'Living' in the Bible

And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

He reigned 33 years in Jerusalem. These four children were born to David by Bath-shua daughter of Ammiel while he was living in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.

And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,

And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

They found fertile and rich pasture; the land was very broad, undisturbed and peaceful. Indeed some Hamites had been living there prior to that.

And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks.

And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who was living in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;

And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.

And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs.

Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle.

Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

And by the limits of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their daughter-towns. In these the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, were living.

These were Ehud’s sons, who were the heads of the families living in Geba and who were deported to Manahath:

Beriah, and Shema. They were leaders of the families living in Aijalon and chased out the inhabitants of Gath.

These were heads of families in their generations; chief men: these were living in Jerusalem.

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;

And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.

There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.

These singers, leaders of ancestral households of the descendants of Levi, were living in the chambers of the Temple. Freed from other service responsibilities, they were on duty day and night.

These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

David was living in that stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was then at Bethlehem.

They crossed the Jordan River in the first month, when it was overflowing its banks, and routed those living in all the valleys to the east and west.

But while he was living in Jerusalem, David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under tent curtains.”

Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.