196 occurrences in 11 translations

'Summoned' in the Bible

Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me! Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningThose Who Did Not Tell

When Abram heard that his {relative} was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen [of them], and he went in pursuit up to Dan.

Verse ConceptsSkillViolenceWarfare, Strategies InAbraham, Testing And VictoryBodyguardsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveBorn In One's HouseOvercoming Adversitytraining

because Abraham kept saying about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister," King Abimelech of Gerar summoned them and took Sarah into his household.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersMisrepresentationTaking Other PeopleSiblingsRelationship TroublesSportssarahrejuvenation

So Abimelech got up early the next morning, summoned all his servants, and told them all these things. The men became terrified.

Verse ConceptsMorningSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfGiving InformationThose Who Rose EarlyFearing Other People

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleTelling What People Said

When morning came, he was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByMorningRestlessnessWisdom, Human NatureMagiciansWise MenKings SummoningNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.

Verse ConceptsBedsGay Marriage

Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The FutureOthers SummoningTogetherness

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenKings SummoningWhy Do You Do This?

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Ask Yahweh to remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningPray For UsPraying For SinnersTaking Animals

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the country.”

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

So Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time! The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are guilty.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you!

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfHasty ActionKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship Yahweh. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningWorship God!

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLambsMoses, Significance OfKilling SacrificesOthers SummoningSheep And GoatsThe Elders Gathered

He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersLeaders, PoliticalOld Age, Attitudes ToOthers SummoningThe Elders Gathered

The Lord came down on Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain. Then the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.

Verse ConceptsGoing Up MountainsGod Going Down

So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the Lord had placed wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him, to come to the work and do it.

Verse ConceptsImpulsesSkilled PeopleOthers Summoning

Then the Lord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:

Verse ConceptsTent Of MeetingTents

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestDay 8The Elders Gathered

Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”

Verse ConceptsCousinsCamps, Unclean ThingsCarrying Dead Bodies

These were those summoned of the assembly, princes of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Verse ConceptsMen

and they summoned the entire community on [the] first day of the second month. And they registered themselves among their clans according to {their families}, according to [the] number of names from {those twenty years old} and above individually,

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling IsraelMonth 2Family First

Then the Lord descended in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them came forward,

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRevelation, In OtGod Appearing At The Doorway

and they rose up against Moses, with two hundred and fifty men of the children of Israel, princes of the assembly, summoned to the council, men of renown;

Verse ConceptsTwo Hundred And SomeRosesrebellion

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come up.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community.

Verse ConceptsAssembling At The Doorway

Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

Verse ConceptsImpatienceAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsAnger, Sinful ExamplesAssembling Israel

Then Balak became furious with Balaam, struck his hands together, and said to him, “I summoned you to put a curse on my enemies, but instead, you have blessed them these three times.

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanCommunicating Three TimesClappingBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelNamed People Angry With Others

and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, summoned of the assembly, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the band of Korah, when they contended against Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFighting One Another

On the first day there shall be a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work that day.

Verse ConceptsConvocationsNo Work On Feast Days

On the seventh day you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

Verse ConceptsConvocationsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7No Work On Feast Days

‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new grain offering to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksCelebrationsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodConvocationsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Cereal OfferingsFirst fruits

‘On the first day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work. It will be for you a day of blowing the trumpets (the shophar, ram’s horn).

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TrumpetsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodMonthNew Year, TheAutumnTrumpetYearsConvocationsMonth 7Trumpets For CelebrationNo Work On Feast DaysMonths

‘Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly [for the Day of Atonement]; and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a disciplineFasting, Nature OfHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodMonthMortificationAutumnWork, And RestAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7No Work On Feast DaysHumbling Oneself

‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall observe a Feast [of Booths] to the Lord for seven days.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TabernaclesCelebrationsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodMonthAutumnWork, And RestThe Number FifteenMonth 7Seven DaysNo Work On Feast Dayscelebrating

Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.

Verse ConceptsCongregationdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleHearingPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his entire land.

Verse ConceptsLooking At God's Works

Moses then summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land the Lord swore to give to their fathers. You will enable them to take possession of it.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalFighting TogetherStrength Of PeopleGod Gave The LandBe Courageous!Be Strong!Courage And Strength

So Joshua summoned the 12 men he had selected from the Israelites, one man for each tribe,

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets in front of the ark of the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

Then all the troops of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other Places

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

Verse ConceptsBetrayal, Example OfPretendingNeighboursPeople From Far Away

When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

Verse ConceptsFeetNecksSubjectionCare Of FeetThose Subjected To People

Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh

So Joshua summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and said to them, “I am old, getting on in years,

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersInfirmities

Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersRenewal, Of People Of GodAssembling Israel

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.

