'Long' in the Bible

And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

Then Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom and said, Long life to the king, long life to the king!

Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!

And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon!

And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!

And Shimei said to the king, Very well! as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And for a long time Shimei went on living in Jerusalem.

And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time.

Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.

And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went out and took their places facing them a long way off, while the two of them were by the edge of Jordan.

Then he made the king's son come out, and put the crown on him and the arm-bands, and made him king, and put the holy oil on him; and they all, making sounds of joy with their hands, said, Long life to the king.

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

Then certain men went and gave David word of what had been done to them. And he sent out with the purpose of meeting them; for the men were greatly shamed. And the king said, Keep where you are at Jericho till your hair is long again, and then come back.

And he came to his end after a long life, full of days and great wealth and honour; and Solomon his son became king in his place.

And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.

And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

(For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

Then they made the king's son come out, and they put the crown on his head and gave him the arm-bands and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons put the holy oil on him and said, Long life to the king.

And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.

He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.

Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.

And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.

In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day.

May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

I have long had knowledge that your unchanging word is for ever.

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.

And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?