100 Bible Verses About Contemplation

For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:

The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,

The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house.

The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.