230 verses contain “Compass” (in the KJV: 157, in the BSB: 106) — showing 201–230
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Who
slew their young men with the sword,
yea, even within the
compass of their holy temple, and
spared neither young man nor
maid, old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their hands.
O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.
And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and had power over the world with great
fearfulness, and over the whole
compass of the earth with much wicked oppression; and so long time dwelt he upon the earth with
deceit.
As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains
compass her
womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they
slack not a moment:
He
compassed also all the children of Madian, and burned up their tabernacles, and
spoiled their sheepcotes.
Then the children of Israel
cried unto the Lord their God, because their heart failed, for all their enemies had
compassed them round about, and there was no way to escape out from among them.
And she put it in her
bag of meat: so they
twain went together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed the camp, they
compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.
Moreover, the nations in their wicked
conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him
blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender
compassion toward his son.
Therefore even with blindness were these
stricken, as those were at the doors of the righteous man: when, being
compassed about with
horrible great darkness, every one sought the passage of his own doors.
How great is the lovingkindness of the Lord our God, and his
compassion unto such as turn unto him in
holiness!
He saw and perceived their end to be evil; therefore he multiplied his
compassion.
A man that breaketh
wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who
seeth me? I am
compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body
seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:
I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.
It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.
And he
compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden bells round about, that as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a
memorial to the children of his people;
In his days the
cistern to receive water, being in
compass as the sea, was covered with plates of brass:
When he took the portions out of the priests’ hands, he himself stood by the
hearth of the altar,
compassed about, as a young
cedar in Libanus; and as palm trees
compassed they him round about.
They compassed me on every side, and there was no man to help me: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.
Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and
compassion.
And they saw the camp of the heathen, that it was strong and well
harnessed, and
compassed round about with
horsemen; and these were
expert of war.
Also that they had pulled down the
abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had
compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura.
And
Jonathan knew that there was an
ambushment behind him; for they had
compassed in his host, and cast darts at the people, from morning till evening.
So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;
And when he had
compassed the city round about, and joined ships close to the town on the sea side, he
vexed the city by land and by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in.
Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the
compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as
Antiochus was come in:
For the man was so
compassed with fear and
horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked upon him, what sorrow he had now in his heart.
And
Heliodorus fell suddenly unto the ground, and was
compassed with great darkness: but they that were with him took him up, and put him into a
litter.
And that he would have
compassion upon the city,
sore defaced, and ready to be made even with the ground; and hear the blood that
cried unto him,