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They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, CharaceristicsFirstbornBrothersBirthrights

Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father's flock.

Verse ConceptsGirlsSeven ChildrenFathers And Daughters

They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord: "Release my people in order that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content OfServanthood, And Worship Of GodWorshipping God

The Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

Verse ConceptsMiraculous SignsGod Hardening People

and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsBad ParentsExperience, of GodChildren, needs ofHistoryKnowledge, Of GodInstruction Of ChildrenParents Duty To ChildrenYou Will Know I Am The LordTeaching ChildrenTelling Of God

The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, "We are all dead!"

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceHurrying Others On

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant's son and any hired help may refresh themselves.

Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Holy Things

six of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Holy Things

This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which was counted by the order of Moses, being the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

the pure lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light;

Verse ConceptsOilOil For LampsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And he set the bread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsShowbread

The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

Verse ConceptsAbhorRejection Of God

"Then the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place under his standard.

Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelLevitesThe Middle

but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

Verse ConceptsMan Appointing

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeStandingMan AvengingDeath Of A Family Member

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divinePunishment, By GodGod As Our TeacherGod Appearing In FireHearing God's VoiceGod Speaks From Heaven

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.

Verse ConceptsMurderManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: "Turn over the men who came to you -- the ones who came to your house -- for they have come to spy on the whole land!"

Verse ConceptsPeople Made Known

In the morning you must approach in tribal order. The tribe the Lord selects must approach by clans. The clan the Lord selects must approach by families. The family the Lord selects must approach man by man.

Verse ConceptsMorningAdministration

Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Of Judah

They stood in order all around the camp. The whole army ran away; they shouted as they scrambled away.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fledarmy

Then Boaz said, "When you acquire the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of our deceased relative, in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property."

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPoverty, Attitudes Towards

She said, "Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities OfStandingThis Is Me

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened.

Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessThose Who Kept Stock

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced that his father had decided to kill David.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThrowing Spears

So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

Verse ConceptsConsecrated BreadHot ThingsHallowed

In those days the Philistines gathered their troops for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, "You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle."

Verse ConceptsFighting Together

For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant.

Verse ConceptsGod, Will OfKnowing God, Nature Ofgreatness

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHangingHope, Results Of Its AbsenceHousesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSuicideTombsPutting In OrderIndividuals going homePeople Hung To DeathPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: "For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom." Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom.

Verse ConceptsParental LoveSoft TreatmentThe King's Orders

The man replied to Joab, "Even if I were receiving a thousand pieces of silver, I would not strike the king's son! In our very presence the king gave this order to you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.'

Verse ConceptsFraudCoinageThe King's Orders

They crossed at the ford in order to help the king's household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate. Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.

Verse ConceptsBoatsProstrationBowing Before DavidFords

But the king's edict stood, despite the objections of Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king's presence in order to muster the Israelite army.

Verse ConceptsStubbornnessSelf WillCensus

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?"

Verse ConceptsThey Do Not Keep Commands

The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTKilling Named IndividualsThe Kingdom Of Solomon

So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians."

Verse ConceptsNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfSkillWagesCommerceFelling TreesCedar Wood

By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple's foundation with chiseled stone.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBuildingHousesFoundations Of Buildings

Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, "Bring her outside the temple to the guards. Put the sword to anyone who follows her." The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord's temple.

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingApproval To Kill

Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh's demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho.

Verse ConceptsTaxationTributesTaxValuation Of PeopleTax To Be Paid

The following is a record of the armed warriors who came with their leaders and joined David in Hebron in order to make David king in Saul's place, in accordance with the Lord's decree:

Verse ConceptsWeapons

O Lord, for the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing in order to reveal your greatness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Will OfKnowing God, Nature Of

This was the order in which they carried out their assigned responsibilities when they entered the Lord's temple, according to the regulations given them by their ancestor Aaron, just as the Lord God of Israel had instructed him.

All these were the sons of Heman, the king's prophet. God had promised him these sons in order to make him prestigious. God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFourteenSeers

Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the Lord our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis.

Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalOrdinancesSabbath, In OtSmells

Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, "Bring her outside the temple to the guards. Put the sword to anyone who follows her." The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord's temple.

He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God's temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.

Verse ConceptsWork, And RedemptionServiceSuccess And Hard Workimprovementprospering

So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives.

Verse ConceptsenvoyProving, Through TestingRulersTesting

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the Lord's message spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord stirred the mind of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict the following:

Verse ConceptsHuman WillProclamationsImpulsesWords To Individuals FulfilledThe First Temple

Then the leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites -- all those whose mind God had stirred -- got ready to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodPriests, Institution In Ot TimesTribes Of IsraelImpulsesMoving To A New Placejerusalem

When they came to the Lord's temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild it on its site.

Verse ConceptsFreewill OfferingHouse Of GodFree Will

We also inquired of their names in order to inform you, so that we might write the names of the men who were their leaders.

