'Turned' in the Bible

Judah turned and discovered that the battle was in front of them and behind them, so they cried out to the Lord. Then the priests blew the trumpets,

but when they turned to the Lord God of Israel in their distress and sought Him, He was found by them.

When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they shouted, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out and the Lord helped him. God drew them away from him.

When the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir. You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

The Ammonites and Moabites turned against the inhabitants of Mount Seir and completely annihilated them. When they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped destroy each other.

Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem turned back with Jehoshaphat their leader, returning joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord enabled them to rejoice over their enemies.

From the time Amaziah turned from following the Lord, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. However, men were sent after him to Lachish, and they put him to death there.

Then Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw that he was diseased on his forehead. They rushed him out of there. He himself also hurried to get out because the Lord had afflicted him.

For our fathers were unfaithful and did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the Lord’s tabernacle, and turned their backs on Him.

You did not abandon them in the wildernessbecause of Your great compassion.During the day the pillar of cloudnever turned away from them,guiding them on their journey.And during the night the pillar of fireilluminated the way they should go.

because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.

because during those days the Jews got rid of their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor.

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of perfect integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

If only that day had turned to darkness!May God above not care about it,or light shine on it.

They turned night into dayand made light seem near in the face of darkness.

All of my best friends despise me,and those I love have turned against me.

My feet have followed in His tracks;I have kept to His way and not turned aside.

Terrors are turned loose against me;they chase my dignity away like the wind,and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

You have turned against me with cruelty;You harass me with Your strong hand.

If my step has turned from the way,my heart has followed my eyes,or impurity has stained my hands,

because they turned aside from following Himand did not understand any of His ways

All have turned away;all alike have become corrupt.There is no one who does good,not even one.

For I have kept the ways of the Lordand have not turned from my God to wickedness.

You turned my lament into dancing;You removed my sackclothand clothed me with gladness,

Let those who seek to kill mebe disgraced and humiliated;let those who plan to harm mebe turned back and ashamed.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.I waited patiently for the Lord,and He turned to me and heard my cry for help.

How happy is the manwho has put his trust in the Lordand has not turned to the proudor to those who run after lies!

Our hearts have not turned back;our steps have not strayed from Your path.

All have turned away;all alike have become corrupt.There is no one who does good,not even one.

He turned the sea into dry land,and they crossed the river on foot.There we rejoiced in Him.

May God be praised!He has not turned away my prayeror turned His faithful love from me.

The Ephraimite archers turned backon the day of battle.

Yet He was compassionate;He atoned for their guiltand did not destroy them.He often turned His anger asideand did not unleash all His wrath.

He turned their rivers into blood,and they could not drink from their streams.

They treacherously turned away like their fathers;they became warped like a faulty bow.

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,desecrated Your holy temple,and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

You withdrew all Your fury;You turned from Your burning anger.

You have also turned back his sharp swordand have not let him stand in battle.

whose hearts He turned to hate His peopleand to deal deceptively with His servants.

He turned their water into bloodand caused their fish to die.

The sea looked and fled;the Jordan turned back.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?Jordan, that you turned back?

who turned the rock into a pool of water,the flint into a spring of water.

Because He has turned His ear to me,I will call out to Him as long as I live.

I thought about my waysand turned my steps back to Your decrees.

I have not turned from Your judgments,for You Yourself have instructed me.

My persecutors and foes are many.I have not turned from Your decrees.

I said to myself, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly, for what will the man be like who comes after the king? He will do what has already been done.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

I opened to my love,but my love had turned and gone away.I was crushed that he had left.I sought him, but did not find him.I called him, but he did not answer.

Y Where has your love gone,most beautiful of women?Which way has he turned?We will seek him with you.

Oh sinful nation,people weighed down with iniquity,brood of evildoers,depraved children!They have abandoned the Lord;they have despised the Holy One of Israel;they have turned their backs on Him.

On that day you will say:“I will praise You, Lord,although You were angry with me.Your anger has turned away,and You have had compassion on me.

who turned the world into a wilderness,who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home?”

My heart staggers;horror terrifies me.He has turned my last glimmer of hopeinto sheer terror.

For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,a fortified city, into ruins;the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;it will never be rebuilt.

You have turned things around,as if the potter were the same as the clay.How can what is made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”?How can what is formedsay about the one who formed it,“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,her soil into sulfur;her land will become burning pitch.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.

They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—those who trust in idolsand say to metal-plated images:You are our gods!

He was despised and rejected by men,a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.He was like someone people turned away from;He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

We all went astray like sheep;we all have turned to our own way;and the Lord has punished Himfor the iniquity of us all.

Justice is turned back,and righteousness stands far off.For truth has stumbled in the public square,and honesty cannot enter.

say to a tree, “You are my father,”and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”For they have turned their back to Meand not their face,yet in their time of disaster they beg,“Rise up and save us!”

Because of this, put on sackcloth;mourn and wail,for the Lord’s burning angerhas not turned away from us.

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.They have turned aside and have gone away.

Their houses will be turned over to others,their fields and wives as well,for I will stretch out My handagainst the inhabitants of the land.This is the Lord’s declaration.

Why have these people turned away?Why is Jerusalem always turning away?They take hold of deceit;they refuse to return.

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;they have trampled My plot of land.They have turned My desirable plotinto a desolate wasteland.

You have left Me.This is the Lord’s declaration.You have turned your back,so I have stretched out My hand against youand destroyed you.I am tired of showing compassion.

For I have turned against this city to bring disaster and not good’”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “‘It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, who will burn it down.’

If they had really stood in My council,they would have enabled My people to hear My wordsand would have turned them back from their evil waysand their evil deeds.

Ask and seewhether a male can give birth.Why then do I see every manwith his hands on his stomach like a woman in laborand every face turned pale?

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again, they do not listen and receive discipline.

When they had heard all the words, they turned to each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must surely tell the king all these things.”

had Jeremiah brought from the guard’s courtyard and turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he settled among his own people.

When Jeremiah had not yet turned to go, Nebuzaradan said to him: “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people or go wherever you want to go.” So the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.

and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and rejoined Johanan son of Kareah.

“How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him.”

Damascus has become weak;she has turned to run;panic has gripped her.Distress and labor pains have seized herlike a woman in labor.

מ MemHe sent fire from heaven into my bones;He made it descend.He spread a net for my feetand turned me back.He made me desolate,sick all day long.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our houses to foreigners.

Joy has left our hearts;our dancing has turned to mourning.

Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from Me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable practices of every kind.

So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.

It sprouted and became a spreading vine,low in height with its branches turned toward him,yet its roots stayed under it.So it became a vine,produced branches, and sent out shoots.

He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

When she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister.

“Therefore Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side:

“For this is what the Lord God says: I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.

“Son of man, because Tyre said about Jerusalem, ‘Good! The gateway to the peoples is shattered. She has been turned over to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins,’

a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side, and a lion’s face turned toward it on the other. They were carved throughout the temple on all sides.

Then he turned to the west sideand measured 875 feet by the measuring rod.

his face turned pale, and his thoughts so terrified him that his hip joints shook and his knees knocked together.

Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face turned pale, and his nobles were bewildered.

“This is the end of the interpretation. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts terrified me greatly, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”