213 occurrences in 12 translations

'Threw' in the Bible

The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, Events CelebratedWeaningGrowing Upsarah

Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit 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

On the third day, which just happened to be Pharaoh's birthday, he threw a party for all his servants. He lifted the head of both his senior security advisor and of his head chef in front of his servants

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ReasonsBanquets, Events CelebratedGuestsMealsBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedLifting Headscelebrating

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 Joseph threw his arms around Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.

Verse ConceptsNecksSalutations

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingChariotsGreetingsLove, And The WorldChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimePreparing To Travel

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

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,

Verse ConceptsSnakesMiracles Of Moses And AaronOthers Who FledPutting Things DownThings Changed

So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, and threw it at Moses’ feet. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Verse ConceptsFlintForeskinsKnivesSharpnessCovered With BloodSevering Body PartsCare Of FeetWood And Stone

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesMiracles Of Moses And AaronThings Changedmagic

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.

Verse ConceptsRodsSwallowingPutting Things DownThings Changedmagic

So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfSootFurnacesBoth Men And Animals AffectedAbscess

Then during the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the Egyptian forces from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw them into confusion.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfNightObelisksGod Appearing In FireGod Seeing The WickedPuzzlementcloudsarmy

He threw Pharaoh’s chariotsand his army into the sea;the elite of his officerswere drowned in the Red Sea.

Verse ConceptsOfficersAbaseAbasement, Examples OfDestroying ChariotsDeath Of Other GroupsThe Seaarmy

So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable.He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there.

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

So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off,’ and they gave it to me. When I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”

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

We threw them down;Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon.We caused desolation as far as Nophah,which reaches as far as Medeba.

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

If he pushed him of hatred, or threw something at him lying in wait and as a result he died,

Verse ConceptsPeople Waiting

‘But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or threw something at him without lying in wait,

Verse ConceptsLack Of Expectation

or without seeing him hit him [accidentally] with a stone object that could kill him, and he died, and [the offender] was not his enemy nor intending to harm him,

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksTwo Stone Tablets

I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous Things

The Lord uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationAs At This Day

And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and threw dust upon their heads.

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

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Today the Lord will trouble you!” So all Israel stoned them to death. They burned their bodies, threw stones on them,

Verse ConceptsThe DeadTrouble, Causes OfDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRetributionBurning PeopleTroubling Groups Of PeopleFamily Death

He hung the body of the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

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

The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel. He defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them through the ascent of Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

Verse ConceptsConfusionCarnage

As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.

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

It came about at sunset that Joshua gave a command, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and put large stones over the mouth of the cave, to this very day.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

Joshua threw lots in Shiloh in the LORD's presence and divided the land accordingly among the Israelis according to their divisions.

Verse ConceptsCasting Lots

The Lord threw Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army into confusion with the sword before Barak. Sisera left his chariot and fled on foot.

Verse ConceptsChariotsGod Overcoming

When Zebah and Zalmunna escaped, he pursued them, captured those two kings of Midian, and threw the entire army into a panic.

Verse ConceptsTwo Other Men

They said, “We agree to give them.” So they spread out a mantle, and everyone threw an earring from his plunder on it.

Verse ConceptsDividing The Spoil

They went out into the fields, harvested their vineyards, made some wine, and threw a party. Then they went into the temple of their god, ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsGluttonyGrapesMerrinessRevelryTreading GrapesUngodly Cursing

But a woman threw the upper portion of a millstone on Abimelech’s head and fractured 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

Later on, when his father went down to visit the woman, Samson threw a party there, since young men customarily did this.

Verse ConceptsCustomFeastingBridegroomCeremoniesCelebrationsBanquets, Events CelebratedMarriage, Customs Concerning

When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone and named that place Ramath-lehi.

Samuel was offering the burnt offering as the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel. The Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines that day and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfdefeatThunderAnger Of God, Examples OfGod OvercomingThunder Expressing God's Judgment

and he threw it, thinking, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David got away from him twice.

Verse ConceptsThrowing SpearsEscaping From PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan to kill him, so he knew that his father was determined 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

Afterwards, Abner brought 20 soldiers to David at Hebron, and David threw a party for Abner and the men who were with him.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, Examples OfTwenty

When Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son and a grandson of Saul, approached David, he threw himself on his face out of respect. "Mephibosheth!" David said as he greeted him. "Hello! I am your servant," he replied.

