'Stop' in the Bible

For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you sons of Reuben and sons of Gad; you have no portion in the Lord.” So your sons may make our sons stop fearing the Lord.’

It came about at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.’”

Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

As he was talking with him, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped and said, “I know that God has planned to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you.”

So, now issue a decree to make these men stop work, that this city may not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

Our enemies said, “They will not know or see until we come among them, kill them and put a stop to the work.”

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

“Shall I wait, because they do not speak,Because they stop and no longer answer?

And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;And here shall your proud waves stop’?

Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;For why should he be esteemed?

They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him; moreover, he will repay him for his scorn.

Then I said,“Lord God, please stop!How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”

Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,Now they are fleeing;“Stop, stop,”But no one turns back.

Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”

But Jesus answered and said, “Stop! No more of this.” And He touched his ear and healed him.

But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”

Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”

for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.”