'Place' in the Bible

In addition to this, take your place in the Holy Place according to the groupings of the ancestral households of your relatives consistent with the division of the descendants of Levi by their ancestral households.

After this, the people of the land installed Josiah's son Jehoahaz in Jerusalem as king to take his father's place.

The LORD God of their ancestors pleaded with them time and again through his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on the place of his residence,

"And Cyrus told him, "Take these utensils, go to Jerusalem, and carry them to the Temple, after the Temple of God has been built in its appropriate place.'

Though now, for a moment, grace has been shown from the LORD our God, leaving a few survivors to escape, and providing us a secure hold in his Holy Place, so that our God might enlighten us and give us relief from our servitude.

"If you rebel, I will scatter you among the nations but if you return to me, keeping my commands and doing them, even if your exiled people are in the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my Name.'

had prepared a great chamber for him, in the place where they used to place the grain offerings, incense, and vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil that was mandated for the descendants of Levi, the singers, the gate keepers, and the priests' offerings.

Then let the young woman who pleases the king rule in place of Vashti." This advice pleased the king, and he did this.

The young woman pleased him and gained his favor. He quickly provided her beauty treatments and gave her portions of food to her. He also assigned her seven suitable young women from the palace and transferred her and her young women to the best place in the harem.

The king loved Esther more than any of the other women, so he favored her and was kinder to her than he was to any of the other virgins. He put the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Indeed, if you are silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows but that you were brought to the kingdom for a time like this?"

Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar.

In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.

In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.

He doesn't return again to his house, and his place won't recognize him anymore."

if you are clean and upright, surely then, he'll act on your behalf and restore your rightful place.

If he is uprooted from his place, then it will deny him: "I never saw you.'

"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.

You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?"

"An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him.

In that place, the upright can reason with him; and I'll be acquitted once and for all by my judge."

He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

He sinks his shaft far from human habitations, in a place forgotten by explorers; they hang on harnesses as they swing back and forth.

a place where birds of prey never fly, and the eyes of the falcon have never seen.

He set in place ordinances for the rain; and determined the pathway for thunder that accompanies lightning.

Then he looked at wisdom, and fixed it in place; he established it, and also examined it.

He shatters valiant men without a need to investigate, and he raises others in their place.

"He strikes the wicked among them in a place where they can be seen

"Indeed, he drew you away from the brink of distress to a spacious place without constraints, filling your festive table with bountiful food.

Don't long for night, when people vanish in their place.

when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

buried them in the dust together, and sent them bound to that secret place,

Therefore the wicked will not escape judgment, nor will sinners have a place in the assembly of the righteous.

He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy surrounding him was dark waters and thick clouds.

He brought me out to a spacious place; he delivered me, for in me he takes delight.

You make a broad place for my steps, so my feet won't slip.

Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his Holy Place?

LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides.

For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of evil; He will hide me in a secluded chamber within his tent; He will place me on a high rock.

You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a sturdy place.

How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

You will hide them in the secret place of your presence, away from the conspiracies of men. You will hide them in your tent, away from their contentious tongues.

You are my hiding place; you will deliver me from trouble and surround me with shouts of deliverance. Interlude

He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.

Yet a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more. You will search for his place, but he will not be there.

He put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God! Many will watch and be in awe, and they will place their trust in the LORD.

For I place no confidence in my bow, nor will my sword deliver me.

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

Your sons will take the place of your ancestors, and you will set them up as princes in all the earth.

Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High.

Within her citadels God is known as a place of refuge.

God, the LORD, has spoken. He has summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting place.

From the end of the earth I will cry to you whenever my heart is overwhelmed. Place me on the rock that's too high for me.

Hurry! Look at the permanent ruins every calamity the enemy brought upon the Holy Place.

I will place his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.

So in my anger I declared an oath: "They are not to enter my place of rest."

Mountains rise up and valleys sink to the place you have ordained for them.

They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

Judah became his sanctuary and Israel his place of dominion.

Then I can answer the one who insults me, for I place my trust in your word.

I get up before dawn and cry for help; I place my hope in your word.

Place your hope in the LORD, Israel, both now and forever. A Song of Ascents

until I locate a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

The LORD made an oath to David from which he will not retreat: "One of your sons I will set in place on your throne.

Lift up your hands to the Holy Place and bless the LORD.

My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.

Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.

Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners.

He set them in place to last forever and ever; he gave the command and will not rescind it.

Hallelujah! Praise God in his Holy Place. Praise him in his great expanse.

By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will present to you a crown of beauty."

To the upright, the way of the LORD is a place of safety, but it's a place of ruin to those who practice evil.

The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing both the evil and the good.

A prudent servant will rule in place of a disgraceful son and will share in the inheritance among brothers.

That which was, now is; and that which will be, already is; and God examines what has already taken place.

All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.

I observed everyone who lives and walks on earth, along with the youth who will take the king's place.

Even if he lives a thousand years twice over without experiencing the best aren't all of them going to the same place?

So I watched the wicked being entombed. They used to come in and out of the Holy Place, but now they are forgotten in the city, where they used to work. This, too, is pointless.

The LORD is taking his place to argue his case; he's standing up to judge the people.

"But this is what the Lord GOD has to say: ""It won't take place. It won't ever happen.

"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.

Therefore I'll make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, at the time of his burning anger.

Many nations will take them and bring them to their land and their own place. The house of Israel will put those nations to conscripted labor in the LORD's land. They will take captive those who were their captors, and will rule continually over those who oppressed them.

When Moab appears, when he arrives upon the high place and comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail."

At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies from a tall and smooth-skinned people, from a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place that bears the name of the LORD.

"I'll place on his shoulder the key to the house of David what he opens, no one will shut, and what he shuts, no one will open.

I'll set him like a peg into a secure place; he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

At that time," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "the peg that was driven into a secure place will give way; it will be sheared and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.

For see, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will reveal the blood that has been shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain."

to whom he said, "This is the resting place, so give rest to the weary"' and, "This is the place of repose" - but they would not listen.

And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floods will overflow your hiding place.

When he has leveled its surface, he scatters caraway and sows cumin, doesn't he? He plants wheat in rows, barley in its designated place, and feed for livestock around its borders, doesn't he?

His breath is like an overflowing torrent, and it rises right up to the neck, to shake the nations in the sieve of destruction, and to place in the jaws of the nations a bit that leads them astray.

Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a hiding place from storms, like streams of water in the desert, in the shadow of a great rock in an exhausted land.

"Your rigging hangs loose; it cannot reliably hold the mast in its place, and the sail cannot spread out. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided even the lame will carry off plunder.

Watch this! I'm going to place an attitude within him, so that when he hears a certain report, he'll return to his own country. Then I'll have him cut down by the sword in his own land."