'Heaven' in the Bible

who also said, "Men {of Galilee}, why do you stand there looking into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven like this will come back in the same way you saw him departing into heaven!"

And suddenly a sound like a violent rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

And I will cause wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all [things], about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among people by which we must be saved."

And [when they] heard [it], they lifted [their] voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you [are] the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me [for] forty years in the wilderness, [did you], house of Israel?

'Heaven [is] my throne and earth [is] the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what [is the] place of my rest?

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven [and] saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Now as [he] proceeded, it happened that [when] he approached Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

And he saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down to the earth by its four corners,

And this happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision--an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, '[The things] which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'

And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again.

and saying, "Men, why are you doing these [things]? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news [that] you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things [that are] in them--

And yet he did not leave himself without witness [by] doing good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying [you] with food and your hearts with gladness."

the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

And [when] the city secretary had quieted the crowd, he said, "Ephesian men, for who is there among men who does not know the Ephesian city is honorary temple keeper of the great Artemis and of [her] image fallen from heaven?

"And it happened that [as] I was traveling and approaching Damascus around noon, suddenly a very bright light from heaven flashed around me,

In the middle of the day along the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more than the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those who were traveling with me.