'Beside' in the Bible
"Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? You have sat beside the road, waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. And you have polluted the land with your fornication and your wickedness.
This is what the LORD says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, "We won't walk in it!'
When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills.
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the office of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it to the king and to all the officials who were standing beside the king.
"The swift cannot flee, nor can the strong escape. In the north, beside the Euphrates River, they stumble and fall.
You who live beside many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, your life thread is cut.