'Path' in the Bible

Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the Angel of the Lord took His stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

When the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing on the path with a drawn sword in His hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path.

But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the path with a drawn sword in His hand. Balaam knelt and bowed with his face to the ground.

Balaam said to the Angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in Your sight, I will go back.”

{In exactly the path} that Yahweh your God has commanded, you must go, so that you may live and {it will go well} for you and {you may live long} in the land that you will take possession of."

and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.

For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the Lord’s sight, infuriating Him with what your hands have made.”

"Look here: today I'm going down the path that everyone on earth takes, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not a single word of all of the good things that the LORD your God spoke about you has failed to happen. Everything has been fulfilled about you not one of them has failed.

But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord's commands, but they did not.

Joshua left those nations to test Israel. I wanted to see whether or not the people would carefully walk in the path marked out by the Lord, as their ancestors were careful to do."

She said, "Surely I will go with you; however, there will be no glory for you in {the path you are taking}, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into [the] hand of a woman." And Deborah stood up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.

The cows took a straight path along the road to Beth-shemesh. They stayed on the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn to the right or the left. The Philistine lords followed them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

And David riseth early in the morning, and leaveth the flock to a keeper, and lifteth up, and goeth, as Jesse commanded him, and he cometh in to the path, and to the force which is going out unto the rank, and they have shouted for battle;

and David riseth, and cometh in unto the place where Saul hath encamped, and David seeth the place where Saul hath lain, and Abner son of Ner, head of his host, and Saul is lying in the path, and the people are encamping round about him.

And David cometh -- and Abishai -- unto the people by night, and lo, Saul is lying sleeping in the path, and his spear struck into the earth at his pillow, and abner and the people are lying round about him.

Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa stopped, the man pulled him away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

Once he had removed Amasa from the path, everyone followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.

You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking up the path, some small boys came out of the city and harassed him, chanting, “Go up, baldy! Go up, baldy!”

You led them during the day by a pillar of cloud, and by a pillar of fire at night to provide light for them on the path they took.

You, in your great compassion, did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not leave them in daylight, in order to provide light for them on the path they took. Nor did the pillar of fire abandon them at night, in order to provide light for them and lead them on the path they took.

Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,whom God has hedged in?

“He removes intelligence and understanding from the leaders of the people of the earthAnd makes them wander and move blindly in a pathless waste.

For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,and a snare waits for him along the path.

He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

Will you continue on the ancient paththat wicked men have walked?

“My foot has held fast to His path;I have kept His way and not turned aside.

"He himself [is] swift on [the] water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.

How you have counseled the unwiseand thoroughly explained the path to success!

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

when He established a limit for the rainand a path for the lightning,

"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

Who ordained his path for him, and who has asked him, "You are wrong, aren't you?'

Can you take it to its homeland, since you know the path to his house?

Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

BOOK I(Psalms 1–41)How happy is the manwho does not follow the advice of the wickedor take the path of sinnersor join a group of mockers!

LORD, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your path straight before me.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

[I have] held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.

You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

Who is the man who fears the LORD? God will teach him the path he should choose.

Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

I will instruct you and teach you concerning the path you should walk; I will direct you with my eye.

May their path be dark and slippery, as the messenger of the LORD tracks them down.

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.He sets himself on a path that is not goodand does not reject evil.

Our hearts have not turned back;our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

He cleared a path for His anger.He did not spare them from deathbut delivered their lives to the plague.

How happy are those whose strength is in you, whose heart is on your path.

Righteousness will go before him to prepare a path for his steps. A Davidic prayer

I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes.I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path];It will not grasp hold of me.

He led them by the right pathto go to a city where they could live.

Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.

I find joy in the path of your decrees, as if I owned all kinds of riches.

Remove me from the path of deceit! Graciously give me your law!

I choose the path of faithfulness; I am committed to your regulations.

I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

I have kept my feet from every evil pathto follow Your word.

From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

See if there is any idolatrous tendency in me, and lead me in the reliable ancient path!

The proud hide a trap with ropes for me;they spread a net along the pathand set snares for me.Selah

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness;

In the way of wisdom I have instructed you; I have led you in the path of uprightness.

When you walk, your steps will not be impeded [for your path will be clear and open];And when you run, you will not stumble.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

The one who follows instruction is on the path to life,but the one who rejects correction goes astray.

The righteousness of the blameless clears his path,but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.

There is life in the path of righteousness,but another path leads to death. >

Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path;the one who hates correction will die.

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,but the path of the upright is a highway.

Foolishness brings joy to one without sense,but a man with understanding walks a straight path.

For the discerning the path of life leads upward,so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

A violent man entices his companion and leads him on a path that is not good.

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is obtained by following a righteous path.

Whoever wanders from the path of understanding will end up where the dead are gathered.

There are thorns and snares on the path of the crooked;the one who guards himself stays far from them.