'Passing' in the Bible
As the Philistine leaders were passing in review with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men were passing in review behind them with Achish.
There were men passing by who saw the corpse thrown on the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and spoke about it in the city where the old prophet lived.
As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant marched out into the middle of the battle. Suddenly, a man turned aside and brought someone to me and said, ‘Guard this man! If he is ever missing, it will be your life in place of his life, or you will weigh out 75 pounds of silver.’
But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help!”
When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes. Then, as he was passing by on the wall, the people saw that there was sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
the birds of the sky,and the fish of the seathat pass through the currents of the seas.
Man is like a breath;his days are like a passing shadow.
The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing byis like an archer who wounds everyone.
I said: I will never see the Lord,the Lord in the land of the living;I will not look on humanity any longerwith the inhabitants of what is passing away.
Instead of your being deserted and hated,with no one passing through,I will make you an object of eternal pride,a joy from age to age.
Set them apart for war against her;rise up, let’s attack at noon.Woe to us, for the day is passing;the evening shadows grow long.
“Son of man, what is this proverb you people have about the land of Israel, which goes:The days keep passing by,and every vision fails?
“If I allow dangerous animals to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals,
I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.
But recently My people have risen uplike an enemy:You strip off the splendid robefrom those who are passing through confidently,like those returning from war.
Who is a God like You,removing iniquity and passing over rebellionfor the remnant of His inheritance?He does not hold on to His anger forever,because He delights in faithful love.