'Four' in the Bible

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar. Four kings fought against five.

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him."

Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

"If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

You are to hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in four silver bases.

"You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze.

You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.

For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases.

You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl -- the first row;

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and make a surrounding border of gold for it.

and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts of olive oil.

He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

He cast four gold rings for it that he put on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings at the four corners where its four legs were.

On the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

He overlaid it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide -- it was square -- and its height was four feet six inches.

He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles.

with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.

They set on it four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl -- the first row;

But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.

Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan -- a total of four cities and their towns,

Anathoth, and Almon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Kibzaim, and Beth Horon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Aijalon, and Gath Rimmon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Jarmuth, and En Gannim, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Helkath, and Rehob, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Dimnah, and Nahalal, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Heshbon, and Jazer, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

So Abimelech and all his men came up at night and set an ambush outside Shechem -- they divided into four units.

Every year Israelite women commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.

However, she got angry at him and went home to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God's people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins -- they had never had sexual relations with a male. They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.

Then David instructed his men, "Each of you strap on your sword!" So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

The length of time that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year and four months.

David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.

Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!"

After four years Absalom said to the king, "Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the Lord while I was in Hebron.

These four were the descendants of Rapha who lived in Gath; they were killed by David and his soldiers.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, during the month Ziv (the second month), he began building the Lord's temple.

He named it "The Palace of the Lebanon Forest"; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold about 12,000 gallons.

Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and four supports. Under the basin the supports were fashioned on each side with wreaths.

The four wheels were under the frames and the crossbars of the axles were connected to the stand. Each wheel was two and one-quarter feet high.

Each stand had four supports, one per side projecting out from the stand.

the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

They sailed to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

Then he said, "Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood." When they had done so, he said, "Do it again." So they did it again. Then he said, "Do it a third time." So they did it a third time.

So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, "Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?" They said, "Attack! The sovereign one will hand it over to the king."

Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, "Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?

The Lord said to Jehu, "You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab's dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel."

His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord's word to Jehu, "Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel." That is exactly what happened.

Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

These were the sons born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon -- the mother of these four was Bathsheba the daughter of Ammiel.

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron -- four in all.

The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides -- east, west, north, and south.

The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God's sanctuary.

While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves.

The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These were Shimei's sons -- four in all.

The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel -- four in all.

Each day there were six Levites posted on the east, four on the north, and four on the south. At the storehouses they were posted in pairs.

At the court on the west there were four posted on the road and two at the court.

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.

and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough" --

There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:

Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up:

There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:

There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:

He will lift a signal flag for the nations; he will gather Israel's dispersed people and assemble Judah's scattered people from the four corners of the earth.

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten -- two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches," says the Lord God of Israel.

"I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.

As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire.

Their camels will be taken as plunder. Their vast herds will be taken as spoil. I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. I will bring disaster against them from every direction," says the Lord.

I will cause enemies to blow through Elam from every direction like the winds blowing in from the four quarters of heaven. I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds. There will not be any nation where the refugees of Elam will not go.

In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form,

but each had four faces and four wings.

They had human hands under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,