'Refuse' in the Bible

“Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.

For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

But the hide of the bull and all its flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse,

But the bull and its hide and its flesh and its refuse he burned in the fire outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

But the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken outside the camp, and they shall burn their hides, their flesh, and their refuse in the fire.

Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.

The handle also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the refuse came out.

Now I am making one request of you; do not refuse me.” And she said to him, “Speak.”

Then he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

Then she said, “I am making one small request of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Please observe and see how this man is looking for trouble; for he sent to me for my wives and my children and my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”

And I issued a decree that any man who violates this edict, a timber shall be drawn from his house and he shall be impaled on it and his house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this.

So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Well and on to the Refuse Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall to the Refuse Gate.

Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of Beth-haccherem repaired the Refuse Gate. He built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars.

Then I had the leaders of Judah come up on top of the wall, and I appointed two great choirs, the first proceeding to the right on top of the wall toward the Refuse Gate.

He perishes forever like his refuse;Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me;It is oil upon the head;Do not let my head refuse it,For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.

The violence of the wicked will drag them away,Because they refuse to act with justice.

The desire of the sluggard puts him to death,For his hands refuse to work;

Two things I asked of You,Do not refuse me before I die:

All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

“But if you refuse and rebel,You will be devoured by the sword.”Truly, the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people,And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.For all this His anger is not spent,But His hand is still stretched out.

He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

For this is a rebellious people, false sons,Sons who refuse to listenTo the instruction of the Lord;

But the wicked are like the tossing sea,For it cannot be quiet,And its waters toss up refuse and mud.

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,Turned away in continual apostasy?They hold fast to deceit,They refuse to return.

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “You shall surely drink!

You have made us mere offscouring and refuseIn the midst of the peoples.

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

“I will lay your flesh on the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your refuse.

So as to buy the helpless for moneyAnd the needy for a pair of sandals,And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

“Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

But refuse to put younger widows on the list, for when they feel sensual desires in disregard of Christ, they want to get married,

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.