'Exactly' in the Bible
So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship Yahweh your God,” Pharaoh said. “But exactly who will be going?”
Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
When a foreigner resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations.
He answered, “Shouldn’t I say exactly what the Lord puts in my mouth?”
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.
The Lord will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
The Lord has done exactly what He said through me: The Lord has torn the kingship out of your hand and given it to your neighbor David.
So David did exactly as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.
Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the king’s sons have come! It’s exactly like your servant said.”
Go to the king and speak these words to him.” Then Joab told her exactly what to say.
The king asked, “Did Joab put you up to all this?”The woman answered. “As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or left from all my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave orders to me; he told your servant exactly what to say.
just as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne in my place, that is exactly what I will do this very day.”
So David did exactly as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.
The royal scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded. It was intended for the royal satraps, the governors of each of the provinces, and the officials of each ethnic group and written for each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the royal signet ring.
On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is, the month Sivan), the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?
The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and placed him before them. >