Verse ConceptsCursing Israel

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Hasn’t the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you: ‘Go, deploy the troops on Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 men from the Naphtalites and Zebulunites?

Verse ConceptsDeborahTens Of Thousands

Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; 10,000 men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.

Verse ConceptsFighting TogetherTens Of Thousands

Sisera summoned all his 900 iron chariots and all the people who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSeven To Nine HundredIron ObjectsRiver Kishon

He sent messengers throughout Manasseh and summoned them to follow him as well. He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him.

Verse ConceptsMessenger

The men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.

Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned and they took the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

The Ammonites were summoned and they encamped in Gilead. The Israelis assembled together and encamped in Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsAssembly

Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you.”

Verse ConceptsArsonActing AloneBurning People

When they really started celebrating, they said, "Call for Samson so he can entertain us!" So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

the Philistines summoned the priests and the diviners and pleaded, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we can send it back to its place.”

And all Israel heard the news, “Saul has attacked the Philistine garrison, and Israel is now repulsive to the Philistines.” Then the troops were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsOffenceSmellsHating Peoples

Then Saul summoned the troops and counted them at Telaim: 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men from Judah.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersCensusTens Of ThousandsTwo Hundred Thousand And MorePeople Of Judah

Then Jesse summoned Abinadab and brought him before Samuel, and he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

Verse ConceptsRejecting People

Now the words which David had spoken were heard and they reported [them] {to} Saul, and he summoned him.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these words. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he did before.

Verse ConceptsGiving InformationIn Men's Presence

Then Saul summoned all the troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.

Verse ConceptsPeople Attacking Their Own

Samuel told Saul, "Why did you disturb me by bringing me up?" Saul said, "I'm in great distress. The Philistines are waging war against me. God has departed from me and won't answer me anymore, either by messages written by the hand of the prophets or by dreams. So I've summoned you to tell me what I should do."

Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

So Achish summoned David and told him, “As the Lord lives, you are an honorable man. I think it is good to have you working with me in the camp, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the leaders don’t think you are reliable.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGoing Out And Coming In

Then David summoned one of his servants and said, “Come here and kill him!” The servant struck him, and he died.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

There was a servant of Saul’s family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”“I am your servant,” he replied.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyIs It Really?

Then the king summoned Saul’s attendant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and his family.

Verse ConceptsGiving To Others

Messengers told David what had happened, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown again; then you may come back."

Verse ConceptsFacial HairHair GrowingWaiting Till Marriage

So David summoned Joab, and told him, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDrunkenness, Examples OfPeople Making Drunk

{About two full years later}, Absalom's shearers were in Baal Hazor, which [is] near Ephraim, and Absalom summoned all the sons of the king.

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTwo Years

Joab went to the king and told him. So David summoned Absalom, who came to the king and bowed down with his face to the ground before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingReinstatementKissesBowing Before DavidKings Summoning

The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelZeal

Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but don’t leave there and go anywhere else.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Houses

So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, ‘On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will obey.’

Verse ConceptsAssentingKings SummoningPeople Bound By Oaths

They summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyCoronationsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israelalignment

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Examples OfAssembling IsraelOne Hundred Thousand And MoreReinstating PeopleCivil War

And king Asa hath summoned all Judah -- there is none exempt -- and they lift up the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha hath built, and king Asa buildeth with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsExemptCarrying Other LoadsWood And Stone

So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth InOfficersPalacesIndividuals Fearing GodKings Summoning

So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel.

The king of Israel summoned all the leaders of the land and said, "Notice how this man is looking for trouble. Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him."

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

The king of Israel summoned an official and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah."

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Then the king of Israel said, “Oh no, the Lord has summoned three kings, only to hand them over to Moab.”

Verse ConceptsThree MenGiven Into One's HandsGod Will Cause Defeat

However, Elisha said to King Joram of Israel, “We have nothing in common. Go to the prophets of your father and your mother!”But the king of Israel replied, “No, because it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.”

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

All Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, from the youngest to the oldest, were summoned and took their stand at the border.

He told his attendant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite." So when he had summoned her, she stood in front of him.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and then come back.”

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

This made the king of Syria upset. So he summoned his advisers and said to them, "One of us must be helping the king of Israel."

Verse ConceptsTurning Against Men

Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild and told him, "Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

Verse ConceptsBeltsSons Of The ProphetsPreparing For ActionNamed Prophets Of The Lord

In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians and the royal bodyguard. He met with them in the Lord's temple. He made an agreement with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord's temple. Then he showed them the king's son.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantCommanderMercenariesOaths, HumanCovenant RelationshipsPeople Made Known

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