'Ready' in the Bible

Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone."

And he said to the people, "Be ready {for the third day}. Do not go near to a woman."

And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain.

And Aaron shall place his two hands on the living goat's head, and he shall confess over it all the {Israelites}' iniquities and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat's head, and he shall send [it] away into the desert {with} a man [standing] ready.

but we ourselves will become armed [and] ready before the {Israelites} until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

"And I charged you [all] at that time [when I] said, "Yahweh has given you--to [all of] you--this land to possess. All the {warriors} shall cross over, ready to fight, before your brothers, the {Israelites}.

And he commanded them, saying, "Look, you are to lay an ambush against the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city and be ready.

So Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David. And he fell on his face and did obeisance. David said, "Mephibosheth," and he said, "{I am ready to serve you}."

Then the servants of the king said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king chooses, {your servants are ready to act}!"

But if he says, 'I take no pleasure in you,' then {I am ready}. Let him do to me that which [is] good in his eyes.

It happened at the moment he heard this word, he and the kings [were] drinking in the {tents}. He said to his servants, "Get ready [to attack]." So they got ready [to attack] the city.

Then Joram said, "Get ready," so he got his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel went out, and Ahaziah king of Judah, each with his chariot. They went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the tract of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.

And Uzziah had troops {trained and ready for war} in divisions according to the number of their enrollment at the hand of Jeuel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah of the king's commanders.

A copy of the edict [was] presented [as] law in every province making [it] known to all the people to be ready for that day.

A copy of the {edict} [was] to be given [as] law in each province to inform all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves from their enemies.

{Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.

"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.

Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.

His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

he makes [it] ready, and [the] righteous will wear [it], and [the] innocent will divide [the] silver.

"Look, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open.

For I [am] ready to stumble, and my pain [is] before me continually.

Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

For [it is] pleasant if you guard them {within you}; together they will be ready upon your lips.

Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.

For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood {abundant}. The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.

Be ready, and prepare {yourselves}, you and all of your assembly, the assembling around you, and you must be for them as a guard.

Now if you are ready so that {when} you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, [the] trigon, [the] harp and [the] drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, [that will be good]. But if you do not worship it, {immediately} you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and {who is the god} who will rescue you from my hands?"