'Gathering' in the Bible

Now while the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

“He made darkness canopies around Him,A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

So he set out and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks [for firewood]. He called out to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a jar, so that I may drink.”

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar. See, I am gathering a few sticks so that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it [as our last meal] and die.”

The Lord is building up Jerusalem;He is gathering [together] the exiles of Israel.

She calls out at the head of the noisy streets [where large crowds gather];At the entrance of the city gates she speaks her words:

For to the person who pleases Him God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who pleases God. This too is vanity and chasing after the wind.

A sound of tumult on the mountains,Like that of many people!A sound of the uproar of the kingdoms,Of nations gathered together!The Lord of hosts is mustering an army for battle.

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the Lord;I am tired of restraining it.“[I will] pour it out on the children in the streetAnd on the young men gathered together;For both the husband and wife shall be taken,The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

“The harvest is past, the summer has ended and the gathering of fruit is over,But we are not saved,” [comes the voice of the people again].

Behold, the tempest of the Lord!Wrath has gone forth,A sweeping and gathering tempest;It will burst on the head of the wicked.