'Place' in the Bible

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.

You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.

Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.

The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.

Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.

The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.

The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.

And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.

For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.

But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.

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.

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.

The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins