'Quiet' in the Bible

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

The Lord will fight for you; you must be quiet.”

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to Israel. They said, "Be quiet and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.

As a result, the land was quiet for 40 years. Then Kenaz' son Othniel died.

But he went back once he reached the carved images at Gilgal. He said to Eglon, "I have a secret message for you, O king." Eglon said, "Be quiet!" All his attendants left.

As a result, Moab was subdued under the control of Israel, and the land remained quiet for 80 years.

Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?

"May all of your enemies perish like this, LORD! But may those who love him be like the ascending sun in its strength!" Then the land enjoyed quiet for 40 years.

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

They told him, “Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

"Be quiet!" Samuel said. "I'll tell you what the LORD told me last night." Saul told him, "Speak."

Her brother Absalom said to her: “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do ye know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we keep quiet without taking it out of the hand of the king of Syria?

Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?”He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?”He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

But then they told each other, "We're not doing the right thing. This is a day of good news, but if we keep quiet until morning, we're sure to be punished! So let's leave and go tell the king's household!"

And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

But a son will be born to you; he will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies, for his name will be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel during his reign.

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

And he buildeth cities of bulwarks in Judah, for the land hath quiet, and there is no war with him in these years, because Jehovah hath given rest to him.

So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.

And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

I accused them, "To the best of our ability, we've been buying back our fellow Jews who had been sold to foreigners. Even now you're selling your fellow countrymen, only for them to be sold back to us!" They kept quiet and never spoke a word.

Then the Levites quieted all the people saying, "Be quiet, for this day is holy. Do not grieve."

"Don't imagine that because you are part of the king's household you will be the one Jew who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father's household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!"

Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn't have been sufficient to bother the king."

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

A figure stood there,but I could not recognize its appearance;a form loomed before my eyes.I heard a quiet voice:

Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;

If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

Be quiet, and I will speak.Let whatever comes happen to me.

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

“Because he knew no quiet within him,He does not retain anything he desires.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

because I dreaded [the] great multitude, and [the] contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of [the] doorway?

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me.Be quiet, and I will speak.

If not, then listen to me;be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.

When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,That is, in regard to both nation and man?—

Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

"I will not keep quiet [concerning] its limbs or concerning [the] extent of its might and [the] gracefulness of its frame.

He lets me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.

so that {I} may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds [in] his way, about a man making plots.

I was speechless and quiet;I kept silent, even from speaking good,and my pain intensified.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

My soul, be quiet before God, for from him comes my hope.

Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

From heaven You pronounced judgment.The earth feared and grew quiet

A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry.

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.

The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

A fool gives all his breath, but [the] wise holds back in quiet.

A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

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

And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:How the oppressor has quieted down,and how the raging has become quiet!

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

For this is what the LORD told me: "I will remain quiet and watch in my dwelling place like dazzling heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said:“You will be delivered by returning and resting;your strength will lie in quiet confidence.But you are not willing.”

The result of righteousness will be peace;the effect of righteousnesswill be quiet confidence forever.

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol [for] the rest of my years."

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.

“I have kept silent from ages past;I have been quiet and restrained Myself.But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,gasping breathlessly.

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.

“Among the smooth stones of the ravineIs your portion, they (the idols) are your lot;Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,You have offered a grain offering.Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?