'Swallowing' in the Bible

and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.'

though he savors it and delays swallowing it so he can taste it again and again in his mouth,

therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And are an evil report of the people.

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed from its mouth.