156 occurrences in 9 translations

'Stands' in the Bible

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master's son, just as the Lord has decided."

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGiving In Marriage

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take other wives besides them, though no one is watching us, keep in mind that God stands as a witness between you and me."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersPolygamyWitnesses, LegalAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodPeople Possibly Doing Evil

Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day.

Verse ConceptsObelisksPlaces To This Day

if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity {toward his full recovery}."

Verse ConceptsInjuryLossHabitual Getting UpUnpunishedWalking With A StaffRecovery

"Aaron's sons, the priests, are to bring the blood and sprinkle it around the altar that stands at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Cut In PiecesSkinning

Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness.

Verse ConceptsWorship, Elements OfLaying On Of HandsAnimal Sacrifices, As A Type Of ChristHands On HeadsDriving Out AnimalsLaying Hands On SacrificesSin Confessed

"Instruct the Israelis that whenever a man or woman does something contained in the list of the sins of man, thereby acting treacherously against the LORD, then that person stands guilty.

Verse ConceptsMan And Woman

They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyProtection Day And NightBeing Face To Face With GodObelisksGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireHearing About GodGiving InformationGod Is Among You

You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeStandingMan AvengingDeath Of A Family Member

Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofGuidance, From Godly PeopleInexperienceEncourage Others!

"If a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreams and he gives to you a sign or wonder,

Verse ConceptsRevelation, In OtEnticersMisleading DreamsRevelation Through Visions And Dreams

The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialDeath penaltyHigh Priest, In OtIrreverenceJudgesMinistry, Nature OfSin, Nature OfStubbornnessAnarchyDeath Penalty For Violence

Then the elders of his city will summon him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to marry her,’

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

Verse ConceptsFuture Generations

They raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the valley of Achor to this day.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until dusk, and at sunset Joshua ordered his body brought down from the tree and laid at the entrance to the gate of the town. There he raised over it a large mound of stones, which stands there to this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.

Verse ConceptsGatesWaiting At Gates

He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the assembly.

Verse ConceptsAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawMan AvengingUnintentional

But if the land you possess is defiled, cross over to the land the Lord possesses where the Lord’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But don’t rebel against the Lord or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelRebellion Against God, Nature OfThe Altar Of The LordBuilding AltarsGod Living In The TabernacleUnclean Things

May we never rebel against the LORD today by building an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifice to replace the altar of the LORD our God which stands before his Tent."'"

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingThe Altar Of The Lord

The descendants of Reuben and the descendants of Gad named the altar "Witness," because they claimed, "It stands as a witness between us that the LORD is God."

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is GodThings As WitnessesThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

So Gideon built an altar right there to the LORD and called it "The LORD is peace." (To this very day it still stands in Ophrah, which belongs to the descendants of Abiezer.)

Verse ConceptsCommemorationNames Of GodBuilding AltarsGod Of PeaceNames Involving GodNature Of GodPeople Naming ThingsPlaces To This Daygideon

When they arrived, Samuel noticed Eliab and said to himself, "Surely, here before the Lord stands his chosen king!"

Verse ConceptsWorthinessLooking Intently At PeopleLeadership Qualities

Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofBlessings, To AbrahamPeople Of God, In OtUncountableMany In Israel

Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames,

Verse ConceptsDesign

[There were] four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these [were] under the basin, and the supports [were] decorated on each side [with] wreaths.

Verse ConceptsBasinsWheelsFour SupportsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Four of the wheels [were] underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels [were] on the stands. The height of each wheel [was] a cubit and a half.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

On top of each stand was a round opening three-quarters of a foot deep; there were also supports and frames on top of the stands.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsSame Sizes

He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin.

Verse ConceptsWashingWeights And Measures, LiquidTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureMeans Of PurifyingBronze Items For The Tabernacle

He set five of the stands on the right side of the Temple and five on the left side of the Temple. He set the bronze sea on the right side of the Temple eastward facing the south.

