30 occurrences

'Falls' in the Bible

“Dan shall be a [venomous] serpent in the way,A fanged snake in the path,That bites the horse’s heels,So that his rider falls backward.

Verse ConceptsBitingSerpentsSnakesHeelsPeople TumblingThings Like SnakesSnakebitesFalling Backwards

“If a man leaves a pit open, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsAnimals Falling

As for any earthenware container into which any of these [crawling things] falls, whatever is in it becomes unclean, and you shall break the container.

Verse ConceptsClayBreaking Containers

Everything that part of their carcass falls on becomes unclean; an oven, or a small stove shall be smashed; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

Verse ConceptsBakingOvensBreaking Containersporkcookingpot

If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean;

Verse ConceptsSowing Seeds

but if water is put on the seed and a part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

Verse ConceptsMoist Things

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be [the location of] his [inheritance]. According to the tribes of your fathers (ancestors) you shall inherit.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsReal EstateAccording To PeopleFew PeopleMany In Israel

Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees shall you destroy and cut down, so that you may build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

Let the guilt fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house (family); and may there never disappear from the house of Joab one who suffers with a discharge or one who is a leper or one who walks with a crutch [being unfit for war], or one who falls by the sword, or one who lacks food.”

Verse ConceptsLeprosyBodyLackWeakness, PhysicalNo FoodDischargesWithout Strength

“Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;As a man falls before the wicked, so you have fallen.”And all the people wept again over him.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

If I shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or if I command locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence and plague among My people,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,When deep sleep falls on men,

Verse ConceptsNightOvercoming Adversitywaterfalls

‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]?Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’

Verse ConceptsTentsFoolishness Of Men

“But as a mountain, if it falls, crumbles into nothing,And as the rock is moved from its place,

Verse ConceptsAbrasionMountains RemovedNature DecayingMoving To A New Place

“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,And my bones are burned with fever.

Verse ConceptsBodydiseasesSkinFeverDamage To The BodyHot ThingsBlack PeopleColor

“In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God’s voice],When deep sleep falls on menWhile slumbering upon the bed,

Verse ConceptsNight

He crushes [his prey] and crouches;And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.

Verse ConceptsPeople Falling From A Height

When he falls, he will not be hurled down,Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand and sustains him.

Verse ConceptsStumblingHelp From GodGod SupportingSupportBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

A wicked messenger falls into hardship,But a faithful ambassador brings healing.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsAmbassadorsenvoyMessengerHealth And Healing

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,But the wicked stumble in time of disaster and collapse.

Verse ConceptsGiving UpMischiefSeven TimesDownfallBurnoutMistakesRisingA Good Man

Like a muddied fountain and a polluted springIs a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked.

Verse Conceptsdouble mindednessFountainsProverbsSpring Of Waterpressure

Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own life;He hears the curse [when swearing an oath to testify], but discloses nothing [and commits perjury by omission].

Verse ConceptsStealingWitnesses, LegalComplicityNot Maintaining Lifethievespartnership

for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and does not have another to lift him up.

Verse ConceptsBest FriendsTragedyNot Being Alonehelphelpingpity

For man also does not know his time [of death]; like fish caught in a treacherous net, and birds caught in the snare, so the sons of men are ensnared in an evil time when a dark cloud suddenly falls on them.

Verse ConceptsDisastersThe Right TimeThe Insecurity Of The WickedWithheld KnowledgeSudden DestructionSudden EventsUnreadinessNot Knowing The FutureGod TrappingBad DaysHard TimesBirdsGod's TimingTragedyGods TimingFishGetting Through Hard Timessurprises

If the clouds are full [of rain], they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it lies.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseCompassesNorth And SouthThings FallingWeather In The Last Dayscloudsinvesting

Then it becomes fuel for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also kindles a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god [from the same wood] and worships it. He makes it into a carved idol [with his own hands] and falls down and worships it!

Verse ConceptsAdoration, FalseTreesWarmingFirewoodSelf Imagecookingimage

But from what is left of the wood he makes a god, his carved idol. He falls down before it, he worships it and prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

So I will tear down the wall which you have plastered with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundations will be exposed; when it falls, you will perish in its midst. And you shall know and understand fully that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of The WickedFoundations Of NationsPlasterThings StrippedWhitewashingMoral Decay

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