14 occurrences

'Commanded' in the Bible

You are to come up after him, and he is to come in and sit on my throne. He is the one who is to become king in my place; he is the one I have commanded to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelKings Of All Israel Or Judah

Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in Solomon’s hand.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTKilling Named IndividualsThe Kingdom Of Solomon

The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBuildingHousesFoundations Of Buildings

so that He causes us to be devoted to Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, which He commanded our ancestors.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofethics, and graceHardness Of HeartWanting To Keep The Commandments

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Good Parental ExamplesKeep The Commandments!

He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what the Lord had commanded.

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsThey Do Not Keep Commands

Then the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep My covenant and My statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

for this is what I was commanded by the word of the Lord: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or go back the way you came.’”

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you rebelled against the command of the Lord and did not keep the command that the Lord your God commanded you—

For David did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodSin, Universality OfPeople Who Did Right

You are to drink from the wadi. I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.”

Verse ConceptsRavensBirds, Types Of BirdsDivine DirectionDrinking WaterBrooks

So he did what the Lord commanded. Elijah left and lived by the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToFrugalityBeyond JordanBrooks

“Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.”

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalMission, Of IsraelWork, Divine And HumanDivine DirectionWidows

The men of his city, the elders and nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had commanded them, as was written in the letters she had sent them.

Verse Conceptsjezebel

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