100 Bible Verses About Safety

And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.

And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,

But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the Lord liveth.

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;

Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.

And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king’s servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, all the days of Solomon.

And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.

Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth–lehem.

And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?