Stayed

But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

Gilead remained beyond the Jordan. Dan, why did you linger by the ships? Asher stayed at the coast and remained in his harbors.

Abimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.

And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.

But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.

And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

…and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men strapped on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind

Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.”

After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.

The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come stayed by themselves in the open country.

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

And each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.

In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

…where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter.

Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

When those days were over and they were returning home, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware He had stayed.

When Jesus stepped ashore, He was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothing or lived in a house, but he stayed in the tombs.

After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.

Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.

So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

So Saul stayed with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.

And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.

From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.

…and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.

He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed for a time in the province of Asia.

…where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.

We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.

Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.

Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.