'Midst' in the Bible

And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a man of valour, of great deeds, from Kabzeel: he hath smitten the two lion-like Moabites, and he hath gone down and smitten the lion in the midst of the pit, in the day of snow.

So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.

For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

And Jehoshabeath daughter of the king taketh Joash son of Ahaziah, and stealeth him from the midst of the sons of the king who are put to death, and putteth him and his nurse into the inner part of the bed-chambers, and Jehoshabeath daughter of king Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she hath been sister of Ahaziah, hideth him from the face of Athaliah, and she hath not put him to death.

In the midst of his troubles, King Ahaz became more and more unfaithful to the LORD.

So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

so that he doth seek in the book of the records of thy fathers, and thou dost find in the book of the records, and dost know, that this city is a rebellious city, and causing loss to kings and provinces, and makers of sedition are in its midst from the days of old, therefore hath this city been wasted.

And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Also, at that time I said to the people, 'Let each with his servant lodge in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by day for the work:'

And the city is broad on both sides, and great, and the people are few in its midst, and there are no houses builded;

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

But they in their kingdom in the midst of your great goodness that you gave them and in the large and fertile land that you provided them did not serve you or turn away from their evil deeds.

When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

and these days are remembered and kept in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, and city and city, and these days of Purim do not pass away from the midst of the Jews, and their memorial is not ended from their seed.

And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.

And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst to station himself by Jehovah.

And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.

Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.

To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst.

Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me .

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God."

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Then I will give you thanks in front of the great congregation; in the midst of the mighty throng I will praise you.

An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Thy righteousness I have not concealed In the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation I have told, I have not hidden Thy kindness and Thy truth, To the great assembly.

Your arrows [are] sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. To the Director: Upon . A Davidic instruction.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

I am surrounded by lions;I lie down with those who devour men.Their teeth are spears and arrows;their tongues are sharp swords.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

I thank Jehovah greatly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I praise Him,

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.

And bringing forth Israel from their midst, For to the age is His kindness.

And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us."

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

The ear of him who listens [to] admonitions of life, in the midst of the wise it will lodge.

A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.

He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

The sluggard saith, There is a fierce lion in the way; a lion is in the midst of the streets!

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

The Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) is left like a [deserted] shelter in a vineyard,Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city [isolated, surrounded by devastation].

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, that he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.

But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish [for with judgment comes the promise of salvation]. In earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He will make them honored [by the presence of the Messiah], by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.