100 Bible Verses About Shelter

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.

And they departed from Rimmon–parez, and pitched in Libnah.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

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

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

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

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

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

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En–gedi.

The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

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.

Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,

In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

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.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.

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

Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth–lehem–judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth–lehem–judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.

And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.