77 occurrences

'Threw' in the Bible

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

Verse ConceptsPrisonersEmpty ThingsDry Places

Joseph's master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph's house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Verse ConceptsNecksSalutations

Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, "Here we are; we are your slaves."

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

The Lord said, "Throw it to the ground." So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

Verse ConceptsSnakesMiracles Of Moses And AaronOthers Who FledPutting Things DownThings Changed

When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the Lord had commanded them -- Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesMiracles Of Moses And AaronThings Changedmagic

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

Verse ConceptsRodsSwallowingPutting Things DownThings Changedmagic

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfSootFurnacesBoth Men And Animals AffectedAbscess

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfNightObelisksGod Appearing In FireGod Seeing The WickedPuzzlementcloudsarmy

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronAnswered PrayerSweetnessNamed Individuals Who PrayedWeedexams

So I said to them, 'Whoever has gold, break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."

Verse ConceptsGold Transferred

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?"

Verse ConceptsSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedWill God Be Angry?venting

"Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!" But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleGod Might Kill His People

So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfAttitudes, in prayerPrayer, Practicalities OfProstrationGod's Glory In IsraelAssembling At The Doorway

Then the Lord opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBowingProstrationReceiving SightSeeing AngelsGod's Sword

I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksTwo Stone Tablets

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt on their heads.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesArk Of The Covenant, FunctionEveningClothing, Tearing OfHeadsProstrationSprinklingHumility, Examples OfDust On The HeadThose Who Tore Clothes

He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day).

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, all the way to Azekah. They died -- in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.

Verse ConceptsHailSkyWeather, As God's JudgmentGod KillingIsrael FleeingGod Killed The Peoples

At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

They said, "We are happy to give you earrings." So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

Verse ConceptsDividing The Spoil

a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed By A RockSkullscrushes

They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfAbandoning ThingsPutting Away Other GodsCompetition

When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down and named that place Ramath Lehi.

and Saul threw the spear, thinking, "I'll nail David to the wall!" But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

Verse ConceptsThrowing SpearsEscaping From PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced that his father had decided to kill David.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThrowing Spears

When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself down before David, and bowed to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBowingProstrationSalutationsDismountingBowing Before David

On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he approached David, the man threw himself to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBowingThe Third Day Of The WeekBowing Before DavidDust On The HeadThose Who Tore ClothesPraising Specific People

He threw stones at David and all of King David's servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

Verse ConceptsGuardsStoningThrowing Stones

So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UsedirtThrowing StonesWiping DustCursing The Ungodly

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.

Verse ConceptsPitsRetributionIsrael FleeingCairnsHoles In The Ground

They crossed at the ford in order to help the king's household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate. Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.

Verse ConceptsBoatsProstrationBowing Before DavidFords

Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa stopped, the man pulled him away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCovered With BloodTragedy On The StreetsCorpses Of Other People

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba's head and threw it out to Joab. Joab blew the trumpet, and his men dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "The Lord is the true God! The Lord is the true God!"

Verse ConceptsProstrationReligious AwakeningsDuplicating WordsThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

Verse ConceptsFarmersCloaksCovering The BodyYokesCultivationPloughingOuter GarmentsPloughmenTwelve Animals

He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, "This is what the Lord says, 'I have purified this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops."

Verse ConceptsBad WaterOvercoming DeathRestoring ThingsGod Healing Our LandHealing And ComfortInfertilitypot

They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.

Verse ConceptsUnknown ThingsHerbsWeedpot

He said, "Get some flour." Then he threw it into the pot and said, "Now pour some out for the men so they may eat." There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

Verse ConceptsFoodMiracles, Responses Topot

The prophet asked, "Where did it drop in?" When he showed him the spot, Elisha cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ElishaBuoyancyWhere Are Things?

So he threw a big banquet for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

Verse ConceptsDinner

He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfSprinkling BloodTrampling PeopleCovered With Bloodjezebel

One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.

Verse ConceptsBodyMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of ElishaBonesAnother's Burial Placerevival

He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord's temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.

Verse ConceptsTombsBurning Idolatrous Things

The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz's upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord's temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsRoofValleysBuilding AltarsUpper RoomsCourts Of The Temple

What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord's anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Verse ConceptsRevoltsDriven From God's Presence

David looked up and saw the Lord's messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthProstrationSackcloth And AshesStanding

All the officials and all the people gladly brought their silver and threw it into the chest until it was full.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessions

The men of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. All the captives fell to their death.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfHorrors Of WarTens Of ThousandsTwelve Beings

They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's Works

He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord's temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord's temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

Verse ConceptsReformationBuilding AltarsDestruction Of Satan's Works

You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.

Verse ConceptsPassing ThroughDivision Of WatersDry LandPeople As RocksGod KillingWaters DividedThe Sea DividedGod Killed The Peoples

I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah's household possessions out of the storeroom.

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Verse ConceptsMantlesClothing, Tearing OfBarbersBaldnessBereavement, Experience OfHairsShavingTearing Of ClothesDressThose Who Tore Clothes

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UseRobesSprinklingTearing Of ClothesWeepingSeeing At A DistanceDust On The HeadNot Recognising PeopleThose Who Tore Clothes

so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

Verse ConceptsEvil KissingKissingreverence

"Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, 'I will not serve you.' Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryServanthood, And Worship Of GodShrinesYokesNot Serving GodSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At TreesBreaking Chains

This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants. Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?

Verse ConceptsInferiorityThrowing PeopleUnknown ThingsExile In Prospectpot

But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies in a cistern.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeopleKilling Within Israel

Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeopleList Of Kings Of Israel

They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsKilling Israelites

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfClouds, God's PresenceProstrationRainbowsRainSymbolsGod's Glory In IsraelGod Is LightAppearancesGod's VoiceAppearances ofCloud of gloryThe RainbowColorRainbowcloudsadorationepiphany

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation Ofequipping, spiritualGod's Glory In Israel

While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, "Ah, sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?"

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodProstrationRemnantSurvivors Destroyed

Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, "Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!"

Verse ConceptsRemnantSurvivors DestroyedCries Of Distress To God

The nations -- the surrounding regions -- attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

Verse ConceptsNetsMan TrappingPeople Opposed

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulFalse WisdomAspects Of People Made KnownGentile RulersPeople Have Honour

I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadGroups TremblingMetaphorical TreesHuman Comfort

It was like the vision I saw when he came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemVisions From God

Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed the glory of the Lord filling the Lord's temple, and I threw myself face down.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfGod's Glory In IsraelFilling The SanctuaryComing To GatesNorth GatesGod Has GuidedIn FrontPlans For A New Temple

Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, "Wasn't it three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?" They replied to the king, "For sure, O king."

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToAmazement, Of God's ActionsAstonishmentThree MenHasty ActionPeople Getting UpTying Up

You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanMonotonySevere AfflictionsThrowing PeopleSinkingIn The Heart Of The SeaSwampedDeep Seaswaterfalls

The Lord then said to me, "Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!" So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPotterProphecies Concerning ChristExpensivePrice Set On Individuals

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