16 occurrences

'Collapsed' in the Bible

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

Verse ConceptsPromises, HumanStaffBeds

So the army shouted and the trumpets were blown again. As soon as the army heard the sound of the trumpets, they shouted loudly and the wall collapsed. The army charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

He crumpled to the ground between her feet, where he fell down and collapsed. Between her feet he crumpled, Fallen dead!

Verse ConceptsPeople Tumbling

Gideon arrived just as a soldier was talking to a friend about a dream. "Look!" he was saying. "I had a dream that went like this: A loaf of barley bread rolled into the Midianite encampment, came to a tent, and collided with it. The loaf of bread fell down, turned upside down, and the tent collapsed!"

Verse ConceptsGrainTentsCakesTurning Upside DownDreams Involving Unusual Imagesgideon

When the burnt offering was engulfed in flames that sprang up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame that came from the altar. When Manoah and his wife observed this, they collapsed on their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsProstrationCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going Up

Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He strained with all his strength until the building collapsed on the officials and every person in it. As a result, the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed during his lifetime.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

As dawn was breaking, the woman approached the door of the man's home where her master was and collapsed. Eventually, full daylight came.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

But Asahel refused to turn away, so Abner struck Asahel in the abdomen with the butt end of his spear, and the spear protruded through his back. He collapsed to the ground and died where he fell. Everyone gathered round the place where Asahel had collapsed and died, and stood still there.

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

David arose, ripped his clothes in anguish, and collapsed to the ground while all of his staff stood by with their own clothes torn.

Verse ConceptsMourningThose Who Tore Clothes

The rest of the Aramean army retreated into Aphek, but the city wall collapsed on 27,000 soldiers who had taken shelter there. Ben-hadad himself ran away and hid inside a closet somewhere in the city.

Verse ConceptsWallsTwenty Thousand And UpPeoples Who FledPrivate Rooms

But Jehu drew his bow with all of his strength, shooting Joram between his shoulder blades. The arrow pierced his heart, and he collapsed in his chariot.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Described AsHeart, HumanArchers, Men Shot ByKilling KingsOther References To The Heart

When I heard this, I tore both my garment and robe, plucked hair from both my head and my beard, and collapsed in shock!

Verse ConceptsMantlesCloaksClothing, Tearing OfBeardsHairsDressTrimming Facial HairHair PluckingThose Who Tore Clothes

when a strong wind came straight out of the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you!"

Verse ConceptsStormsActing AloneFour CornersDestruction Of HousesFour SidesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeathHurricanes

For we have collapsed in the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBody

There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

Verse ConceptsNettlesArchaeologySlothfulnessWeedGrowing

Jerusalem's gates collapsed to the ground; he destroyed and broke the bars of her gates. Both king and prince have gone into captivity. There is no instruction, and the prophets receive no vision from the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Poverty, SpiritualVisionsSpiritual DestitutionBreaking SticksDestruction Of JerusalemKings ExiledCity GatesNo VisionsProphecy AbolishedPutting Things Down

Bible Theasaurus

Burst (49 instances)
Collapse (34 instances)
Collapsed (28 instances)
Crack (10 instances)
Crumble (7 instances)
Founder (7 instances)
Tumble (3 instances)

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