Lexicon :: Strong's H7812 - šāḥâ

All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the LORD came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshiped and praised the LORD:

For he is good,

for his faithful love endures forever.

Then Jehoshaphat knelt low with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship him.

However, after Jehoiada died, the rulers of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them,

After Amaziah came from the attack on the Edomites, he brought the gods of the Seirites and set them up as his gods. He worshiped before them and burned incense to them.

The whole assembly was worshiping, singing the song, and blowing the trumpets ​— ​all this continued until the burnt offering was completed.

Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove his high places and his altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it”?

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.

Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted all the people said, “Amen, Amen! ” Then they knelt low and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

While they stood in their places, they read from the book of the law of the LORD their God for a fourth of the day and spent another fourth of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.

The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

But I enter your house

by the abundance of your faithful love;

I bow down toward your holy temple

in reverential awe of you.

All the ends of the earth will remember

and turn to the LORD.

All the families of the nations

will bow down before you,

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

worship the LORD

in the splendor of his holiness.[fn]

and the king will desire your beauty.

Bow down to him, for he is your lord.

“The whole earth will worship you

and sing praise to you.

They will sing praise to your name.”Selah

Let all kings bow in homage to him,

all nations serve him.

“There must not be a strange god among you;

you must not bow down to a foreign god.

All the nations you have made

will come and bow down before you, Lord,

and will honor your name.

Come, let’s worship and bow down;

let’s kneel before the LORD our Maker.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness;

let the whole earth tremble before him.

All who serve carved images,

those who boast in worthless idols, will be put to shame.

All the gods[fn] must worship him.

Exalt the LORD our God;

bow in worship at his footstool.

He is holy.

At Horeb they made a calf

and worshiped the cast metal image.

Let’s go to his dwelling place;

let’s worship at his footstool.

I will bow down toward your holy temple

and give thanks to your name

for your constant love and truth.

You have exalted your name

and your promise above everything else.[fn]

Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down,

but a good word cheers it up.

Their land is full of worthless idols;

they worship the work of their hands,

what their fingers have made.

On that day

a great ram’s horn will be blown,

and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,

as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;

and they will worship the LORD

at Jerusalem on the holy mountain.

“Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the LORD our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

A person can use it for fuel.

He takes some of it and warms himself;

also he kindles a fire and bakes bread;

he even makes it into a god and worships it;

he makes an idol from it and bows down to it.

This is what the LORD says:

“The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush

and the Sabeans, men of stature,

will come over to you

and will be yours;

they will follow you,

they will come over in chains

and bow down to you.

They will confess[fn] to you,

‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other;

there is no other God.’ ”

“Those who pour out their bags of gold

and weigh out silver on scales —

they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god.

Then they kneel and bow down to it.

This is what the LORD,

the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says

to one who is despised,

to one abhorred by people,[fn]

to a servant of rulers:

“Kings will see, princes will stand up,

and they[fn] will all bow down

because of the LORD, who is faithful,

the Holy One of Israel ​— ​and he has chosen you.”

“I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,

who said to you,

‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like a street for those who walk on it.

The sons of your oppressors

will come and bow down to you;

all who reviled you

will fall facedown at your feet.

They will call you the City of the LORD,

Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

“All humanity will come to worship me

from one New Moon to another

and from one Sabbath to another,”

says the LORD.

“I will pronounce my judgments against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.