Biblical Concept: Flee

Findings:

"Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD is fighting for them against the Egyptians."

“let those who hate Thee flee before Thee”

Killed unintentionally: “cities of refuge” … “manslayer to flee to”

Flee from Absalom.

Leviathan: “The arrow cannot make him flee.”

^NAS Psalm 31:11 Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach, Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the street flee from me.

God’s enemies: “let those who hate Him flee before Him.”

^NAS Psalm 139:7 Where can I go from Thy Spirit? Or where can I flee from Thy presence? (All)

^NAS Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion. (All)

Israel: “in the day of punishment” … “To whom will you flee for help?”

Nations: He will rebuke them and they will flee far away.

“sorrow and sighing will flee away”

^NAS Jeremiah 51:6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is the LORD's time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her. (All)

“Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD”

^NAS Matthew 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the Child and His mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him."

^NAS Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

^NAS Matthew 24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;

“abomination of desolation” … “flee to the mountains”

Flock: stranger, flee from him.

“Flee immorality.”

“flee from idolatry”

Flee love of money.

“flee from youthful lusts”

^NAS James 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

“Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

Theorem: Submit, God, resist, devil, flee.

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^NAS Genesis 19:20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved."

^NAS Genesis 27:43 "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!

^NAS Genesis 31:27 "Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre;

^NAS Exodus 9:20 The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;

^NAS Exodus 14:25 And He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD is fighting for them against the Egyptians." ("Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD is fighting for them against the Egyptians.")

^NAS Exodus 21:13 "But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

^NAS Leviticus 26:17 'And I will set My face against you so that you shall be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one is pursuing you.

³⁶ 'As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them and even when no one is pursuing, they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.

^NAS Numbers 10:35 Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said, "Rise up, O LORD! And let Thine enemies be scattered, And let those who hate Thee flee before Thee." (“let those who hate Thee flee before Thee”)

^NAS Numbers 24:11 "Therefore, flee to your place now. I said I would honor you greatly, but behold, the LORD has held you back from honor."

^NAS Numbers 35:6 "And the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

¹¹ then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has killed any person unintentionally may flee there. (Killed unintentionally: “cities of refuge” … “manslayer to flee to”.)

¹⁵ 'These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

²⁶ 'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

^NAS Deuteronomy 4:42 that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

^NAS Deuteronomy 19:3 "You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land, which the LORD your God will give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there.

⁴ "Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously--

⁵ as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies-- he may flee to one of these cities and live;

^NAS Deuteronomy 28:7 "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and shall flee before you seven ways.

²⁵ "The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, but you shall flee seven ways before them, and you shall be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

^NAS Joshua 8:5 "Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And it will come about when they come out to meet us as at the first, that we will flee before them.

⁶ "And they will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, 'They are fleeing before us as at the first.' So we will flee before them.

²⁰ When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.

^NAS Joshua 20:3 that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.

⁴ 'And he shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them.

⁹ These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.

^NAS Judges 20:32 And the sons of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the sons of Israel said, "Let us flee that we may draw them away from the city to the highways."

^NAS 2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the report of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

^NAS 2 Samuel 15:14 And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise and let us flee, for otherwise none of us shall escape from Absalom. Go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down calamity on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword." (Flee from Absalom.)

^NAS 2 Samuel 17:2 "And I will come upon him while he is weary and exhausted and will terrify him so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone,

^NAS 2 Samuel 18:3 But the people said, "You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not care about us, even if half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city."

^NAS 2 Samuel 19:3 So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

^NAS 2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me."

^NAS 1 Kings 12:18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

^NAS 2 Kings 9:3 "Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, "I have anointed you king over Israel."' Then open the door and flee and do not wait."

^NAS 2 Chronicles 10:18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the sons of Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

^NAS Nehemiah 6:11 But I said, "Should a man like me flee? And could one such as I go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in."

^NAS Job 9:25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.

^NAS Job 20:24 "He may flee from the iron weapon, But the bronze bow will pierce him.

^NAS Job 27:22 "For it will hurl at him without sparing; He will surely try to flee from its power.

^NAS Job 41:28 "The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him. (Leviathan: “The arrow cannot make him flee.”)

