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Then in the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord; though they testified against them, they would not listen.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In IsraelConversion, God's demands forProphets, Role OfObstinacy Against Godprophets

Now it happened at the turn of the year that the army of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

Verse ConceptsInvasions

But the troops whom Amaziah sent back from going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 of them and plundered much spoil.

Verse ConceptsThree Thousand And UpTwelve Beings

Then the anger of the Lord burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people who have not delivered their own people from your hand?”

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face each other.”

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon and trampled the thorn bush.

Verse ConceptsCedarThornsTwelve Beings

From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the Lord they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forTwelve Beings

At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria for help.

Now Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsLettersPilgrimageRevival, CorporateSamaritans

After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfAbaseAbasement, Examples OfGod Killed The PeoplesAngels Activities Among UnbelieversMiracles Involving Military Victory

Even in the matter of the envoys of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone only to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

Verse ConceptsenvoyProving, Through TestingRulersTesting

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah an official of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

Verse ConceptsPurification

She said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Tell the man who sent you to Me,

But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus you will say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel regarding the words which you have heard,

Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you.”

Verse ConceptsConfrontationResistanceHasteWhat Have We In Common?

At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the Lord, and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsSacrilege

The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place;

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfMediatorRejection Of GodSpeech, Divine

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia—in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah—the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

Verse ConceptsHuman WillHeart, Human

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying:

Verse ConceptsHuman WillProclamationsImpulsesWords To Individuals FulfilledThe First Temple

this is the copy of the letter which they sent to him:“To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men in the region beyond the River, and now

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingServanthood, In SocietyCopies Of DocumentsBeyond The RiverBeyond The Euphrates

Now because we are in the service of the palace, and it is not fitting for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

Verse ConceptsSaltLosing HonourSourness

Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the commander, to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the River: “Peace. And now

Verse ConceptsGreetingsAnswering PeopleBeyond The RiverNamed Gentile RulersBeyond The Euphrates

the document which you sent to us has been translated and read before me.

Verse ConceptsLiteracyReading Other Matter

This is the copy of the letter which Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his colleagues the officials, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsCopies Of DocumentsBeyond The RiverNamed Gentile Rulers

They sent a report to him in which it was written thus: “To Darius the king, all peace.

Verse ConceptsGreetings

“Now if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, if it be that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.”

Verse ConceptsArchivesStoringSeeking For Concrete ThingsThe King's Orders

Then Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues carried out the decree with all diligence, just as King Darius had sent.

Verse ConceptsBeyond The RiverNamed Gentile Rulers

Forasmuch as you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleVolunteering

So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, teachers.

I sent them to Iddo the leading man at the place Casiphia; and I told them what to say to Iddo and his brothers, the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that is, to bring ministers to us for the house of our God.

Verse ConceptsTemple Assistants

I said to the king, “If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldTravelRebuilding JerusalemThe Will Of MenFavorExamples Of Patriotismrebuilding

Then the king said to me, the queen sitting beside him, “How long will your journey be, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a definite time.

Verse ConceptsJourneyQueensBefore People ActWhen?People Sending People

Then I came to the governors of the provinces beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.

Verse ConceptsBeyond The River

then Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

Verse ConceptsTreacheryCharacter Of WickedMischiefMeeting People

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutLazinessCessationGreat Things

They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.

Verse ConceptsFourfold

Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same manner a fifth time with an open letter in his hand.

Verse ConceptsLettersFractions, One FifthFifthThings Manifest

Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Verse ConceptsHeadsIndividuals Who LiedEverything Happening For A Reasonimaginationrumors

Then I perceived that surely God had not sent him, but he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual PerceptionGod Not Sending

Moreover, they were speaking about his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. Then Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.

Verse ConceptsPraising Specific PeopleFear Of Individuals

Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Verse ConceptsFeastingBeing BlessedLeisure, And PastimesLove FeastPromised JoyEating Before GodSitting In DejectionDo Not MournGod Our StrengthAlcoholic BeveragesJoyStrength In Hard TimesHope And StrengthCelebrationHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying Lifestrenghcelebratingfriendliness

All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been made known to them.

