'Cast' in the Bible

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

You shall cast four gold rings for it and fasten them on its four feet, and two rings shall be on one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

You shall make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold, their hooks also being of gold; and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them.

He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.

He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.

He shall also take away its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar eastward, to the place of the ashes.

Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat.

The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

“But we have cast them down,Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon,Then we have laid waste even to Nophah,Which reaches to Medeba.”

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

You shall describe the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to describe the land, saying, “Go and walk through the land and describe it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”

And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.” And Jonathan was taken.

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

So David and his men went on the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside parallel with him and as he went he cursed and cast stones and threw dust at him.

They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

They came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.

Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.

Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest.

Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side.

The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.

Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back—

He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the sons of Israel.

They said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men, please let them go and search for your master; perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the Lord laid this oracle against him:

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will repay you in this property,’ says the Lord. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the Lord.”

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a marauding band; and they cast the man into the grave of Elisha. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet.

But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast them from His presence until now.

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

The Lord said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

These also cast lots just as their relatives the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites—the head of fathers’ households as well as those of his younger brother.

They cast lots for their duties, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the pupil.

They cast lots, the small and the great alike, according to their fathers’ households, for every gate.

The lot to the east fell to Shelemiah. Then they cast lots for his son Zechariah, a counselor with insight, and his lot came out to the north.

Also he made the cast metal sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits and its circumference thirty cubits.

Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece.

On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

They arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and cast them into the brook Kidron.

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,And cast Your law behind their backsAnd killed Your prophets who had admonished themSo that they might return to You,And they committed great blasphemies.

Likewise we cast lots for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites and the people so that they might bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law;

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while nine-tenths remained in the other cities.

In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.

“You would even cast lots for the orphansAnd barter over your friend.

“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.

“When you are cast down, you will speak with confidence,And the humble person He will save.

“I smiled on them when they did not believe,And the light of my face they did not cast down.

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,They have cast off the bridle before me.

“He has cast me into the mire,And I have become like dust and ashes.

“Let us tear their fetters apartAnd cast away their cords from us!”

They have now surrounded us in our steps;They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

Upon You I was cast from birth;You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

They divide my garments among them,And for my clothing they cast lots.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bowTo cast down the afflicted and the needy,To slay those who are upright in conduct.

“For you hate discipline,And you cast My words behind you.

Do not cast me away from Your presenceAnd do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you;He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

Because of wickedness, cast them forth,In anger put down the peoples, O God!

Do not cast me off in the time of old age;Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

Surely You set them in slippery places;You cast them down to destruction.

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep.

But You have cast off and rejected,You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

You have made his splendor to ceaseAnd cast his throne to the ground.

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,For You have lifted me up and cast me away.

Therefore He swore to themThat He would cast them down in the wilderness,

And that He would cast their seed among the nationsAnd scatter them in the lands.

“May burning coals fall upon them;May they be cast into the fire,Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

For many are the victims she has cast down,And numerous are all her slain.

The lot is cast into the lap,But its every decision is from the Lord.

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the batsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves to worship,

“But you have been cast out of your tombLike a rejected branch,Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,Who go down to the stones of the pitLike a trampled corpse.

“Give us advice, make a decision;Cast your shadow like night at high noon;Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

And the fishermen will lament,And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn,And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

And roll you tightly like a ball,To be cast into a vast country;There you will dieAnd there your splendid chariots will be,You shame of your master’s house.’

The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent;As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction,Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters,He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin.

He has cast the lot for them,And His hand has divided it to them by line.They shall possess it forever;From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

For thus says the Lord of hosts,“Cut down her treesAnd cast up a siege against Jerusalem.This is the city to be punished,In whose midst there is only oppression.

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?They were not even ashamed at all;They did not even know how to blush.Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;At the time that I punish them,They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.

‘Cut off your hair and cast it away,And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;For the Lord has rejected and forsakenThe generation of His wrath.’

“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,‘How are we ruined!We are put to great shame,For we have left the land,Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

“Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?Or is he an undesirable vessel?Why have he and his descendants been hurled outAnd cast into a land that they had not known?

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

Thus says the Lord,“If the heavens above can be measuredAnd the foundations of the earth searched out below,Then I will also cast off all the offspring of IsraelFor all that they have done,” declares the Lord.