18 occurrences

'Rolling' in the Bible

Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

Verse ConceptsRollingPossessing Sheep

Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

Verse ConceptsMantlesCloaksMiracles Of ElijahDivision Of WatersOuter GarmentsDry LandWaters Divided

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

Verse ConceptsRumblingThunder Showing God's Presence

The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

Verse ConceptsearthquakesEarth, Judgment OfTheophanyWhirlwindsShakingTremblingLight In The Worldfootstepsfootprints

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

Verse ConceptsWorldly DilemmasStormsStaggeringdrunkards

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

Verse ConceptsAshesLamentingSuddenlyThose Who DestroyAshes Of HumiliationOthers Mourning

See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers

Verse ConceptsStormsWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.

Verse ConceptsStaggeringGod Making Drunk

Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

Verse ConceptsStormsWhirlwindsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.

Verse ConceptsdefianceVomittingGod Making Drunk

See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of The WorldGod OpposingSeven Mountains

And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

Verse ConceptsSorrowSprinklingVoicesDust On The HeadAshes Of Humiliation

But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Verse ConceptsGod, Will OfRighteousness, Of BelieversEternal BlessingRiversSportsFloodsfairnesswaterfalls

For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanMonotonySevere AfflictionsThrowing PeopleSinkingIn The Heart Of The SeaSwampedDeep Seaswaterfalls

Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournDo Not Tell

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