10 occurrences in 13 translations

'Request' in the Bible

Elijah replied, "That's a difficult request! If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don't, it will not happen."

Verse ConceptsHard TasksSeeing People

And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

Verse ConceptsGratitudeRelativesDoing One's Work

Then she said, Did I make a request to my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not give me false words?

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfLying

When the king of Israel read the letter, he ripped his clothes and cried out, "Am I God? Can I kill and give life? Is this man sending me a request to heal a man's leprosy? Let's think about this he's looking for a reason to start a fight with me!"

Verse ConceptsLiteracyGod Giving LifeGod KillingThose Who Tore ClothesGod In Relation To ManGod KillsMan's Relation To God

Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesMiracles Of ElishaGod BlindingBlindnessEnemy Attackssyriagroupsarmy

And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.

The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, "Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now."

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsGiving Back

So the king told Hazael, "Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

Verse ConceptsMan Of GodIllness

The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request; he attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people to Kir and executed Rezin.

Verse ConceptsExiled ForeignersKilling KingsCapturing Cities

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בּחר 
Bachar 
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