'Straight' in the Bible

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town.

Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

And the cows took the straight way, by the road to Beth-shemesh; they went by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, and the sound of their voices was clear on the road; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the edge of Beth-shemesh.

When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.

And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.

So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.

And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

Then when the burned offering was ended, straight away Jehu said to the armed men and the captains, Go in and put them to death; let not one come out. So they put them to the sword; and, pulling the images to the earth, they went into the holy place of the house of Baal.

Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.

And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.

Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.

And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.

They went without turning, every one went straight forward.

Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.

The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.

Under the arch their wings were straight, one stretched out to another: every one had two wings covering their bodies on this side and two covering their bodies on that side.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.

But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him.

For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body.

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.

Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;

And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.

And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.

And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.

And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:

And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;

And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.

But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart; it is I, have no fear.

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?

And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.

Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me.

And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them; and straight away he will send them.

And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.

And straight away he came to Jesus and said, Master! and gave him a kiss.

Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.

And straight away one of them went quickly, and took a sponge, and made it full of bitter wine, and put it on a rod and gave him drink.

The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

And straight away, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens broken open and the Spirit coming down on him as a dove:

And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

And they went straight from their nets, and came after him.

And straight away the disease went from him, and he was made clean.

And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

And the Pharisees went out, and straight away made designs with the Herodians about how they might put him to death.