43 Bible Verses About Search

And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

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.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

Therefore they enquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither. And the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.

And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

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

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.