But Jacob insisted, "Swear it by an oath right now." So he swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

"No," he insisted, "but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable."

"I'm right!" Joseph insisted. "Just as I said, you're spies!

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Yet Edom insisted, “You must not travel through.” And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people.

The people refused to listen to Samuel. Instead, they insisted, "No! Let a king rule over us instead!

One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

But Elisha replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you." Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.

Naaman said, "Please accept two talents of silver. He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.

(The Chorus)“Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where is your beloved hiding himself,
That we may seek him with you?”

For long ago I broke your yoke;
I tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.

They have contradicted the Lord
and insisted, “It won’t happen.
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”