'Quickly' in the Bible

Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, 'This is what the Lord says, "I have designated you as king over Israel."' Then open the door and run away quickly!"

Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.

Some of the Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the desert. They were warriors who were trained for battle; they carried shields and spears. They were as fierce as lions and could run as quickly as gazelles across the hills.

Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the temple of your God as needed year by year, and do it quickly.”However, the Levites did not hurry.

And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because Jehovah had smitten him.

Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done for them, for it had been done quickly.

They roasted the Passover lambs with fire according to regulation. They boiled the holy sacrifices in pots, kettles, and bowls; and they quickly brought them to the lay people.

But he sent representatives to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against those with whom I am at war; and God has given me orders to go forward quickly: keep out of God's way, for he is with me, or he will send destruction on you.

As soon as a copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, to Shimshai the scribe, and to their colleagues, they traveled quickly to Jerusalem and compelled the Jews to cease by force of arms.

And may the God who causes his Name to rest there destroy any king or people who might attempt to destroy this Temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree. Let it be carried out quickly.

Because of what King Darius had mandated, Tattenai, the Trans-Euphrates Governor, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues carried out his orders quickly.

Whoever refuses to practice the law of your God and the law of the king is to see judgment executed quickly, whether to death, banishment, confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.

The king responded, "What is it you are seeking?" Then I quickly prayed to the God of heaven

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 couriers went out quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered.

The king responded, "Bring Haman quickly so we may do what Esther has requested." So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said.”

And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

While they were still talking to him, the king's eunuchs arrived, and they quickly took him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

The king's scribes were quickly summoned -- in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. They wrote out everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia -- a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all -- to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.

The couriers, mounted on the royal steeds, left quickly, urged on by the king's command. The edict was also issued in Susa the capital.

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

He traps the wise in their craftinessso that the plans of the deceptiveare quickly brought to an end.

"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

"If I've lived my life in the company of vanity, or run quickly to embrace deception,

for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm, when he fled from his son Absalom.

And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

But You, Lord, don’t be far away.My strength, come quickly to help me.

Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly.Be a rock of refuge for me,a mountain fortress to save me.

For they wither quickly like grassand wilt like tender green plants.

My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

Come quickly and help me, Lord, my deliverer. To the Director: To Jeduthun. A Davidic Psalm.

"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

As soon as they see, they are shocked; they are terrified, they quickly retreat.

I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest."

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

So your loved ones may be delivered, save us by your power and answer us quickly!

Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.

Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly stretch out her hands unto God.

Don’t hide Your face from Your servant,for I am in distress.Answer me quickly!

Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.

As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

God, do not be distant from me. My God, come quickly to help me.

How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

Do not hold past sins against us;let Your compassion come to us quickly,for we have become weak.

I would quickly subdue their enemiesand turn My hand against their foes.”

Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

Our lives last seventy yearsor, if we are strong, eighty years.Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

If the LORD had not been my helper, I would have quickly become silent.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of trouble.Listen closely to me;answer me quickly when I call.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

But they quickly forgot his deeds and did not wait for his counsel.

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.

Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,When their wrath was kindled against us;

Let not the slanderer become established in the land. May evil quickly hunt down the violent man.

A psalm of David. O Lord, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!

Answer me quickly, Lord;my spirit fails.Don’t hide Your face from me,or I will be like thosegoing down to the Pit.

Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.

He sends out his command to the earth, making his word go forth quickly.

For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

The [arrogant] fool’s anger is quickly known [because he lacks self-control and common sense],But a prudent man ignores an insult.

Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly and without self-control,And a man of wicked schemes is hated.

The quickly angered man stirs up contention, but anyone who controls his temper calms a dispute.

Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with [his] feet {misses the mark}.

An inheritance quickly obtained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

It is a trap for a person to declare quickly, "This is sacred," and only later to have second thoughts about the vows.

A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

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

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Because the sentence against a criminal act is not carried out quickly, the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit crime.

The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

Come quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

If the Lord who commands armies had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

to those who say:“Let Him hurry up and do His work quicklyso that we can see it!Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take placeso that we can know it!”

He raises a signal flag for the distant nationsand whistles for them from the ends of the earth.Look—how quickly and swiftly they come!

And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.

Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvationAnd have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—Therefore you plant lovely plantsAnd set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.

Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.