'Straight' in the Bible

When you hear the signal from the ram's horn, have the whole army give a loud battle cry. Then the city wall will collapse and the warriors should charge straight ahead."

The rams' horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.

They replied, "Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

So David asked the Lord what he should do. This time the Lord said to him, "Don't march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.

Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.

Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.

The righteousness of the blameless will make straight their way, but the wicked person will fall by his own wickedness.

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.

The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.

Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves' feet. They gleamed like polished bronze.

their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead.

Each moved straight ahead -- wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

"'When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead.

They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.

Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon." The Lord is speaking!

For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken: "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low, and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth,

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

John said, "I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

Then the Lord told him, "Get up and go to the street called 'Straight,' and at Judas' house look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. For he is praying,

But Saul (also known as Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at him

and said, "You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness -- will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

After we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and sailing a straight course, we came to Cos, on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.