'Took' in the Bible

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

And Job again took up the word and said,

And Job again took up the word and said,

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure.

They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

And he put the tent of Joseph on one side, and took not the tribe of Ephraim;

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.

And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:

And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.

And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;

And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.

He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's

And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.

And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.

And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:

But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:

For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.

For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.

But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.

Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

And so, truly, the days are coming when they will say no longer, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;

But, By the living Lord, who took up the seed of Israel, and made them come out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had sent them; and they will be living in the land which is theirs.

Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;

Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.

And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord's house.

And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.

Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem;

In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and it was broken by his hands.

Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.

So I took the paper witnessing the business, one copy rolled up and stamped, and one copy open:

And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them: