'Ready' in the Bible

And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and said to the man who was over his house, Bring the men into the house, and slaughter cattle, and make ready; for the men shall eat with me at noon.

And they made ready the gift for Joseph's coming at noon; for they had heard that they should eat bread there.

and let them be ready for the third day; for on the third day Jehovah will come down before the eyes of all the people on mount Sinai.

And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.

And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to mount Sinai, and stand there before me on the top of the mountain.

and Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the living goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away to the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready;

And he commanded them, saying, See, ye shall be in ambush against the city, behind the city: go not very far from the city, and be all of you ready.

And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Mano'ah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)

And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses.

And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone entirely made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built.

Then Joram said, Make ready! And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in the plot of Naboth the Jizreelite.

and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready prepared for war.

And afterwards they made ready for themselves and for the priests; because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were engaged in offering up the burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah the God of Israel had given. And the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.

and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.

That the decree might be given in every province, a copy of the writing was published to all peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

That the decree might be given in every province, a copy of the writing was published to all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; like new flasks, it is ready to burst.

If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,

For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.

For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.

and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

They have blown the trumpet and made all ready, but none goeth to the battle; for my fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

Now if ye be ready at the time that ye hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast that same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.

Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy;

Wherefore ye also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.

But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is ready, but the flesh weak.

and he will shew you a large upper room furnished ready. There make ready for us.

And his disciples went away and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to the thoughts of just men, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

And he sent messengers before his face. And having gone they entered into a village of the Samaritans that they might make ready for him.

And ye therefore, be ye ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think it, the Son of man comes.

And he sent his bondman at the hour of supper to say to those who were invited, Come, for already all things are ready.

men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

And he will shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

And he said to him, Lord, with thee I am ready to go both to prison and to death.

Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.

And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

And after these days, having got our effects ready, we went up to Jerusalem.

Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.

Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.

so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.

I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you.

to announce the glad tidings to that which is beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient to rule, to be ready to do every good work,

who are kept guarded by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.