^NAS Psalm 11:1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. In the LORD I take refuge; How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain;

^NAS Psalm 31:11 Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach, Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the street flee from me. (All)

^NAS Psalm 68:1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; And let those who hate Him flee before Him. (God’s enemies: “let those who hate Him flee before Him.”)

¹² "Kings of armies flee, they flee, And she who remains at home will divide the spoil!"

^NAS Psalm 114:5 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

^NAS Psalm 139:7 Where can I go from Thy Spirit? Or where can I flee from Thy presence? (All)

^NAS Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion. (All)

^NAS Song of Solomon 2:17 "Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle Or a young stag on the mountains of Bether."

^NAS Song of Solomon 4:6 "Until the cool of the day When the shadows flee away, I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh And to the hill of frankincense.

^NAS Isaiah 10:3 Now what will you do in the day of punishment, And in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth? (Israel: “in the day of punishment” … “To whom will you flee for help?”)

^NAS Isaiah 13:14 And it will be that like a hunted gazelle, Or like sheep with none to gather them, They will each turn to his own people, And each one flee to his own land.

^NAS Isaiah 17:13 The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale. (Nations: He will rebuke them and they will flee far away.)

^NAS Isaiah 30:16 And you said, "No, for we will flee on horses," Therefore you shall flee! "And we will ride on swift horses," Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

¹⁷ One thousand shall flee at the threat of one man, You shall flee at the threat of five; Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top, And as a signal on a hill.

^NAS Isaiah 33:3 At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; At the lifting up of Thyself nations disperse.

^NAS Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD will return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. (“sorrow and sighing will flee away”)

^NAS Isaiah 48:20 Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this, Send it out to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob."

^NAS Isaiah 51:11 So the ransomed of the LORD will return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion; And everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

^NAS Jeremiah 6:1 "Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem! Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa, And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem; For evil looks down from the north, And a great destruction.

^NAS Jeremiah 46:6 Let not the swift man flee, Nor the mighty man escape; In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.

^NAS Jeremiah 48:6 "Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

⁹ "Give wings to Moab, For she will flee away; And her cities will become a desolation, Without inhabitants in them.

^NAS Jeremiah 49:8 "Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.

²⁴ "Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.

³⁰ "Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor," declares the LORD; "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you And devised a scheme against you.

^NAS Jeremiah 50:16 "Cut off the sower from Babylon, And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest; From before the sword of the oppressor They will each turn back to his own people, And they will each flee to his own land.

^NAS Jeremiah 51:6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is the LORD's time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her. (All)

^NAS Daniel 4:14 'He shouted out and spoke as follows: "Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the beasts flee from under it, And the birds from its branches.

^NAS Amos 2:16 "Even the bravest among the warriors will flee naked in that day," declares the LORD.

^NAS Amos 7:12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah, and there eat bread and there do your prophesying!

^NAS Amos 9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said, "Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, And break them on the heads of them all! Then I will slay the rest of them with the sword; They will not have a fugitive who will flee, Or a refugee who will escape.

^NAS Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. (“Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD”)

^NAS Nahum 3:17 Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.

^NAS Zechariah 2:6 "Ho there! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens," declares the LORD.

^NAS Zechariah 14:5 And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!

^NAS Matthew 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the Child and His mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him." (All)

^NAS Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (All)

^NAS Matthew 10:23 "But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you shall not finish going through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man comes.

^NAS Matthew 24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; (All)

^NAS Mark 13:14 "But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. (“abomination of desolation” … “flee to the mountains”)

^NAS Luke 3:7 He therefore began saying to the multitudes who were going out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

^NAS Luke 21:21 "Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of the city depart, and let not those who are in the country enter the city;

^NAS John 10:5 "And a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." (Flock: stranger, flee from him.)

^NAS 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. (“Flee immorality.”)

^NAS 1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. (“flee from idolatry”)

^NAS 1 Timothy 6:11 But flee from these things, you man of God; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. (Flee verses 9-10.) (1 Timothy 6:9-10 ⁹ But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang.) (Flee love of money.)

^NAS 2 Timothy 2:22 Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. (“flee from youthful lusts”)

^NAS James 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (“Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”) (Theorem: Submit, God, resist, devil, flee.)

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