Verse ConceptsEating And DrinkingUnderstanding God's Word

So he sent letters to all the king’s provinces, to each province according to its script and to every people according to their language, that every man should be the master in his own house and the one who speaks in the language of his own people.

Verse ConceptsLanguages ConfusedAuthority Of PeopleAlphabet

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

Then Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai that he might remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.

Verse ConceptsClothing, Need OfAnxiety, Examples OfPeople Giving Clothes

Haman controlled himself, however, went to his house and sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horses, riding on steeds sired by the royal stud.

Verse ConceptsMulesSealing The MessageRiding Horses

Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

He sent letters to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, namely, words of peace and truth,

Verse ConceptsA Hundred And Some

His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, ActivitiesInvitationsLeisure, And PastimesAmusementsCelebrationcelebrating

When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Verse ConceptsCustomBad ParentsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenRising Early, Examples OfFamilies, Examples OfMorning DevotionsBurnt offeringOfferingsSonsWorldly Pleasures, Leads ToParents Duty To ChildrenRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyCursing GodMaking People HolyEarly RisingSacrificeKidsRoses

“You forever overpower him and he departs;
You change his appearance and send him away.

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it on him while he is eating.

Verse ConceptsRainPeople EatingGod Will Be Angryventing

“They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.

Verse ConceptsDancingLeisure, And PastimesAmusements Of ChildrenRecreation

“You have sent widows away empty,
And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsNot Helping Widows

“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Verse ConceptsLightning

“Who sent out the wild donkey free?
And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Verse ConceptsRopesWild DonkeysGod Freeing Captives

He sent out His arrows, and scattered them,
And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.

Verse ConceptsGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrowscrusades

He sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other PlacesThe Oceantransition

May He send you help from the sanctuary
And support you from Zion!

Verse ConceptsGod Help!God's ProtectionPeace And StrengthSupporthelpzion

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

Verse ConceptsenlightenmentGuidance, Receiving God'sSaints, As PilgrimsGod Giving LightGod's Truth

He will send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah.
God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth.

Verse ConceptsGod Saving From EnemiesPsalm InterjectionsGod's Truthrebukingharassment

Man did eat the bread of angels;
He sent them food in abundance.

Verse ConceptsDelicaciesAngelsevangelising

He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsFliesFrogsInsectsbugs

He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

The king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By Peoplefree

He sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not rebel against His words.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSupernatural Darkness

So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.

Verse ConceptsGod Giving FreelyDisease

He has sent redemption to His people;
He has ordained His covenant forever;
Holy and awesome is His name.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAssurance, nature ofGodly ReverenceThe Eternal CovenantRedemption

O Lord, do save, we beseech You;
O Lord, we beseech You, do send prosperity!

Verse ConceptsSave Us!Success Through GodBlessings And Prosperityatheismsales

He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.

Verse ConceptsGod Controls Storms

Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
Send out Your arrows and confuse them.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfLightningGod's ArrowsScattering The PeoplesArrows

She has sent out her maidens, she calls
From the tops of the heights of the city:

A rebellious man seeks only evil,
So a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

Verse ConceptsPitilessnessRebellion against Godrebellion

To make you know the certainty of the words of truth
That you may correctly answer him who sent you?

Verse ConceptsOrderly AccountsAnswering

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,
From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersRulersTaxationPossessing Sheep

It will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineAnswered PromisesCryingThings As Signs

In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

Verse ConceptsOther Times

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller’s field.

Verse ConceptsCommanderOccupationsPoolsClean ClothesWater Channel

But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Verse ConceptsMonotonyRepulsive FoodDefecationUrinatingpoop

Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingRemnantRidicule, Objects OfSurvivors FavouredPray For UsWill God Pay Attention?

When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has come out to fight against you,” and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Verse ConceptsMessengerAfricaMessengers Sent Out

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingPay Attention O God!

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

Verse ConceptsGiftsLetters

Who is blind but My servant,
Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me,
Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?

Thus says the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“For your sake I have sent to Babylon,
And will bring them all down as fugitives,
Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRedemption, In OtSeafaringShipsFor The Sake Of God's People