'Alone' in the Bible

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this thing you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

“You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can’t do it alone.

If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with a wife, his wife is to leave with him.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.

“Whoever sacrifices to any gods, except the Lord alone, is to be set apart for destruction.

Moses alone is to approach the Lord, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

He will remain unclean as long as he has the infection; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,and I watch them from the hills.There is a people living alone;it does not consider itself among the nations.

He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

The Lord alone led him,with no help from a foreign god.

See now that I alone am He;there is no God but Me.I bring death and I give life;I wound and I heal.No one can rescue anyone from My hand.

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in his room upstairs where it was cool. Ehud said, “I have a word from God for you,” and the king stood up from his throne.

David went to Ahimelech the priest at Nob. Ahimelech was afraid to meet David, so he said to him, “Why are you alone and no one is with you?”

Then David said to Abishai and all his servants, “Look, my own son, my own flesh and blood, intends to take my life—how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse me; the Lord has told him to.

David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gate and over to the wall. The watchman looked out and saw a man running alone.

He called out and told the king.The king said, “If he’s alone, he bears good news.”As the first runner came closer,

the watchman saw another man running. He called out to the gatekeeper, “Look! Another man is running alone!”“This one is also bringing good news,” said the king.

On the third day after I gave birth, she also had a baby and we were alone. No one else was with us in the house; just the two of us were there.

may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,and may You forgive, act, and repay the man,according to all his ways, since You know his heart,for You alone know every human heart,

During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as Jeroboam came out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be put in the family tomb, because out of the house of Jeroboam the Lord God of Israel found something good only in him.

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts, but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”

“I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they’re looking for me to take my life.”

When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone—she is in severe anguish, and the Lord has hidden it from me. He hasn’t told me.”

Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord:Lord God of Israel who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are God—You alone—of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Now, Lord our God, please save us from his hand so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord God—You alone.

Then King David said to all the assembly, “My son Solomon—God has chosen him alone—is young and inexperienced. The task is great because the temple will not be for man but for the Lord God.

may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place,and may You forgive and repay the manaccording to all his ways, since You know his heart,for You alone know the human heart,

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other leaders of Israel’s families answered them, “You may have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for Yahweh, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”

Leave the construction of the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.

You alone are Yahweh.You created the heavens,the highest heavens with all their host,the earth and all that is on it,the seas and all that is in them.You give life to all of them,and the heavenly host worships You.

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “A lightning storm struck from heaven. It burned up the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

I give up! I will not live forever.Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Will You ever look away from me,or leave me alone long enough to swallow?

He alone stretches out the heavensand treads on the waves of the sea.

Are my days not few? Stop it!Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

the land was given to them alonewhen no foreigner passed among them.

Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!We don’t want to know Your ways.

They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”and “What can the Almighty do to us?”

if I have eaten my few crumbs alonewithout letting the fatherless eat any of it—

I will both lie down and sleep in peace,for You alone, Lord, make me live in safety.

Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am alone and afflicted.

He alone shapes their hearts;He considers all their works.

Against You—You alone—I have sinnedand done this evil in Your sight.So You are right when You pass sentence;You are blameless when You judge.

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I am at rest in God alone;my salvation comes from Him.

He alone is my rock and my salvation,my stronghold; I will never be shaken.

Rest in God alone, my soul,for my hope comes from Him.

He alone is my rock and my salvation,my stronghold; I will not be shaken.

I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord God;I will proclaim Your righteousness, Yours alone.

May the Lord God, the God of Israel,who alone does wonders, be praised.

May they know that You alone—whose name is Yahweh—are the Most High over all the earth.

For You are great and perform wonders;You alone are God.

He alone does great wonders.        His love is eternal.

Let them praise the name of Yahweh,for His name alone is exalted.His majesty covers heaven and earth.

They should be for you aloneand not for you to share with strangers.

If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?

Human pride will be humbled,and the loftiness of men will be brought low;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

So human pride will be brought low,and the loftiness of men will be humbled;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Woe to those who add house to houseand join field to fielduntil there is no more roomand you alone are left in the land.

Yahweh our God, lords other than You have ruled over us,but we remember Your name alone.

One thousand will flee at the threat of one,at the threat of five you will flee,until you alone remainlike a solitary pole on a mountaintopor a banner on a hill.

Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are God—You alone—of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord—You alone.

I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed—and not some foreign god among you.So you are My witnesses”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I am God.

Also, from today on I am He alone,and none can deliver from My hand.I act, and who can reverse it?”

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says:I am Yahweh, who made everything;who stretched out the heavens by Myself;who alone spread out the earth;

I trampled the winepress alone,and no one from the nations was with Me.I trampled them in My angerand ground them underfoot in My fury;their blood spattered My garments,and all My clothes were stained.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?Or can the skies alone give showers?Are You not the Lord our God?We therefore put our hope in You,for You have done all these things.

I never sat with the band of revelers,and I did not celebrate with them.Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone,for You filled me with indignation.

Rise up, go up against a nation at ease,one living in security.This is the Lord’s declaration.They have no doors, not even a gate bar;they live alone.

How she sits alone,the city once crowded with people!She who was great among the nationshas become like a widow.The princess among the provinceshas been put to forced labor.

י YodLet him sit alone and be silent,for God has disciplined him.

While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord God! Are You going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

This holy donation will be set apart for the priests alone. It will be 8⅓ miles long on the northern side, 3⅓ miles wide on the western side, 3⅓ miles wide on the eastern side, and 8⅓ miles long on the southern side. The Lord’s sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.

Ephraim is attached to idols;leave him alone!

They will not pour outtheir wine offerings to the Lord,and their sacrifices will not please Him.Their food will be like the bread of mourners;all who eat it become defiled.For their bread will be for their appetites alone;it will not enter the house of the Lord.

Shepherd Your people with Your staff,the flock that is Your possession.They live alone in a woodlandsurrounded by pastures.Let them graze in Bashan and Gileadas in ancient times.

On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth—Yahweh alone, and His name alone.

But He answered, “It is written:Man must not live on bread alonebut on every word that comesfrom the mouth of God.”

When Jesus heard about it, He withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed Him on foot from the towns.

After dismissing the crowds, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, He was there alone.

Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”