'Steps' in the Bible
And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.’
“Indeed, He loves the people;All Your holy ones are in Your hand,And they followed in Your steps;Everyone receives of Your words.
“You enlarge my steps under me,And my feet have not slipped.
There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.
Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom.
Then they hurried and each man took his garment and placed it under him on the bare steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king!”
Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?”
So Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps.”
Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
From the algum trees the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king’s palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; and none like that was seen before in the land of Judah.
There were six steps to the throne and a footstool in gold attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.
Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom.
Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king’s garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.
At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.
“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,And he steps on the webbing.
When my steps were bathed in butter,And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
“I would declare to Him the number of my steps;Like a prince I would approach Him.
“For His eyes are upon the ways of a man,And He sees all his steps.
My steps have held fast to Your paths.My feet have not slipped.
They have now surrounded us in our steps;They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.
You enlarge my steps under me,And my feet have not slipped.
The steps of a man are established by the Lord,And He delights in his way.
The law of his God is in his heart;His steps do not slip.
Our heart has not turned back,And our steps have not deviated from Your way,
They attack, they lurk,They watch my steps,As they have waited to take my life.
They have prepared a net for my steps;My soul is bowed down;They dug a pit before me;They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.
But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling,My steps had almost slipped.
When you walk, your steps will not be impeded;And if you run, you will not stumble.
Her feet go down to death,Her steps take hold of Sheol.
The naive believes everything,But the sensible man considers his steps.
The mind of man plans his way,But the Lord directs his steps.
Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord,How then can man understand his way?
A man who flatters his neighborIs spreading a net for his steps.
Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.
Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proudAnd walk with heads held high and seductive eyes,And go along with mincing stepsAnd tinkle the bangles on their feet,
“The foot will trample it,The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the helpless.”
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.
I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself,Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.
They hunted our stepsSo that we could not walk in our streets;Our end drew near,Our days were finishedFor our end had come.
Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold was one rod in width.
Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.
There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.
Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.
Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
Its side pillars were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall face the east.”