'Sent' in the Bible

Then they sent word throughout Judah and Jerusalem to everyone who had returned from the exile, to gather together in Jerusalem.

With the queen sitting beside him, the king said to me, "How long will your journey be and when will you return?" So it pleased the king and he sent me, and I set for him an appointed time.

Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

And he saith to them, 'Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all of his officials, and against all the people of his land, because you knew they acted arrogantly against your people. So you established your name with them, as it remains to this day.

You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them.You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths,and You gave them water for their thirst.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sent for the Levites wherever they lived and brought them to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king which was sent by the chamberlains; and the king was very wroth, and his fury burned in him.

For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

And Mordecai, having knowledge of their purpose, sent word of it to Esther the queen; and Esther gave the news to the king in Mordecai's name.

Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

A copy of the writing, to be made public in every part of the kingdom, was sent out to all the peoples, so that they might be ready when that day came.

So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

Then Esther sent Hathach to say to Mordecai:

It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.

Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.

Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:

Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.

And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the {power} of their transgression.

If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

“When he fills his belly,God will send His fierce anger on himAnd will rain it upon him while he is eating.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

buried them in the dust together, and sent them bound to that secret place,

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,

Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.

He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.

A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth." To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when Saul sent men to watch the house in order to kill him.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

so that manna rained down on them for food and he sent them the grain of heaven.

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.

He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

He sent His burning anger against them:fury, indignation, and calamity—a band of deadly messengers.

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Then he sent his might into captivity and his glory into the control of the adversary.

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.

He sent hail instead of rain, and lightning throughout their land.

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.