Verse ConceptsFive Things

Then King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, and removed the laver from them; he also took down the sea from the bronze oxen which were under it and put it on a pavement of stone.

Verse ConceptsBasinsSeaMeans Of Purifying

The Chaldeans also broke into pieces and carried back to Babylon the bronze pillars that stood in the LORD's Temple, along with the stands and the bronze sea that used to be in the LORD's Temple.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonSeaSacrilegeBreaking ContainersPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing BronzeBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The bronze contained in the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had crafted for the LORD's Temple could not be inventoried for weight.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing BronzeTwo Parts Of Constructions

Tremble in his presence, all the earth! Surely the inhabited world stands firm it cannot be moved.

Verse ConceptsEarth Being Fixed And ImmovableFlat Earth

And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest under him.

And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground [them] to powder and sprinkled [the dust] over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them.

he broke down the altars and the Asherahs and crushed the idols, grinding [them] to dust, and he cut down all the incense stands in all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCrushing

Uzai's son Palal carried on repairs over against the angle of the wall at the tower that stands out from the king's upper palace, which is located by the royal guard's court. Next to him, Parosh's son Pedaiah carried on repairs.

Verse ConceptsThe Angle

(Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed GatesTemple Assistants

After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold, also, the gallows fifty cubits high, that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it!

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsAbasement, Examples OfDimensions Of Other Things

It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

Verse ConceptsVoices

When he is brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb.

what could I do when God stands up to judge?How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?

Verse ConceptsConfrontationEmployersAnswering God

He puts my feet in the stocks;He stands watch over all my paths.”

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineGod Is UnchangeableGod Seeing All People

It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

Verse ConceptsClaySealsHoly Spirit, Types OfClay, UsesSealing Things

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example],Nor stand in the path of sinners,Nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of scoffers (ridiculers).

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsFeetEvil Waysadvisersevil, believers' responses toMockerySinnersUngodlinessWalkingInfidelity To GodGangsEvil AssociationsWarnings Of Evil AssociationsSitting In FellowshipA Mans CharacterBlessed In ServiceRejoicing Over JusticeScoffersGraduationmockers

My foot stands on level ground;I will praise the Lord in the assemblies.

Verse ConceptsStaying StrongPraising God In Public Worship

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

Kings’ daughters are among your honored women;the queen, adorned with gold from Ophir,stands at your right hand.

Verse ConceptsBridesGoldPrincesQueensMarriage, The BrideRight SidesWomen's BeautyGodly Womanjewelryroyalty

From heaven you declared judgment. The earth stands in awe and is quiet

Verse ConceptsQuietnessMotionlessnessStaying PutTerror Of GodGod Speaks From Heaven

A psalm of Asaph. God stands in the assembly of El; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeMen As GodsJudgmentsDivinityJudging Others Actions

His foundation is on the holy mountain.

I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."

Verse ConceptsStabilityGod Is UnchangeableGod's Faithfulnessdevotion

Who stands up for me against the wicked?Who takes a stand for me against evildoers?

Verse ConceptsSupportwickedness

for the LORD is good and his gracious love stands forever. His faithfulness remains from generation to generation. A Davidic Psalm

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfGod, The EternalFaithfulnessMercyEverlastingGod's TrustworthinessGod's FaithfulnessGoodnessloversdevotion

Your faithfulness is for all generations;You established the earth, and it stands firm.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfGod's attitude towards peopleFaithfulnessGod's Faithfulness

Jerusalem stands built up, a city knitted together.

Verse ConceptsNations Unitedreuniting

A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

Verse ConceptsAdultsOccupationsProperty, HousesBuilding CitiesSolomon, Character OfWatchfulness, DivineWatchmanWork, Divine And HumanProtection, From GodWakefulnessBuildersBuilding HousesUseless ReligionProtecting Your Family

Look to the right and see:no one stands up for me;there is no refuge for me;no one cares about me.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessLonelinessNeglecting PeopleRefugeRight SidesMissing Someoneempathysoulrecognition

On top of the highest places along the road she stands where the roads meet.

