Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."
I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?" says the LORD: "shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]?" says your God.
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.
If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go into the house of the LORD:
Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."
The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
"Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?
When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
"Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says the LORD of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you."
I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."
It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."
Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
"To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
"I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.
I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
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