Search: 61 results

Exact Match

Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, "Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury."

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesBeelzebubHealingHousesSuffering, Causes OfPeople Falling From A HeightUpper Rooms

They replied, "A man came up to meet us. He told us, "Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, 'This is what the Lord says: "You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die."'"

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon Happen

The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, "Prophet, the king says, 'Come down!'"

Verse ConceptsFiftiesMan Going DownMan Of Godorganization

The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, "Prophet, this is what the king says, 'Come down at once!'"

Verse ConceptsFiftiesMan Going DownHurrying Others OnMan Of God

The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, "Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsKneelingBeggingFiftiesKept Alive By MenThird PersonMan Of God

Elijah said to the king, "This is what the Lord says, 'You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. You must think there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek an oracle! Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.'"

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon Happen

Elijah told Elisha, "Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

Verse ConceptsGood FriendsBest friendIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfCompanionshipMotionlessnessStaying Put

Elijah said to him, "Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho." But he replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.

Verse ConceptsCompanionship

Elijah said to him, "Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan." But he replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they traveled on together.

Verse ConceptsCompanionshipGoing TogetherMotionlessnessStaying Put

They said to him, "Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys." But Elisha replied, "Don't send them out."

Verse ConceptsThe Spirit Of The LordFifties

But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, "Send them out." They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah.

Verse ConceptsembarrassmentFiftiesThree DaysNot Finding

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He would send as tribute to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

Verse ConceptsLambsRamsSheepShepherds, As OccupationsTributesWoolOwning LivestockOne Hundred Thousand And More

He sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?" Jehoshaphat replied, "I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal."

Verse ConceptsFighting TogetherPeople Are The SameAcquiring Horses

She called to her husband, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return."

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

The king of Syria said, "Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So Naaman went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten suits of clothes.

Verse ConceptsCoinageGenerosity, HumanGoldTen ThingsPeople Giving Clothes

He brought the letter to king of Israel. It read: "This is a letter of introduction for my servant Naaman, whom I have sent to be cured of his skin disease."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyHealing Lepersgays

When Elisha the prophet heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, "Why did you tear your clothes? Send him to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel."

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesKnowing PeopleThose Who Tore ClothesMan Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutBodyMedicineMessengerRivers And StreamsWashingMiracles Of ElishaSeven TimesIn The Jordan

He answered, "Everything is fine. My master sent me with this message, 'Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. Please give them a talent of silver and two suits of clothes.'"

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitHillsLying, Examples OfPeople Giving ClothesSons Of The ProphetsTwo Other ThingsTwo Other Men

When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way.

Verse ConceptsSending people home

But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, "Make sure you don't pass through this place because Syria is invading there."

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsMan Of God

So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions.

Verse ConceptsWarning Individuals

The king ordered, "Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him." The king was told, "He is in Dothan."

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

Verse ConceptsChariotsEnemies SurroundingAttacking With ChariotsEarthly ArmiesNations Attacking Israel

So he threw a big banquet for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.

Verse ConceptsDinner

Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. The king sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the leaders, "Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?" Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him."

Verse ConceptsMessengerRemoving HeadsShutting DoorsKilling ProphetsSkullsSoundThe Elders Gathered

One of his advisers replied, "Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people -- we're all going to die!) Let's send them out so we can know for sure what's going on."

Verse ConceptsFive AnimalsLike Bad People

So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them, "Go and find out what's going on."

Verse ConceptsTwo Other ThingsLooking And Seeing

So Hazael went to visit Elisha. He took along a gift, as well as forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, "Your son, King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanPresents

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu's troops approaching. He said, "I see troops!" Jehoram ordered, "Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, 'Is everything all right?'"

Verse ConceptsFortificationsWatchman

So he sent a second horseman out to them and he said, "This is what the king says, 'Is everything all right?'" Jehu replied, "None of your business! Follow me."

Verse ConceptsUnrelated Things

Ahab had seventy sons living in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the leading officials of Jezreel and to the guardians of Ahab's dynasty. This is what the letters said,

Verse ConceptsGovernorsGuardiansSeventies

So the palace supervisor, the city commissioner, the leaders, and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, "We are your subjects! Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper."

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersGovernorsPalaces

When they received the letter, they seized the king's sons and executed all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfSeventiesKilling Sons And Daughters

Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end.

Verse ConceptsTemples, HeathenFilling HousesFollowers Of Baal

King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord's temple and the royal palace. He sent it all to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsGoldSacrilegeTreasuriesMoney For The Temple

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel. He said, "Come, let's meet face to face."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutList Of Kings Of Israel

King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, "A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, 'Give your daughter to my son as a wife.' Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn.

Verse ConceptsCedarFablesThornsSarcasmThistlesOld Testament ParablesGiving In Marriage

Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him and they killed him there.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesPlottingKilling KingsConspiracy

Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your dependent. March up and rescue me from the power of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked me."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutAliancesInvitationsServanthood, In SocietyAllegiances

Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were in the Lord's temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute to the king of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsGiftsMoney For The TempleTaking Mixed Metals

When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtAltars, PaganDesign

Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.

Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, "Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands."

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceProphets, Role OfRepentance, Nature OfSeersSin, God's Remedy ForInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfGod Spoke By The ProphetsKeep The Commandments!Old Testament Claims Inspirationprophets

When they first moved in, they did not worship the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

Verse ConceptsAnimals KillingNo Fear Of God

The king of Assyria was told, "The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land."

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God

King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, "I have violated our treaty. If you leave, I will do whatever you demand." So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

Verse ConceptsCoinageTreatyWe Have Sinned

The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.

Verse ConceptsCommanderLargenessOccupationsSiegesActual Attacks On JerusalemWater ChannelLarge Armies

But the chief adviser said to them, "My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you."

Verse ConceptsSiegesRepulsive FoodDefecationUrinatingpoop

Don't listen to Hezekiah!' For this is what the king of Assyria says, 'Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Verse ConceptsCisternsVinesDo Not Listen!Surrender

He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

Verse ConceptsOfficersScribesSecretaryNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.'"

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfGod, Living And Self sustainingRemnantRidicule, Objects OfSurvivors FavouredPray For UsWill God Pay Attention?

The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

Verse ConceptsAfricaMessengers Sent Out

Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringGod, Living And Self sustainingPay Attention O God!

Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: "This is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidGod Answered PrayerGod Paid Attention To Me

At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

Verse ConceptsGiftsLeaders, Political

In the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord's temple with these orders:

and she said to them: "This is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'Say this to the man who sent you to me:

Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: "This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodGod Spoke By The Prophets