"Now if the king is so inclined, let a search be conducted in the royal archives there in Babylon in order to determine whether King Cyrus did in fact issue orders for this temple of God to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us a decision concerning this matter."

Verse ConceptsArchivesStoringSeeking For Concrete ThingsThe King's Orders

"I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes To

There were those who said, "With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive."

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

There were others who said, "We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine."

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

Then I said, "The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

Verse ConceptsReproachFear God!

But I replied, "Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? I will not go!"

Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfCourage, Examples OfNot Maintaining LifeInterlopers In The Temple

They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare me.

Verse ConceptsPraising Specific PeopleFear Of Individuals

You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

Verse ConceptsBread, Kinds OfHand Of GodMannaThirstGod Providing WaterGod Gave The Land

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamStars

"Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdisrespectChallengesIngratitudeMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom, Reasons ForUnfaithfulness, To GodCharacter Of WickedRebellion Against God, Nature OfRebellion Against God, Shown InKilling ProphetsBreaking God's Law

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances -- those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfStiffnecked PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawProud People

Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTPurifying Oneself

And day after day Mordecai used to walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem in order to learn how Esther was doing and what might happen to her.

Verse ConceptsOnce A Day

In the first month (that is, the month of Nisan), in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus' reign, pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman in order to determine a day and a month. It turned out to be the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsPurimMonth 12

The messengers scurried forth with the king's order. The edict was issued in Susa the citadel. While the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in an uproar!

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfPuzzlement

She said, "If the king is so inclined and if I have met with his approval and if the matter is agreeable to the king and if I am attractive to him, let an edict be written rescinding those recorded intentions of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote in order to destroy the Jews who are throughout all the king's provinces.

Verse ConceptsKilling Israelites

The rest of the Jews who were throughout the provinces of the king assembled in order to stand up for themselves and to have rest from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of their adversaries, but they did not confiscate their property.

Verse ConceptsFifty To Ninety ThousandJews Under ThreatHating PeoplesNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast pur (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.

Verse ConceptsKilling Israelites

Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

Verse ConceptsConfrontationGod Is Just

in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

Verse ConceptsThose Not Fearing

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

Verse ConceptsPitsDigging PitsPit Used As TrapsStaying Strong During Hard Times

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

Verse ConceptsPrisonersNot DyingDeath PreventedGod Freeing Captives

He sends his command through the earth; swiftly his order reaches its destination.

Verse ConceptsRunningRunning After GoodGod's Orders

in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingPunishmentsRevenge

in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

Verse ConceptsValuing Knowledge

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

Verse ConceptsHumbling OneselfBeing HumbleForgiving YourselfDebtBeing YourselfHumble YourselfFriendship KjvHumility And Pridehumblenesshumble

When a country is rebellious it has many princes, but by someone who is discerning and knowledgeable order is maintained.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialGovernmentCivic RighteousnessRulersWisdom, Human ImportanceUnsuitable Rulerebellionapostasy

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GodWaistsMillennial KingdomSpirit Of ChristThe Sword Of The SpiritGod Beating PeopleGod KillingChrist SpeakingGod KillsRighteousness Of ChristStriking People With A Stafffairness

The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan's fortresses.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodKingdomsGod's HandDestruction Of StrongholdsGod's Hands Stretched Out

For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky -- he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited -- "I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Verse ConceptsemptinessEarth, Description OfDivine PurposesGod, The CreatorGod, The LordGod, Uniqueness OfMonotheismCreation Of The Physical HeavensOne GodInhabitationNo Other Is GodEmpty By NatureCreationEarthThe EarthGod's CreationSolar EclipseNot Being AloneEarth Being Fixed And Immovable

There were two copies of the deed of purchase. One was sealed and contained the order of transfer and the conditions of purchase. The other was left unsealed.

Verse ConceptsReal Estate

Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city in order to capture it. War, starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. Lord, you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.

Verse ConceptsAttackingActual Attacks On JerusalemGod Will Cause Defeat

For I, the Lord, affirm that I will soon give the order and bring them back to this city. They will fight against it and capture it and burn it down. I will also make the towns of Judah desolate so that there will be no one living in them."'"

Verse ConceptsWasteEmpty CitiesBurning JerusalemActual Attacks On JerusalemCapturing Cities

Then the king gave Ebed Melech the Ethiopian the following order: "Take thirty men with you from here and go pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies."

Verse ConceptsDungeonsHuman Authority, Nature OfThirtyNamed Prophets Of The Lord

This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. (Seraiah was a quartermaster.)

Verse ConceptsKings ExiledYears Of ZedekiahNamed Prophets Of The Lord

We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.'

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodEstrangementSeparation From GodGod Opposes IdolatryStrong Delusion

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

Verse ConceptsThose Subjected To PeopleHumbling Oneself

But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them.

Verse ConceptsFalse Ways