'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?