'Ready' in the Bible

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his house steward, “Bring the men into the house, and slay an animal and make ready; for the men are to dine with me at noon.”

So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, while our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

He commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Then the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”

But the people said, “You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not care about us; even if half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city.”

Then Joram said, “Get ready.” And they made his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war.

Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him.

Moreover, Uzziah had an army ready for battle, which entered combat by divisions according to the number of their muster, prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the official, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s officers.

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in each and every province was published to all the peoples, so that the Jews would be ready for this day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

“Distress and anguish terrify him,They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,The grave is ready for me.

“His strength is famished,And calamity is ready at his side.

“The blessing of the one ready to perish came upon me,And I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;He has bent His bow and made it ready.

For, behold, the wicked bend the bow,They make ready their arrow upon the stringTo shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

For I am ready to fall,And my sorrow is continually before me.

For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.My heart overflows with a good theme;I address my verses to the King;My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

They devise injustices, saying,“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

Let Your hand be ready to help me,For I have chosen Your precepts.

For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,That they may be ready on your lips.

Prepare your work outsideAnd make it ready for yourself in the field;Afterwards, then, build your house.

For Topheth has long been ready,Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.He has made it deep and large,A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

That you have forgotten the Lord your Maker,Who stretched out the heavensAnd laid the foundations of the earth,That you fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor,As he makes ready to destroy?But where is the fury of the oppressor?

“Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol,Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes;Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,For the sword has devoured those around you.’

“Make your baggage ready for exile,O daughter dwelling in Egypt,For Memphis will become a desolation;It will even be burned down and bereft of inhabitants.

‘They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude.

Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?”

For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said,“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight!’”

Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

Then he *said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight.’”

And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there.”

It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,‘Make ready the way of the Lord,Make His paths straight.

You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,

and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’

But he said to Him, “Lord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death!”

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

After these days we got ready and started on our way up to Jerusalem.

Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case by a more thorough investigation; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near the place.”

So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.”

And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.”

So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.

and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

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

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.

Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.