56 Verses About Quiet from 25 Books

1 Chronicles 4:40

They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.

1 Chronicles 22:9

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

1 Peter 3:4

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

1 Timothy 2:11

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

1 Timothy 2:12

But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.



2 Chronicles 14:1

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

2 Chronicles 14:5

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

2 Chronicles 14:6

He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because the LORD had given him rest.

2 Chronicles 20:30

So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest all around.

2 Chronicles 23:21

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword.

2 Kings 11:20

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.



2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Acts 19:35

When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

Acts 19:36

Seeing then that these things can't be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

Acts 22:2

When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 9:17

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

Additions to Esther 6:2

"After I became lord over many nations and had dominion over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority, but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and make my kingdom peaceable and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace, which is desired of all men.



Additions to Esther 13:8

And we must take care for the time to come, that our kingdom may be quiet and peaceable for all men,

Ezekiel 16:42

So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

Genesis 25:27

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Isaiah 14:7

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,

Isaiah 32:17

The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.



Isaiah 32:18

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Isaiah 33:20

Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

Isaiah 42:14

"I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 30:10

Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 46:27

But don't you be afraid, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 47:6

You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.



Jeremiah 47:7

How can you be quiet, since the LORD has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.

Jeremiah 49:23

Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.

Jeremiah 50:34

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Job 3:26

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

Job 20:20

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

Job 21:23

One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 34:29

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

Judges 16:2

[It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

Judges 18:7

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.

Judges 18:27

They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Luke 18:39

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

Mark 1:25

Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

Mark 10:48

Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

Mark 14:61

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

Matthew 20:31

The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

Psalms 35:20

For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Psalms 131:2

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Zechariah 6:8

Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country."





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