'Falls' in the Bible
“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,A horned snake in the path,That bites the horse’s heels,So that his rider falls backward.
“If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.
Though if water is put on the seed and a part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.
“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.
May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a distaff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
“Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;As one falls before the wicked, you have fallen.”And all the people wept again over him.
Behold, he has now hidden himself in one of the caves or in another place; and it will be when he falls on them at the first attack, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’
So we shall come to him in one of the places where he can be found, and we will fall on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.
“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,When deep sleep falls on men,
“In a dream, a vision of the night,When sound sleep falls on men,While they slumber in their beds,
When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong,Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.
A wicked messenger falls into adversity,But a faithful envoy brings healing.
He who has a crooked mind finds no good,And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
Like a thorn which falls into the hand of a drunkard,So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
The Lord sends a message against Jacob,And it falls on Israel.
Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.
But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”
He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty.
So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation is laid bare; and when it falls, you will be consumed in its midst. And you will know that I am the Lord.