32 Bible Verses about Others Summoning

Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,

Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover lamb.

So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him.

Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful person in whom the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to perform it.

Then Moses sent a summons to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, “We will not come up.

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Then he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, lie down again.” So he went and lay down.

The Lord called yet again, “Samuel!” So Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he answered, “I did not call, my son, lie down again.”

So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli discerned that the Lord was calling the boy.

Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.”

Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.

Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. So he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent for you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me still to be there.”’ Now therefore, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him put me to death.”

Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say.”

Then they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Then he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he had called her, she stood before him.

He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

He called Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

In the evening she would go in and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not again go in to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

Then summoning him, his lord *said to him, ‘You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

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

And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.”

When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

And he gave her his hand and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.