'Situation' in the Bible

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

The Hebrew foremen saw that they were in a bad situation because they were told, “You must not reduce [in the least] your daily quota of bricks.”

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their entire families. Everyone gathered at the entrance to their tents so that the LORD was very angry. Moses thought the situation was bad,

All the Israelites murmured [in discontent] against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!

"Now this is the situation for any killer who flees there to live: suppose he strikes his friend unwittingly, not having hated him previously.

The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.

And {David was in a very precarious situation}, for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each [one] over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Then the king told the woman, "Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation."

Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land."

and whose descendants had survived them and continued to live in the land because the Israelis were unable to completely eliminate them, Solomon placed under conscripted labor, a situation that remains in effect to this day.

So the king did not listen to the people; for the situation was from the Lord, so that He might fulfill His word which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

So the king sent another captain of 50 with his 50 men to Elijah. He took in the situation and announced, “Man of God, this is what the king says: ‘Come down immediately!’”

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

But Amaziah refused to listen, because the situation was being orchestrated by God in order to turn them over to the control of their enemies because they had pursued those Edomite gods.

So those who had returned from exile did this. Ezra the priest and leaders of certain ancestral groups listed by name devoted themselves to examine the situation on the first day of the tenth month.

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;I also will give you my opinion [about Job’s situation] and tell you plainly what I think.’

“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress and confinement,Into a broad place where there is no constraint or distress;And that which was set on your table was full of fatness (rich food).

If an army encamps against me, my heart will not fear. If a war is launched against me, I will even trust in that situation.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

People, in every situation put your trust in God; pour out your heart before him; for God is a refuge for us. Interlude

Who satisfies your years with good things,So that your youth is renewed like the [soaring] eagle.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. A praise psalm by David.

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

If you don’t tell me the dream, there is one decree for you. You have conspired to tell me something false or fraudulent until the situation changes. So tell me the dream and I will know you can give me its interpretation.”

He asked Arioch, the king’s officer, “Why is the decree from the king so harsh?” Then Arioch explained the situation to Daniel.

A stone was brought and placed over the opening to the pit, and the king affixed a seal to it with his personal signet ring and with the signet rings of his officials so that no one would interfere with Daniel's situation.

So the Lord God prepared a plant and it grew up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head to spare him from discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about [the protection of] the plant.

they, aware of the situation, escaped to Lystra and Derbe, [taking refuge in the] cities of Lycaonia, and the neighboring region;

However, each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.

Each person should remain in the life situation in which he was called.

Brothers, each person should remain with God in whatever situation he was called.

For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, would be embarrassed in that situation.

Besides, God is able to make every blessing of yours overflow for you, so that in every situation you will always have all you need for any good work.

In every situation take the shield of faith,and with it you will be able to extinguishall the flaming arrows of the evil one.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation,

Never worry about anything. Instead, in every situation let your petitions be made known to God through prayers and requests, with thanksgiving.

I am not saying this because I am in any need, for I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am in.

I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper. In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.

and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your number. They will inform you about the whole situation here.