'Insisted' in the Bible

"No," he insisted, "but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable."

One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

But Elisha replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you." Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.

Naaman said, "Please accept two talents of silver. He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.

But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all of them said the same thing.

And after about an hour still another insisted, "Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean."

but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.