'Position' in the Bible

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

And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.

Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.

So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.

And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.

And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.

O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea.

The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?

And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.

I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:

So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.

To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.

And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position.

What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come.

And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,

But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?

But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.

Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

Whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, so that you may have knowledge of our position, and that he may give comfort to your hearts.

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.

For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.

And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

And the angel which I saw taking his position on the sea and on the earth, put up his right hand to heaven,