'Around' in the Bible

But as the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD approached the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal was peering out a window, watching King David dancing and cavorting around, and she despised him in her heart.

Ornan turned around and saw the angel. While his four sons with him ran away to hide, Ornan continued to thresh wheat.

As David approached Ornan, Ornan looked around and observed David, left the threshing floor, and fell to the ground before David with his face on the ground.

Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days.

"Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has he [not] given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people.

He also made the Sea [that is, the large basin used for ceremonial washing] of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and five cubits in height, and its circumference was thirty cubits.

Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece.

King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel who had gathered around him were in front of the ark sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered because there were so many.

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young, inexperienced, and unable to assert himself against them.

Now Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to advance from behind them. So they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets.

He had told Judah, "Let's build up these cities, surrounding them with walls, towers, gates, and bars. The land still belongs to us, because we have kept on seeking the LORD our God. We have sought him out, and he has given us rest all around us." So the people built and prospered.

Then they attacked all the cities around Gerar because the terror of the Lord was on them. They also plundered all the cities, since there was a great deal of plunder in them.

And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around.

During the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign, King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and interdicted Ramah by building fortifications around it so no one could enter or leave to join King Asa of Judah.

And they taught in Judah, and the scroll of the law of Yahweh [was] with them when they went around in all the cities of Judah, and they taught the people.

Now the dread of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands which were around Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, "It is the king of Israel!" Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to the charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”

When the army of Judah arrived at the remotest watchtower in the wilderness, they looked around at the invasion force, and to their surprise, there were dead bodies lying all around on the ground not one had escaped!

As a result, Jehoshaphat's kingdom enjoyed peace, because his God had provided rest for him all around.

Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all the chariots with him, and when night came he struck Edom who [was] all around him and the commanders of his chariots.

They came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king’s house (palace), together with his sons and his wives; so there was not a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

And they went around in Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the {families} of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

And the Levites shall surround the king all around, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house shall be put to death. You shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out."

He set the rest of the people to serve as guards for the king, and each one brandished weapons in his hand, from the south side of the Temple to the north side of the Temple, around the altar, and surrounding the palace.

When Athaliah heard all the commotion of the people running around and praising the king, she went straight to the LORD's Temple to confront the people.

She looked around, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the gate, accompanied by officers and trumpeters who stood beside the king, along with all the people of the land rejoicing and sounding trumpets while singers lead the celebration with their musical instruments. Athaliah tore her robes and yelled "Treason! Treason!"

As the word spread around, the people of Israel gave generously for the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and all of the produce of the fields. They generously gave a tithe of everything.

So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the all [their enemies], and gave them rest all around.

After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate; he brought it around the Ophel, and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

But Josiah wouldn't turn around. In fact, he put on a disguise so he could fight Neco. He wouldn't listen to what God told him through what Neco had to say, and as a result, Josiah came to attack Neco on the Megiddo plain.

After this, they set fire to God's Temple, demolished the wall around Jerusalem, burned all of its fortified buildings, and destroyed everything of value.

All those who were around them encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle, and with valuable things, in addition to all that was given as a freewill offering.

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat devastated until the evening offering.

While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.

Each of the builders had his sword strapped around his waist while he was building, and the trumpeter was beside me.

I fed 150 Jews and officials every day, not counting those who came from the nations around us.

When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

The singers gathered from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,

from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.

Then I testified against them, and said to them, "Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they didn't come on the Sabbath.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the king's order and edict was about to be carried out, on the day when the enemies of the Jewish people expected to prevail over them, things were turned around so that the Jewish people themselves prevailed over those who hated them.

as the days on which the Jewish people enjoyed relief from their enemies. It was a month when things turned around for them, from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a holiday. They were to celebrate these days as days of feasting and joy, and they were to send presents to one another and gifts to the poor.

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

[Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?

They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.

The paths of their way wind [around]; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.

The eyes of the one who sees me won't see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won't be around!

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.He looks for a home among the stones.

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.Will You now turn and destroy me?

“Then you would trust, because there is hope;And you would look around and rest securely.

He releases the bonds put on by kingsand fastens a belt around their waists.

They grope around in darkness without light;He makes them stagger like drunken men. >

“You also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment]And [critically] observe all my paths;You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],

He wanders around for food where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

“His arrows surround me.He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;He pours out my gall on the ground.

Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?

“All around terrors frighten him,And harry him at every step.

Know then that God has wronged meAnd has closed His net around me.

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

His troops advance together;they construct a ramp against meand camp around my tent.

They let their little ones run around like lambs;their children skip about,

Therefore trapping nets [are] all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you,

They wander around naked, without clothes; hungry, though they carry sheaves of grain.

It will toss him around without pity. He'll try to break free from its grip,

when the Almighty was still with meand my children were around me,

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?

See how He spreads His lightning around Himand covers the depths of the sea.

“It changes direction, turning around by His guidance,That it may do whatever He commands itOn the face of the inhabited earth.

From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor.

"Have you entered into [the] sea's sources? Or have you walked around in [the] recesses of the deep?

Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth?

Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, [and] they wander around {for lack of food}?

“Who can open the doors of his face?Around his teeth there is terror.

But You, Lord, are a shield around me,my glory, and the One who lifts up my head.

I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.

Let the assembly of peoples gather around You;take Your seat on high over it.

The wicked, however, keep walking around, exalting the vileness of human beings. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.

The ropes of death were wrapped around me;the torrents of destruction terrified me.

The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

He made darkness His hiding place,dark storm clouds His canopy around Him.

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn around until they were utterly defeated.

Yes, wild dogs surround me -- a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

I wash my hands in innocenceand go around Your altar, Lord,

Then my head will be highabove my enemies around me;I will offer sacrifices in His tent with shouts of joy.I will sing and make music to the Lord.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

The Angel of the Lord encampsaround those who fear Him, and rescues them.

I am bent over and brought low;all day long I go around in mourning.

I told myself, "I will keep watch over my tongue to keep from sinning. I will muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around."

“Certainly, man walks about like a mere shadow.Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,gathering possessionswithout knowing who will get them.