30 occurrences

'Surrounded' in the Bible

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

Verse ConceptsLightningMusical Instruments, types ofSmokeTheophanyThunderFear, Of UnknownStanding At A DistanceTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodWitnessingdistancesmokingThunder Showing God's Presence

Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenArts And Crafts, Types ofSealsPlaitingengravingGold Items For The Tabernacl

Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal.

Verse ConceptsengravingSeals

and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesPlaitingGold Items For The TabernaclJewellery And God

He will purify the most holy place in this way for all their sins because of the Israelites’ impurities and rebellious acts. He will do the same for the tent of meeting that remains among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.

Verse ConceptsAtonementPriests Atoning

He found him in a desolate land,in a barren, howling wilderness;He surrounded him, cared for him,and protected him as the pupil of His eye.

Verse ConceptsFruitBarren, LandGod Keeping WatchApple Of The EyeGod SurroundingEyes Cared ForFinding PeopleGod Led Them Through The Wildernesswandering

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, perverted men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”

Verse ConceptsVulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

Citizens of Gibeah ganged up on me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, but they raped my concubine, and she died.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

They surrounded the Benjaminites, pursued them, and easily overtook them near Gibeah toward the east.

and 10 young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

Verse ConceptsTen People

They destroyed the cities, and each of them threw stones to cover every good piece of land. They stopped up every spring of water and cut down every good tree. In the end, only the buildings of Kir-hareseth were left. Then men with slings surrounded the city and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

he sent horses, chariots, and a massive army there. They went by night and surrounded the city.

Verse ConceptsChariotsEnemies SurroundingAttacking With ChariotsEarthly ArmiesNations Attacking Israel

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.

Verse ConceptsChariotsAttacking With ChariotsIsrael FleeingDuring One NightThe Nations Attacked

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,

Verse ConceptsHorticultureWallsEnemies SurroundingComing BetweenWalled TownsIsrael FleeingDuring One NightTwo Parts Of Constructions

The terror of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so they didn’t fight against Jehoshaphat.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsReverence, And Social BehaviourTerror Of God

So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his commanders and all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders.

Who can open his jaws,surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

Verse ConceptsMouthsTeethOther References To Mouths

For dogs have surrounded me;a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;they pierced my hands and my feet.

Verse ConceptsdogsEnemies SurroundingMessianic Prophecies

For troubles without number have surrounded me;my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.They are more than the hairs of my head,and my courage leaves me.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberGuilty ConsciencesDespair, Description OfNumber Of HairsHair

All the nations surrounded me;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They surrounded me like bees;they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsBeesInsectsThornsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingExtinguishingWeed

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

Verse ConceptsFew People

It is Solomon’s royal littersurrounded by 60 warriorsfrom the mighty of Israel.

Your navel is a rounded bowl;it never lacks mixed wine.Your waist is a mound of wheatsurrounded by lilies.

So He poured out on Jacob His furious angerand the power of war.It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;it burned him, but he paid no attention.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChastisementSensitivityInsensibilityBurning PeopleStrength In Battle

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsHorticultureComing BetweenCity GatesIsrael Fleeing

Shepherd Your people with Your staff,the flock that is Your possession.They live alone in a woodlandsurrounded by pastures.Let them graze in Bashan and Gileadas in ancient times.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdForestsKnowing God, Effects OfPeople Of God, In OtStaffFertile LandHistory Of NationsA Solitary PeoplePasturing The Flock

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Environ (1 instance)
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