14 occurrences

'Pile' in the Bible

“I will pile disasters on them;I will use up My arrows against them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfGod Can Harm People

and raised over him a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

He hung the body of the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

After Boaz ate, drank, and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the pile of barley. Then she went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionLying Down To RestEating And Drinking

He raises the poor from the dustand lifts the needy from the garbage pile.He seats them with noblemenand gives them a throne of honor.For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;He has set the world on them.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsEarth, Belonging To GodDust, Figurative UseGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPrincesThroneGloryGod And The PoorMetaphorical PillarsGod Lifting PeopleRubbishGod Helps The PoorThe poordust

When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” the king said, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

Verse ConceptsTwo Of Body Parts

His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.He looks for a home among the stones.

Verse Conceptsculture

For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,a fortified city, into ruins;the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;it will never be rebuilt.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFortificationsFortressesTownNeverDestruction Of Cities

For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.But Moab will be trampled in his placeas straw is trampled in a dung pile.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

Come against her from the most distant places.Open her granaries;pile her up like mounds of grainand completely destroy her.Leave her no survivors.

Verse ConceptsBabylonGrainDestruction Of BabylonPeople Destroying Foreign Nationsborders

Take the choicest of the flockand also pile up the fuel under it.Bring it to a boiland cook the bones in it.”

Verse ConceptsHot ThingsFirewoodSheep And Goats

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:Woe to the city of bloodshed!I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.

Verse ConceptsBig ThingsResponsibility For Blood ShedWoe To Israel And Jerusalem

Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!Cook the meat welland mix in the spices!Let the bones be burned!

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodBrothHerbs And SpicesBonesBurning PeopleFirewood

Bible Theasaurus

Batch (10 instances)
Bundle (12 instances)
Mound (28 instances)
Piling (4 instances)
Plenty (59 instances)
Stack (8 instances)
Throng (35 instances)

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