'Listen' in the Bible

But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God.

However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.

Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us."

But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, you peoples, all of you!"

and he said, "Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat. Thus says Yahweh to you, 'Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you shall be established! Believe his prophets, so you shall prosper."

But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned.

"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

"I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:

"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'

"However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."

"Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

"Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.

which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.

Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.

I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

He said, "Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."

Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:

"Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.

"Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen!'

but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:

But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.