Verse ConceptsTributesBowing Before DavidBehold Me!saul

Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth, if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from [atop] the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?' Then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'"

Verse ConceptsMillstonesBeing Killed By A RockKilling Named Individuals

Amnon’s servant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a long-sleeved garment, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Kinds OfRobesDressFine ClothesShutting DoorsMulti ColouredLocks And Barsvirginity

He threw stones at David and at all the royal servants, the people and the warriors on David’s right and left.

Verse ConceptsGuardsStoningThrowing Stones

And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UsedirtThrowing StonesWiping DustCursing The Ungodly

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

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

Now Amasa was writhing in his blood in the middle of the highway, and the man had seen that all the people stopped. So he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him because he realized that all those who encountered Amasa were stopping.

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

All of the men who had accompanied Joab arrived and besieged Sheba in Abel of Beth-maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city rampart and began to batter the wall to demolish it.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsSiegesWallsSiege MoundsPeople Attacking Their Own

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

Then Solomon woke up and realized that he had dreamed a dream. Then he went back to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the LORD's covenant, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and threw a party for all of his servants.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, Examples OfLeisure, And PastimesThe Ark In The TempleArk Of The Covenant

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 left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.

Verse ConceptsFarmersCloaksCovering The BodyYokesCultivationPloughingOuter GarmentsPloughmenTwelve Animals

Elisha went out to the spring of water, threw salt in it, and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will death or unfruitfulness result from it.’”

Verse ConceptsBad WaterOvercoming DeathRestoring ThingsGod Healing Our LandHealing And ComfortInfertilitypot

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

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

Then Elisha said, “Get some meal.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Serve it for the people to eat.” And there was nothing bad in the pot.

Verse ConceptsFoodMiracles, Responses Topot

Then the man of God asked, “Where did it fall?”When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron 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

And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

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

When he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Don’t let anyone out.” So they struck them down with the sword. Then the guards and officers threw the bodies out and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringShrinesNo EscapeApproval To Kill

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a raiding party, so they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. When he touched Elisha’s bones, the man revived and stood up!

Verse ConceptsBodyMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of ElishaBonesAnother's Burial Placerevival

He brought out the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

Verse ConceptsTombsBurning Idolatrous Things

The king tore down the altars that were on the roof—Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsRoofValleysBuilding AltarsUpper RoomsCourts Of The Temple

because through the LORD's anger these things happened to Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them from his presence.

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

Nation was crushed by nation, and city [was] against city, for God threw them into confusion by all [sorts of] trouble.

Verse ConceptsCivil StrifeTwo Hundred And Some

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

and the Judahites captured 10,000 alive. They took them to the top of a cliff where they threw them off, and all of them were dashed to pieces.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfHorrors Of WarTens Of ThousandsTwelve Beings

For the Lord humbled Judah because of King Ahaz of Judah, who threw off restraint in Judah and was unfaithful to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHumility

In addition, we have prepared and rededicated all of the utensils that King Ahaz threw away during his unfaithful reign, and now they're back in service at the LORD's altar."

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodThe Altar Of The Lord

And they slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and threw it toward the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and threw the blood toward the altar, and then they slaughtered the lambs and threw the blood toward the altar.

They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's Works

They stood at their accustomed stations, in accordance with the Law of Moses, the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] from the hand of the Levites [on the altar].

Verse ConceptsSprinkling

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationSacrifice, In OtStonesAnnihilationDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and 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

"Then they disobeyed, rebelled against you, and threw your Law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had admonished the people to return to you, committing terrible blasphemies.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdisrespectChallengesIngratitudeMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom, Reasons ForUnfaithfulness, To GodCharacter Of WickedRebellion Against God, Nature OfRebellion Against God, Shown InKilling ProphetsBreaking God's Law

I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room.

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

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

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

so that my heart was secretly enticedand I threw them a kiss,

Verse ConceptsEvil KissingKissingreverence

because of your indignation and wrath, when you lifted and threw me away.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfDriven Away By God

"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

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.

Verse ConceptsCemeteryInadequate Burials

When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesPensScrollsRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's WordThree Or FourReading The ScripturesBroken Things

So they threw Jeremiah into a cistern that belonged to the king's son Malchijah and was located in the courtyard of the guard. When they let Jeremiah down with ropes, because there was no water in the cistern only mud Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

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