32 Bible Verses about Others Summoning

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women.

Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.

Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.

So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the Lord had placed wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him, to come to the work and do it.

Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

“I didn’t call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.

Once again the Lord called, “Samuel!”

Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

“I didn’t call, my son,” he replied. “Go back and lie down.”

Once again, for the third time, the Lord called Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the boy.

but Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son.”

“Here I am,” answered Samuel.

Pilate was surprised that He was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether He had already died.

Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but Joab was unwilling to come. So he sent again, a second time, but he still wouldn’t come.

“Look,” Absalom explained to Joab, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? I’d be better off if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king. If I am guilty, let him kill me.”

Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite also. Let’s hear what he has to say as well.”

They summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:

He ordered his attendant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she stood before him.

“Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.

Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” He called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the supervision of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She never went to the king again, unless he desired her and summoned her by name.

The more they called them,
the more they departed from Me.
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

“Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

Then His mother and His brothers came, and standing outside, they sent word to Him and called Him.

So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.’

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.