Quotes about Survival
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
- Deuteronomy 28:54
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:55
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:57
So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
- Deuteronomy 28:66
Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
- Deuteronomy 33:6
Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
- Judges 3:26
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
- Judges 9:5
And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
- Judges 20:5
Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
- Ruth 1:3
and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
- 1 Samuel 18:11
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
- 1 Samuel 19:10
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
- 1 Samuel 19:11