1. Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
2. 2 Samuel 1:2
On the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and dust on his head. And it came about when he came to David that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.
3. Psalm 72:9
Let the nomads of the desert bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
4. Genesis 33:3
But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
5. Genesis 43:26-28
When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which was in their hand and bowed to the ground before him. Then he asked them about their welfare, and said, “Is your old father well, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?” They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” They bowed down in homage.
6. Genesis 49:8
“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
7. Exodus 11:8
All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
8. Exodus 18:7
Then Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.
9. Ruth 2:10
Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favour in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”
10. 1 Samuel 2:36
Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, “Please assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’
11. 1 Samuel 24:8
Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.
12. 1 Samuel 25:23
When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed herself to the ground.
13. 2 Samuel 15:5
And when a man came near to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.
14. 2 Samuel 18:28
Ahimaaz called and said to the king, “All is well.” And he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground. And he said, “Blessed is the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted their hands against my lord the king.”
15. 1 Kings 1:16
Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself before the king. And the king said, “What do you wish?”
16. 1 Chronicles 21:21
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground.
17. Isaiah 49:23
“Kings will be your guardians, and their princesses your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet; and you will know that I am the Lord; those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.
18. Genesis 18:2
When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth.
19. Genesis 19:1
Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
20. Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed all the way to the ground.
21. Luke 24:5
And as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?
22. Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshipped.
23. 2 Chronicles 20:18
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshipping the Lord.
24. Psalm 95:6
Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
25. Genesis 17:3
Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying…
26. Genesis 24:26
Then the man bowed low and worshipped the Lord.
27. Exodus 12:27
You shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshipped.
28. Exodus 34:8
Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.
29. Deuteronomy 26:10
Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O Lord have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God;
30. Deuteronomy 33:3
“Indeed, He loves the people; all Your holy ones are in Your hand, and they followed in Your steps; everyone receives of Your words.
31. 1 Kings 1:47
Moreover, the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.
32. 2 Kings 17:36
But the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, and to Him you shall bow yourselves down, and to Him you shall sacrifice.
33. 1 Chronicles 29:20
Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed low and did homage to the Lord and to the king.
34. 2 Chronicles 29:28
While the whole assembly worshiped, the singers also sang and the trumpets sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
35. Nehemiah 8:6
Then Ezra blessed the Lord the great God. And all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands; then they bowed low and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
36. Psalm 22:27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will worship before You.
37. Isaiah 66:23
“And it shall be from new moon to new moon
And from sabbath to sabbath, all mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says the Lord.
38. Psalm 5:7
But as for me, by Your abundant lovingkindness I will enter Your house, at Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You.
39. Psalm 138:2
I will bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; for You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.
40. Exodus 32:8
They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”
41. 2 Kings 17:16
They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
42. Isaiah 2:8
Their land has also been filled with idols; they worship the work of their hands, that which their fingers have made.
43. Numbers 25:2
For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
44. Deuteronomy 29:26
They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.
45. 2 Kings 21:3
For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
46. 2 Chronicles 25:14
Now after Amaziah came from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down before them and burned incense to them.
47. Isaiah 44:17
But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”
48. Ezekiel 8:16
Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.
49. Micah 5:13
“I will cut off your carved images and your sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.
50. Matthew 2:11
After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
51. Philippians 2:10
So that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth…
52. Matthew 8:2
And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
53. Matthew 9:18
While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”
54. Matthew 15:25
But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”
55. Matthew 27:29
And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
56. Mark 5:6
Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him;
57. Mark 10:17
As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
58. Luke 17:16
And he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan.
59. Psalm 35:14
I went about as though it were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.
60. Psalm 145:14
The Lord sustains all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.
61. Psalm 38:6
I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go mourning all day long.
62. Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they dug a pit before me; they themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.
63. Psalm 146:8
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; the Lord raises up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous…
64. Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