Verse ConceptsPaths

After they're overthrown, the wicked won't be found, but the house of the righteous stands firm.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstHomeRighteous, ThePeople Passing AwaygaysProtecting Your Family

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever.

Verse ConceptsEternal WorldPermanenceThe EarthChange And GrowthSeasons Changing

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, looking through the windows, gazing through the lattice.

Verse ConceptsYoung LoversDeer Etc.Deer

The Beloved to the Maidens: My beloved is dazzling and ruddy; he stands out in comparison to all other men.

Verse ConceptsHandsome Men

But my dove, my perfect one, stands alone [above them all];She is her mother’s only daughter;She is the pure child of the one who bore her.The maidens saw her and called her blessed and happy,The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

Verse ConceptsUnique IndividualsPraising Specific PeopleMan's FavouriteBeing Unique

The Lord rises to argue the caseand stands to judge the people.

Verse ConceptsGod, As Judge

When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of [the] forest because of [the] wind.

Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDGentiles, In OtBanner, Figurative UseHope, As ConfidenceMission, Of IsraelJesus Christ, KingChrist, Names ForMessianic PropheciesFlags

“Howl, O gate; cry, O city!Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;For smoke comes out of the north,And there is no straggler in his ranks and no one stands detached [in Hezekiah’s battalions].

Verse ConceptsNorthSmokeOut Of The NorthOrderly ArmysmokingSmoke Used Poetically

He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,Even the Asherim and incense stands.

Verse ConceptsFingersAltars, Pagan

For the Lord's power will make this mountain secure. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

For the fortified city stands desolate, a settlement abandoned and forsaken like the desert; calves graze there, and there they lie down and strip bare its branches.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

But a noble person plans noble things;he stands up for noble causes.

Verse ConceptsGenuinenessPlansCharacter Of SaintsGenerosity

They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;they set it in its place, and there it stands;it does not budge from its place.They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;it saves no one from his trouble.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessHearingProtection, Not Found InShouldersCarrying IdolsIdolatryOthers Not AnsweringSalvation By Other Things

Justice is turned back,and righteousness stands far off.For truth has stumbled in the public square,and honesty cannot enter.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlumb LineRoadsStumblingEvil TimesFar From OneUnfaithfulMorality

Watch out! It stands written before me: "I won't keep silent, but I will pay back in full; I'll indeed repay into their laps

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillGod Will RequiteNot Still

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,“Zion will be plowed like a field,And Jerusalem will become [heaps of] ruins,And the mountain of the house [of the Lord—Mount Moriah, on which stands the temple, shall become covered not with buildings, but] like a densely wooded height.”’

Verse ConceptsForestsProphecy, Methods Of OtZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyProphesyingDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingNamed Prophets Of The Lord

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says about the pillars, the bronze sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that remain in this city

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's Temple

Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah only few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah, the ones going to the land of Egypt to live there for a while, will know whose word stands, Mine or theirs!

Verse ConceptsKnowingFew People

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,“When I will cause an alarm of war to be heardAgainst Rabbah of the Ammonites;And it [along with the high ground on which it stands] will become a desolate heap,And its villages will be set on fire.Then will Israel take possession of his possessors,”Says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyBurning CitiesTrumpets For Battle

The Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars that were in the LORD's Temple and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the LORD's Temple, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonPillars For Solomon's Temple

There was too much bronze to weigh in the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze oxen that were under the sea, and the stands which King Solomon had made for the LORD's Temple.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveAnimals, Types OfTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTwelve Animals

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster is coming, [one so destructive and injurious, so sudden and violent, that it stands alone,] a unique disaster, look it is coming!

Verse ConceptsDisastersUnique EventsBeing Unique

For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

Verse ConceptsLiversMagical Arts, Practice OfArrows, Uses OfHousehold GodsPeople Shaking

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