ConceptsChanging ClothesPeople Stripping OffPriests GarmentsCourts Of The TempleOutside The House

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