'Sit' in the Bible

To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

“Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’?

For David himself says in the book of Psalms,‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at My right hand,

that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.