100 Bible Verses About Preparation

Bible verses about Preparation

Scripture reminds us that preparation is not merely a worldly endeavor, but a spiritual discipline, a testament to our faith and wisdom. Through diligent preparation, guided by the Holy Spirit, we honor God by stewarding our time, talents, and resources. These verses illuminate the profound importance of readying our hearts and minds for opportunities, challenges, and ultimately, eternity. Let the wisdom found within these passages inspire you to approach each day with intention, seeking God's guidance in preparing for His divine purpose in your life. Embrace preparation as an act of worship, a tangible expression of your trust in His unwavering provision and plan.

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Leviticus 1:6 (KJV)

And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.

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Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

Exodus 12:9KJV

And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

1 Samuel 11:8KJV

And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

Numbers 3:26KJV

And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

Exodus 28:32KJV

The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

Exodus 35:11KJV

Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:17KJV

Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

1 Samuel 26:13KJV

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

Genesis 39:1KJV

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

Genesis 31:17KJV

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

Exodus 39:40KJV

And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

Judges 4:10KJV

And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

2 Chronicles 32:6KJV

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 30:33KJV

See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

Exodus 31:2KJV

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

Psalms 45:14KJV

And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Exodus 14:6KJV

And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.

Exodus 35:26KJV

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

Proverbs 31:17KJV

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

Numbers 21:27KJV

And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.

Numbers 33:25KJV

So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

Judges 7:8KJV

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

Exodus 36:24KJV

And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.

Numbers 33:33KJV

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

Genesis 41:31KJV

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

Joshua 8:3KJV

So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

Esther 4:6KJV

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

Leviticus 25:3KJV

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

Exodus 36:27KJV

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:2KJV

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 16:22KJV

If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

Esther 5:8KJV

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

Exodus 38:6KJV

And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1 Kings 18:46KJV

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Exodus 25:10KJV

And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,

Numbers 4:31KJV

And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Numbers 33:48KJV

And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

1 Samuel 15:5KJV

Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.

1 Samuel 23:22KJV

Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

Ecclesiastes 10:9KJV

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

2 Samuel 22:35KJV

And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.

1 Samuel 25:20KJV

And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

Exodus 25:12KJV

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

Proverbs 30:25KJV

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 2:28KJV

And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

2 Chronicles 4:22KJV

The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 38:14KJV

And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

1 Samuel 17:14KJV

And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

Judges 7:11KJV

And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

Exodus 26:13KJV

And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

1 Kings 6:36KJV

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

Numbers 13:25KJV

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Numbers 26:63KJV

And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Joshua 8:12KJV

And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 28:8KJV

So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

Judges 7:5KJV

Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

1 Kings 2:1KJV

And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

1 Samuel 9:26KJV

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

Deuteronomy 20:20KJV

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Genesis 18:6KJV

And while they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 6:14KJV

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

Isaiah 49:2KJV

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

Judges 9:42KJV

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

2 Samuel 13:8KJV

And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Exodus 34:28KJV

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

Judges 7:6KJV

And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

Numbers 33:11KJV

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Proverbs 19:20KJV

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

Genesis 22:6KJV

And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

Exodus 40:7KJV

And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17:2KJV

And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.

Numbers 28:5KJV

And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

Exodus 35:28KJV

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Job 11:13KJV

And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.

Numbers 10:21KJV

And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.

Joshua 22:12KJV

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Ecclesiastes 11:4KJV

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:35KJV

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes–dammim.

1 Samuel 17:1KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

Exodus 30:34KJV

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Genesis 41:5KJV

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:19KJV

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

Numbers 1:52KJV

And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

Isaiah 57:14KJV

And he put them all together into ward three days.

Genesis 42:17KJV

And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

Joshua 6:10KJV

Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Exodus 38:10KJV

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

Exodus 38:5KJV

And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.

Leviticus 1:6KJV

And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

1 Samuel 25:13KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

Numbers 27:18KJV

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Genesis 41:27KJV

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

Exodus 39:13KJV

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

1 Kings 6:9KJV

The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

Esther 3:14KJV

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

Exodus 30:23KJV

Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

Exodus 25:27KJV

Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

Numbers 3:6KJV

And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

Exodus 37:29KJV

He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

Isaiah 10:28KJV

And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

Joshua 5:8KJV

In essence, these Bible verses on preparation reveal a God who values foresight, diligence, and spiritual readiness. They underscore the importance of preparing our hearts and minds for the opportunities and challenges life presents, both temporal and eternal. Whether it's building a physical structure, cultivating wisdom, or strengthening our faith, preparation is not merely a practical strategy, but an act of obedience and trust in God's providence. May these verses encourage you to reflect on your own life and identify areas where you can better prepare. Let us be diligent in sowing good seeds, building on solid foundations, and maintaining a heart ready to receive God's blessings and navigate His will, knowing that diligent preparation, combined with faith, yields a harvest of abundance and enduring strength.