Quotes About Isolation

the priest is to order the contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven days.

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.

Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.

They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.

But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

After the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.

So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his fatherís household heard about it, they went down to him there.

The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.

Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”

Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.

When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.

When you arrive, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his companions, and take him to an inner room.

So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.

Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.