'Closer' in the Bible

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?”

So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come closer and kiss me, my son.”

So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothes, he blessed him and said:Ah, the smell of my sonis like the smell of a fieldthat the Lord has blessed.

“Do not come closer,” He said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Then Joshua told the Israelites, “Come closer and listen to the words of the Lord your God.”

Yes, it is true that I am a family redeemer, but there is a redeemer closer than I am.

The Philistine came closer and closer to David, with the shield-bearer in front of him.

He called out and told the king.The king said, “If he’s alone, he bears good news.”As the first runner came closer,

A man with many friends may be harmed,but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother. >