'Steps' in the Bible
You will not go up with steps onto my altar, that your nakedness not be exposed on it.'
It happened [that] when the carriers of the ark of Yahweh had marched six steps that he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
You have broadened my steps beneath me; my ankles have not wobbled.
Six steps [led up] to the throne, and [there was] a circular top to the throne behind it, and armrests were {on each side of the seat}, with two lions standing beside the armrests.
Twelve lions [were] standing there, six on each of the six steps {on either side}; nothing like this was made for any of the kingdoms.
So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread [them] under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, "Jehu is king!"
I dug [wells] and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.'
Isaiah said, "This [is] the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?"
Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps."
Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps.
And the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers [from] the algum wood. And there was not seen [anything] like them before in the land of Judah.
And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold [was] attached to the throne. And [there were] armrests {on each side}. And by {the seat} [were] two lions standing beside the armrests.
And twelve lions were standing there on [each] of the six steps {on each end}. And there was nothing like [it] made in all the kingdom.
Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, the commander of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and erected its doors, its bolts, its bars, and [he built] the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, right up to the steps going down from the city of David.
At the Fountain Gate opposite them they went up the steps of the city of David, at the assent to the wall, over the house of David, and up to the Water Gate to the east.
For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.
"{His strong steps} are shortened, and his [own] schemes throw him down,
My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.
If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,
I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.
"Indeed, his eyes [are] upon [the] ways of man, and he sees all his steps.
[I have] held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.
[The] steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way.
The law of his God [is] in his heart. His steps will not slip.
And [so] he brought me up from [the] roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.
Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.
They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.
They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled. My steps had nearly slipped,
Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, [to] all [that the] enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.
Righteousness will go before him, and it will make his steps a pathway.
[by] which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, [by] which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.
Direct my steps in your word, and do not let any iniquity gain power over me.
Her feet go down [to] death; her steps take hold [of] Sheol.
The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.
[Away] from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen [rather] than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
[The] foot tramples it, [the] feet of [the] poor, [the] steps of [the] needy."
Look! I will cause [the] shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps." And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.
They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, {our days are finished}, our end has come.
And [then] he went toward [the] gate whose face [was] {to the east}. And he went up by its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide.
And its windows and its porticos and its palm tree images [were] like the measurement of the gate that [was] {facing toward the east}; and {it had} seven steps that go up it, and [there were] porticos {before them}.
And seven steps [were] going up [to] it and its porticos {before them}. And {it had palm tree images} {all along} its pilasters.
And its porticos [were] to the outer courtyard, and palm tree images [were] on its pilasters, and eight steps [were for] its stairs.
And its porticos [were] toward the outer courtyard, and palm tree images [were] on its pilasters {one each side}, and {eight steps served as it stairs}.
And its pilasters {faced the outer courtyard}, and {it had palm tree images on its pilasters} {on each side}; and eight steps [served as] its stairs.
The length of the portico [was] twenty cubits and its width eleven cubits, and with ten steps they went up to it, and the {pilasters had pillars}, {one on each side}.
And the ledge [was] {fourteen} [cubits] in length with {fourteen} [cubits] [its] width to [all] four of its sides, and a rim [was] all around it of one-half cubit. And the gutter for it [was] a cubit all around, and its steps [were] facing east."